PhD Candidate - Knowledge-Driven Natural Language Generation for Combating Hateful Misinformation Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Italy

Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Italy is advertising a PhD Candidate position on Human-centred Evaluation Frameworks for Multilingual Technologies . The project focuses on a major challenge in modern natural language processing: how to evaluate systems not just by leaderboard performance, but by their real-world usefulness, fairness, reliability, and responsiveness to diverse user needs. The PhD will treat evaluation methodology as a research topic in its own right. Rather than only improving models...

AImageLab at Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (Unimore) and the ELLIS Unit Modena are announcing several upcoming PhD positions in AI. The research themes include next-generation multimodal LLMs, with work on architectures, training, and reasoning capabilities; AI safety and trustworthiness, including robustness, alignment, and reliable multimodal systems; and embodied AI and world models, focusing on perception, planning, and interaction in physical and simulated environments. S...

The University of Trento and the HiCREST Laboratory invite applications for a PhD student position in efficient and reliable AI inference . The project is focused on AI accelerator design and use, inference optimization , and energy-efficient deep learning , with particular attention to transformer-based models. Research topics include quantization , sparsification , and pruning to reduce computational cost, memory footprint, and energy consumption while studying the effects on accuracy , runtim...

University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE) has announced PhD admissions for the XLII Cycle (Academic Year 2026/2027) in two doctoral programmes: Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and the Doctorate of National Interest in Religious Studies (DREST) . The ICT call is the second edition of the application notice for doctoral study in areas related to computer science , information technology , and communication systems . The DREST call is for doctoral research in religious studi...

Post-doc assignment holders in Information Processing Systems at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, under the supervision of Prof. Diego Calvanese . The position is part of the project Explanations and Abstraction in Data Representation (ExpADa) and focuses on foundational and applied research in abstraction and explanation for data and knowledge representation formalisms. The research scope includes conceptual and semantic models , ontologies , database schemas , and their combinations, with...