Research Associate​/Senior Research Associate in Multimodal Foundation Models

Location: Bengaluru

This Job is based in Australia

The Opportunity

The School of Computer Science and Engineering is offering an opportunity for a  Research Associate/Senior Research Associate . In this role, you will conduct both independent and collaborative research within your appointed field and undertake activities to further develop your expertise in deep learning. You will be working on a defence funded project with the research focused on the development of multimodal foundation models using data from a broad range of modalities, as well as their adversarial testing.

The project will develop techniques for pre-training (such as continual learning and lifelong learning) that are particularly adapted for robustness against adversarial attacks, and post-training (for example, instruction fine-tuning and task-agnostic prompting). The models will be evaluated on downstream tasks related to situational understanding and contextual intelligence. Due to project requirements, only Australian citizens can be considered for this role.

This position offers the opportunity to advance your scholarly research and professional activities on both national and international levels. You will contribute to the writing of scientific papers and reports for international journals, participate in conferences and workshops, supervise HDR students, and actively collaborate with industry partners.

This role reports to Professor Flora Salim and has no direct reports.

Salary,
Research Associate (Level

A) - AUD $113,911 to $121,838 per annum + 17% superannuation
Senior Research Associate (Level B, Step
1) - AUD $127,947 per annum + 17% superannuation
Full time
Fixed-term contract – 3 to 3.5 years

Location:

Kensington – Sydney, Australia
Australian citizenship required for project eligibility

About UNSW

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Skills And Experience

Research Associate (Level

A)

A PhD (or soon to be awarded) in a related discipline, and/or relevant work experience.
Demonstrated track record in research, evidenced by publications in top-tier AI and ML conferences, such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, with outcomes of high quality and high impact with clear evidence of the desire and ability to continually achieve research excellence as well as the capacity for research leadership.
Strong experience in at least two of the following areas:
deep learning and/or computer vision
continual learning
vision language models
Experience in developing comprehensive benchmarks.
Robust coding and software engineering skills.
A strong practice of maintaining open-source code repository.
Demonstrated ability to work in a team, collaborate across disciplines and build effective relationships.
Evidence of highly developed interpersonal skills.
An understanding of and commitment to UNSW's aims, objectives and values in action, together with relevant policies and guidelines.
Knowledge of health and safety responsibilities and commitment to attending relevant health and safety training.

Senior Research Associate (Level

B)

A PhD in a related discipline, and/or relevant work experience.
Demonstrated track record in research, evidenced by publications in top-tier AI and ML conferences, such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, with outcomes…