Research Engineer (1-year contract), SCIS

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Singapore Management University is a place where high-level professionalism blends together with a healthy informality. The family-like atmosphere among the SMU community fosters a culture where employees work, plan, organise and play together - building a strong collegiality and morale within the university.

Our commitment to attract and retain talent is ongoing. We offer attractive benefits and welfare, competitive compensation packages, and generous professional development opportunities - all to meet the work-life needs of our staff. No wonder, then, that SMU continues to be given numerous awards and recognition for its human resource excellence.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The candidate will be responsible for conducting research on [large-scale optimization for training AI models]. Successful candidate will be part of an active research team led by Assistant Prof. ZHOU Pan from School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University.

Candidate's core responsibilities are:

• Design efficient and effective training algorithms.
• Implement your designed algorithms and your supervisor's algorithms.
• Evaluate them on the representative AI models like ResNet, Vision Transformer, and LLAMA.
• Write papers.
• Give presentations if needed.
• Other duties assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum master's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or closely related disciplines from an institution of higher learning.
• Minimum 3 years of relevant research experience in AI or machine learning or optimization or computer vision.
• Basic knowledge/Proficiency in programming software/languages such as python and PyTorch will be positively considered/ is required.
• Demonstrated experience and know-how on 1) large AI models and their training algorithms 2) machine learning or computer vision.
• At least one top-tier conference or journal papers like NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ICCV, TPAMI, JMLR.
• Good analytical, technical and problem-solving skills.
• Applicants with research publications in optimization and machine learning areas will be advantageous.
• Self-motivated individual who can work independently and also collaboratively with team members.

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Please note that your application will be sent to and reviewed by the direct employer - Singapore Management University