Postdoctoral position in Switzerland (USI, Lugano)
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--===============5907640842155495203== Content-Language: en-US Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_000_GV1PPF830C4FEB8AA0B641DE5E9055D7C3BF2F12GV1PPF830C4FEB8_" --_000_GV1PPF830C4FEB8AA0B641DE5E9055D7C3BF2F12GV1PPF830C4FEB8_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable One fully funded postdoc position in NLP, for two years, renewable for anot= her 2 years at the USI NLP Lab, in Lugano, Switzerland, as part of the SATU= RNA project. SATURNA (https://www.saturna.ch/) is a large-scale four-year project funded= by the Swiss National Science Foundation. It is an inter-disciplinary coll= aboration between the University of Bern, EPFL, Idiap Research Institute an= d the National University of Singapore, with specialists in NLP, graph deep= learning, knowledge-enhanced AI, computational biology and translational s= cience. The role of the team at USI is to draw parallels between text sequences and= RNA sequences, thereby leveraging advances made in the NLP field to learn = informative representations of RNA sequences. Vice versa, handling the intr= icacies of RNA, such as extremely long-distance dependencies, context-depen= dency, structure, function etc. sheds new light on assumptions made in NLP = models, that will be tested for their applicability on language. The postdoc will work under the scientific supervision of Prof. Lonneke van= der Plas (https://usi.to/bkks) and will be offered the possibility to work= in a fast-growing, cross-institutional, dynamic research team. The postdoc= is expected to collaborate with the PhD students in the USI NLP lab that a= re working on a wide variety of topics in NLP, both at USI and the EPFL, as= well as with the researchers in the SATURNA project, that includes work on= interpretability and foundations of transformer-based language models, and= benchmarking these. Screening will start on July 13th 2026, but the positions will remain open = until filled. More information and application link here: https://content.usi.ch/sites/default/files/storage/attachments/ials/ials-id= sia-postdoc-saturna-2026.pdf<https://content.usi.ch/sites/default/files/sto= rage/attachments/ials/ials-idsia-postdoc-saturna-2026.pdf?_gl=3D1*1msdzem*_= gcl_au*NTI1MjEzNjk1LjE3NzYwNjQwNjguMTMxMTEyNzU0NC4xNzgxMDE4ODEyLjE3ODEwMTg4= MTE.*_ga*Nzg0NDY0OTY5LjE3NTE5NzY1MzQ.*_ga_89Y0EEKVWP*czE3ODMzNDI1NDkkbzMyMi= RnMCR0MTc4MzM0MjU1NCRqNTUkbDAkaDE3NzM2ODYzMjU.> -- Prof. Lonneke van der Plas Associate Professor of Natural Language Processing USI Universit=E0 della Svizzera italiana https://usi.to/bkks --_000_GV1PPF830C4FEB8AA0B641DE5E9055D7C3BF2F12GV1PPF830C4FEB8_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html> <head> <meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-= 1"> </head> <body> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-tran= sform: none;"> <span style=3D"font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:= 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br> </span><span style=3D"font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, &qu= ot;Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Oxygen, Cantarell, "Fira Sans"= , "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif, &q= uot;Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Sym= bol"; font-size: 14px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); background-color: rg= b(255, 255, 255);">One fully funded postdoc position in NLP, for two years, </span><span style=3D= "font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Ro= boto, Ubuntu, Oxygen, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans&qu= ot;, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji= ", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size:= 14px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9);">renewable for another 2 years at the USI NLP Lab, in Lugano, Switzerland, as part of= the SATURNA project.</span></div> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system= -ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Oxygen, Cantarell, "Fira Sa= ns", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-s= erif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Sego= e UI Symbol"; font-size: 14px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9);"> <br> </div> <div style=3D"font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe= UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Oxygen, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "= Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif, "Appl= e Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"= ;; font-size: 14px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9);"> SATURNA (https://www.saturna.ch/) is a large-scale four-year project funded= by the Swiss National Science Foundation. It is an inter-disciplinary coll= aboration between the University of Bern, EPFL, Idiap Research Institute an= d the National University of Singapore, with specialists in NLP, graph deep learning, knowledge-enhanced AI, compu= tational biology and translational science.