The Natural Language Understanding Research group<https://www.copenlu.com/> at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen<https://di.ku.dk/> is offering a PhD and postdoc position each on a new interdisciplinary project on “Human-Centered Explainable Retrieval-Augmented LLMs”<https://dff.dk/en/our-funded-projects/see-an-overview-of-supported-research/?Bevilling.PolitiskTemaDK=Research%20on%20artificial%20intelligence&Bevilling.Finanslovsaar=2025&page=1> funded by the Independent Research Foundation Denmark<https://dff.dk/en/>, led by Isabelle Augenstein<https://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/> and Irina Shklovski<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ufIlFCIAAAAJ&hl=en>. Read more about reasons to join CopeNLU here<https://www.copenlu.com/post/why-ucph/>.
PhD position The PhD position is fully funded for three years and open to candidates with a Master’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related field. The PhD student’s research is expected to focus on explanation steering for human-centric RAG. The ideal candidate would thus have an educational background, prior research or work experience in ML or NLP. The PhD student would be supervised by Isabelle Augenstein<https://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/> and co-supervised by Irina Shklovski<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ufIlFCIAAAAJ&hl=en>, and also collaborate with the larger project team. In addition to a postdoc to be recruited, this includes external collaborators, including in information retrieval. Read more about the position and apply here<https://employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=153280> by 1 February 2026 to be considered. The expected start date is 1 September 2026. Postdoc position The postdoc position is also offered for three years and open to candidates with a PhD degree in Computer Science or another relevant field. The postdoc’s duties will be to conduct research on user-centric RAG and information needs of people interacting with AI. The ideal candidate would thus have an educational background, prior research or work experience at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing. The postdoc would work with Irina Shklovski<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ufIlFCIAAAAJ&hl=en> and Isabelle Augenstein<https://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/>, and also collaborate with the larger project team. Read more about the position and apply here<https://jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige-stillinger/?show=153139> by 1 February 2026 to be considered. The expected start date is 1 September 2026. Isabelle Augenstein, Dr. Scient., Ph.D. Professor and Head of the NLP Section, Department of Computer Science (DIKU) Co-Lead, Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence University of Copenhagen Østervold Observatory Øster Voldgade 3 1350 Copenhagen [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/
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