Postdoc Position On Explainable Nlp for Biomedical

Vor 2 Tagen

Martigny, Schweiz Reasoning & Explainable AI Vollzeit

**About Idiap**
- Idiap is an independent, not-for-profit, research institute recognized and funded by the Swiss Federal Government, the State of Valais, and the City of Martigny, and is academically affiliated with EPFL and University of Geneva._
- Idiap is located in the town of Martigny in Valais, a scenic region in the south of Switzerland, surrounded by the highest mountains of Europe, and offering exceptional quality of life, exciting recreational activities, including hiking, climbing and skiing, as well as varied cultural activities. It is within close proximity to Lausanne and Geneva. Although Idiap is located in the French part of Switzerland, English is the official working language. Free French lessons are also provided on a complimentary basis._

**Job description**

In this project, we will focus on the construction of an explainable Natural Language Inference infrastructure to support domain experts in the discovery of new antibiotics. The project aims to develop models for complex scientific inference over multiple data modalities (text and molecular structures).

This is an exciting opportunity for joining a project which integrates and extends the state-of-the-art in explainable scientific inference to address a real-world problem in biomedicine.

Appointment for the position is for 18 months (with the perspective of renewal depending on funding availability). Starting date is as soon as possible.

**Sought profile**
**Essential**:

- hold a Ph.D. degree in computer science, bioinfirmatics or related fields (or close to completion)
- have a background in natural language processing, machine learning or bioinformatics, evidenced by high-quality publications
- previous project experience in developing complex deep learning based models (e.g. in NLP or Computer Vision)
- solid English communication (scientific writing and speaking)
- confident in Python programming

**Optional**:

- Pytorch experience
- a background in explainability applied to machine learning will be considered a plus.

Positions will remain open until they have been filled. All queries related to the advertised position can be sent to

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