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