Research Assistant/Research Associate/Research Fellow

Research Assistant/Research Associate/Research Fellow (Natural Language Processing) page is loadedResearch Assistant/Research Associate/Research Fellow (Natural Language Processing) Apply locations NTU Main Campus, Singapore time type Full time posted on Posted Today job requisition id R

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering is one of the founding Schools of the Nanyang Technological University. Built on a culture of excellence, the School is renowned for its high academic standards and research. With over 3,000 undergraduates students and 2,000 graduate students it is one of the largest EEE schools in the world and ranks 4th in the field of Electrical & Electronic Engineering in the 2025 QS World University Rankings by Subjects.

Today, the School has become one of the world’s largest engineering schools that nurtures competent engineers and researchers. Each year, the School graduates over a thousand students who are ready to take on great ambitions and challenges.

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Our team is seeking to hire a talented researcher in natural language processing and large language models to work with a team from multiple disciplines of machine learning and artificial intelligence to develop multimodal large language models with improved memory/sample/time efficiency in training and testing.

Key Responsibilities:

The Researcher will work on a project to conduct research on the development of multimodal large language models. The roles of this position include:

• Development of algorithms to improve memory/sample/time efficiency of LLM training.

• Development of a workable prototype system with capabilities such as conversational information retrieval, multimodal sense making, question answering, and chain-of-thoughts.

• Publication of papers in top tier conferences and journals

• Collaboration with team members and funding agency to ensure timely and quality deliverables.

• Co-supervision of MSc and Final Year Project students involved in this project.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor/Master/PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering/Computer Engineering field in computer science, or related field.

• Strong expertise in natural language processing (NLP) and large language models (LLM)

• Over 1-year research experience in the above required areas

• Excellent publication track record on top tier conferences/journals

• Proficiency in programming language Python

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

We regret to inform that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

NTU is also home to world-class autonomous institutes – the National Institute of Education, S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Earth Observatory of Singapore, and Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering – and various leading research centres such as the Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute (NEWRI) and Energy Research Institute @ NTU ( ).

Ranked amongst the world’s top universities by QS, NTU has also been named the world’s top young university for the past seven years. The University’s main campus is frequently listed among the Top 15 most beautiful university campuses in the world and has 57 Green Mark-certified (equivalent to LEED-certified) buildings, of which 95% are certified Green Mark Platinum. Apart from its main campus, NTU also has a campus in Novena, Singapore’s healthcare district.

Under the NTU Smart Campus vision, the University harnesses the power of digital technology and tech-enabled solutions to support better learning and living experiences, the discovery of new knowledge, and the sustainability of resources.