Jobs


The LIIR lab of the Department of Computer Science at KU Leuven, Belgium currently has:

Currently no open PhD positions. Please consult this Web page regularly.

If you are interested in a postdoctoral fellowship and have an outstanding publication record in the areas of natural language processing, multimodal processing or machine learning, please contact sien.moens@cs.kuleuven.be

The LIIR lab occasionally hires computer science interns if you have the highest grades.

The current open position is specified in more detail below:

Postdoctoral position in Machine Reading Comprehension and Natural Language Understanding

We are looking for a colleague with expertise and a large interest in machine reading comprehension and natural language understanding. The research is financed by the ERC Advanced Grant CALCULUS (Commonsense and Anticipation enriched Learning of Continuous representations sUpporting Language UnderStanding - Horizon 2020 - 788506 - https://calculus-project.ei).


The postdoctoral fellow will perform his or her research at the Language Intelligence and Information Retrieval lab https://liir.cs.kuleuven.be, which is a member of the KU Leuven ELLIS Unit and the KU Leuven AI Institute. The European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) promotes basic research in machine learning and modern AI (https://ellis.eu).


Profile

  • The successful candidate has (or are near completion of) a PhD in Computer Science (or a related field)
  • He or she has excellent knowledge of the fundamental principles, algorithms and methods of machine learning and in particular of learning representations.
  • You have an outstanding track record of publications in relevant international peer-reviewed A ranked conferences and in journals with high impact factor in the fields of machine learning and natural language processing.

We Offer

  • A postdoctoral position for 2 years (can be prolonged).
  • A competitive wage and yearly budget to attend conferences.
  • The opportunity for personal development beyond research including the supervision of master and PhD students and the possibility to contribute to teaching.
  • A team of colleagues of around 20 high-performing PhD and postdoctoral researchers that regularly publish at top AI venues.
  • A team of colleagues that regularly holds (online) team events such as food tasting, sport events and board game nights.
  • A monthly journal club to discuss novel research or present your own research. Additionally, we also organise a bi-weekly reading club to read specific papers in depth.
  • Access to our deep learning cluster which contains the latest GPU hardware such as multiple RTX 3090 graphics cards.

About Leuven and Belgium

  • Leuven is a bustling city with many international students and expats and has been voted to be the most innovative city of Europe in 2020.
  • Leuven is a 20-minute commute to Brussels, the capital of Europe.
  • Belgium contains a vast cultural heritage such as the historic center of Bruges, the Antwerp train station (voted to be one of the most beautiful train stations in the world), and many more.
  • Belgium is known for its exquisite cuisine, beer, pastry, candy,
  • Belgium is located at the center of Europe! You can easily visit Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin, London, from Belgium by train or car.

    • Interested

    If interested, please apply by March 15, 2022 by sending your CV and motivation letter to Sien Moens: sien.moens@cs.kuleuven.be.The position will be filled as soon as a suitable candidate is found.