Research Fellow – Computer Science (NLP & AI)

About the role

The College of Computing & Data Science at NTU is seeking a Research Fellow in Computer Science to develop a software platform supporting Singapore’s Smart Nation initiatives.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement NLP algorithms and models for semantic analysis, including topic modeling, embeddings, named‑entity recognition, coreference resolution, parsing and multilingual translation.
• Apply NLP techniques to knowledge and information extraction tasks.
• Conduct translational research to scale state‑of‑the‑art solutions for real‑world challenges.
• Produce documentation, scientific reports and publications.
• Mentor junior staff members.

Required profile

• PhD in Computer Science.
• Minimum five years of software development experience (candidates with relevant project experience may also be considered).
• Strong research background in NLP and a passion for AI‑related innovations.
• Proficiency in Python and relevant research libraries.
• Experience with large‑scale text processing and analytics.
• Demonstrated record of publications; multilingual translation experience is a plus.

Required skills

• Python programming.
• Natural language processing (NLP) techniques.
• Topic modeling, embeddings, named‑entity recognition, coreference resolution, parsing.
• Multilingual translation.
• Large‑scale text processing and analytics.