PhD Position in Foundation Models and Efficient LLM Training at the University of St. Gallen University of St. Gallen in Switzerland

PhD position at the Institute of Computer Science (ICS-HSG) , University of St.Gallen , Switzerland, in the DS-NLP Lab with Prof. Dr. Siegfried Handschuh. The project focuses on foundation models and efficient LLM training , including training dynamics of large language models, scaling behavior, optimization, generalization, token weighting strategies, dataset construction, and large-scale data processing. The role also includes teaching support and supervision of student projects and theses. Ap...

University of Vienna is advertising a University assistant Praedoc position in the Faculty of Psychology , within the Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods of Psychology. This is a pre-doctoral opening for candidates interested in psychology , cognitive science , neuroscience , computer science , statistics , and computational linguistics . The role focuses on research and teaching in the application of computer-based methods to psychological and clinical fields, especially large languag...

Cardiff NLP at Cardiff University is advertising a Postdoc / Research Associate position connected to Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLMs) as part of Jose Camacho Collados ’s UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship. The role is described as a 14-month appointment, with a start date of December 2026 or soon after and some flexibility. The research topics will be connected to the fellowship and the supervisor’s research interests, but there is also room for some topic flexibil...

Postdoctoral Researcher position in Mechanistic Understanding of AI Reasoning at the University of Copenhagen , within the CopeNLU group and the Pioneer Centre for AI . The project focuses on how large language models acquire, integrate, and reason over evolving, pluralistic knowledge using mechanistic interpretability methods. The research may include developing novel conceptual frameworks, methods, or empirical studies. The postdoc will also contribute to teaching or supervision to a small deg...

PhD fellowship at the University of Copenhagen in Natural Language Processing , Computer Science , and computational humanities , focused on cultural reasoning with language models . The project, CuRe: Cultural Reasoning for Responsible Language Model Development (DFF project 5334-00088B), studies how language models interpret culture, ambiguity, and textual evidence, with literary texts as a demanding testbed. The PhD candidate will work in the AI Section and CoAStaL research group at the Depar...