Postdoctoral Position(s) in Natural Language Processing with a focus on
HealthCare
Department of Computer Science + Department of Medicine
University of British Columbia (UBC) Vancouver, BC, Canada
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We are seeking outstanding postdoctoral candidate(s) with an interest
in Natural
Language Processing (NLP) to develop novel text processing methods that are
motivated by Healthcare problems. The successful applicant will join the
thriving UBC-NLP research group <https://nlp.cs.ubc.ca/>.
We are interested in addressing key limitations of (Multimodal) LLMs (e.g.,
hallucinations, interpretability) when applied to large text corpora (e.g.,
clinical data), in tasks including:
– Text Categorization, Summarization and Topic Modeling
– Information Extraction and Sentiment Analysis
– Text-based Predictive Modeling
The ideal candidates will have a strong publication record in areas
including NLP, LLMs, text mining, visual analytics, health informatics, and
related fields. Experience working in the medical domain and/or some degree
of clinical knowledge is an asset, but not a requirement.
Applicants should be qualified at the PhD level (or equivalent) and must
have excellent interpersonal, writing and research skills, strong time
management and organizational skills, the ability to prioritize and meet
deadlines and work both independently and as a member of the research team.
The successful applicants will join a thriving NLP research Lab with a long
history of publishing in top NLP venues, as well as strong research teams
in the Department of Medicine, which will provide the clinical relevance
and real-life applications of the research projects.
The UBC NLP lab has strong partnerships with the BC Ministry of Health and
the Provincial Health Services Authority in having them provide direct
research funds and high-quality health data from BC. Many of the tools are
expected to be integrated into the BC healthcare system for actual uses.
Timescale of Appointment: 1 year, renewable for a second year.
Target start date: Any time; exact start date is negotiable.
Salary: remuneration commensurate with experience and qualification
Application closing date: June 1, 2025
Informal inquiries are welcome and may be made to: carenini@cs.ubc.ca
If interested please submit to carenini@cs.ubc.ca <carenini@cs.ubc.ca>
– a complete CV,
– a research statement (max two pages),
– country of citizenship and date of availability,
– names and contact information of three references.