</div> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system= -ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Oxygen, Cantarell, "Fira Sa= ns", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-s= erif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Sego= e UI Symbol"; font-size: 14px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9);"> <br> </div> <div style=3D"font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe= UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Oxygen, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "= Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif, "Appl= e Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"= ;; font-size: 14px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9);"> The role of the team at USI is to draw parallels between text sequences and= RNA sequences, thereby leveraging advances made in the NLP field to learn = informative representations of RNA sequences. Vice versa, handling the intr= icacies of RNA, such as extremely long-distance dependencies, context-dependency, structure, function etc. s= heds new light on assumptions made in NLP models, that will be tested for t= heir applicability on language. </div> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system= -ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Oxygen, Cantarell, "Fira Sa= ns", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-s= erif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Sego= e UI Symbol"; font-size: 14px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9);"> <br> </div> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system= -ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Oxygen, Cantarell, "Fira Sa= ns", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-s= erif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Sego= e UI Symbol"; font-size: 14px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9);"> The postdoc will work under the scientific supervision of Prof. Lonneke van= der Plas (https://usi.to/bkks) and will be offered the possibility to work= in a fast-growing, cross-institutional, dynamic research team. The postdoc= is expected to collaborate with the PhD students in the USI NLP lab that are working on a wide variety of = topics in NLP, both at USI and the EPFL, as well as with the researchers in= the SATURNA project, that includes work on interpretability and foundation= s of transformer-based language models, and benchmarking these.</div> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system= -ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Oxygen, Cantarell, "Fira Sa= ns", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-s= erif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Sego= e UI Symbol"; font-size: 14px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9);"> <br> </div> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-tran= sform: none;"> <span style=3D"font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, "Sego= e UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Oxygen, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "= ;Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif, "App= le Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol&quo= t;; font-size: 14px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); background-color: rgb(255, = 255, 255);">S</span><span style=3D"font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, s= ystem-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Oxygen, Cantarell, "Fi= ra Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, s= ans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "= ;Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 14px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); backgro= und-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-transform: none;">creening will start on July 13th 2026, but the positions will remain open until fil= led.</span><span style=3D"font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;= font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br> <br> </span><span style=3D"font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, &qu= ot;Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Oxygen, Cantarell, "Fira Sans"= , "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif, &q= uot;Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Sym= bol"; font-size: 14px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); background-color: rg= b(255, 255, 255); text-transform: none;">More information and application link here: </span></div> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-tran= sform: none; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe = UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Oxygen, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "D= roid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple= Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"= ; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <a href=3D"https://content.usi.ch/sites/default/files/storage/attachments/i= als/ials-idsia-postdoc-saturna-2026.pdf?_gl=3D1*1msdzem*_gcl_au*NTI1MjEzNjk= 1LjE3NzYwNjQwNjguMTMxMTEyNzU0NC4xNzgxMDE4ODEyLjE3ODEwMTg4MTE.*_ga*Nzg0NDY0O= TY5LjE3NTE5NzY1MzQ.*_ga_89Y0EEKVWP*czE3ODMzNDI1NDkkbzMyMiRnMCR0MTc4MzM0MjU1= NCRqNTUkbDAkaDE3NzM2ODYzMjU." data-outlook-id=3D"5c78e807-bd94-43a9-9d69-7d= 358474d1af">https://content.usi.ch/sites/default/files/storage/attachments/= ials/ials-idsia-postdoc-saturna-2026.pdf</a><br> <span style=3D"font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:= 12pt;"><br> </span></div> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-se= rif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div style=3D"color: inherit; background-color: inherit;" id=3D"ms-outlook-= mobile-signature"> <div class=3D"MsoNormal">-- </div> <div class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"font-size: 10pt;">Prof. Lonneke van der P= las</div> <div class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"font-size: 10pt;">Associate Professor of = Natural Language Processing</div> <div class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"font-size: 10pt;">USI Universit=E0 della = Svizzera italiana</div> <div class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; = color: black;"> <span style=3D"background-color: white;"><a href=3D"https://usi.to/bkks" da= ta-outlook-id=3D"0952994b-5a1b-4b25-83d0-777d768bac88">https://usi.to/bkks<= /a></span></div> </div> </body> </html> --_000_GV1PPF830C4FEB8AA0B641DE5E9055D7C3BF2F12GV1PPF830C4FEB8_-- --===============5907640842155495203== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Corpora mailing list -- [email protected] https://list.elra.info/mailman3/postorius/lists/corpora.list.elra.info/ To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] --===============5907640842155495203==--