Post-doctoral Fellow

Education University of Hong Kong

Department
Department of English Language Education
Rank
Postdoctoral
Position type
Full-time
Reference
2600903
Posted
12 Oct 2026
Application deadline
19 Oct 2026

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Design and maintain shared infrastructure for ethical collection, storage, processing, documentation, annotation and analysis of large-scale platform data.
  • Develop reproducible pipelines for multilingual text, image, audio, video, metadata and interaction networks with quality control and privacy protection.
  • Develop multimodal machine learning and natural language processing methods that integrate theory-guided features with learned representations.
  • Apply network analysis and computational social science methods.
  • Collaborate on annotation design, error analysis, fairness audits, and open research outputs including publications and grant development.

Requirements & Qualifications

  • Doctorate in computer science, data science, computational social science, information science, computational communication or closely related field.
  • Strong programming and data engineering skills in Python with experience in machine learning workflows and reproducible research.
  • Demonstrated expertise in at least two of: natural language processing, multimodal machine learning, computational social science, social network analysis, or graph analysis.
  • Evidence of independence, careful data stewardship, collaborative working and ability to deliver reliable research infrastructure on agreed timelines.

Appointment

  • Full-time, three-year postdoctoral fellowship

Key Dates

  • Not specified
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