Postdoctoral Fellow(s) – Cross Cultural Analytics (Data Science, NLP, Computational Linguistics, Computational Humanities)
Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Department
- Department of History
- Rank
- Postdoctoral
- Position type
- Full-time
Duties & Responsibilities
- Develop and apply NLP and data-science methods including OCR correction, semantic search, and knowledge-graph modelling.
- Support construction and processing of large multilingual historical corpora.
- Co-author research papers for digital humanities and computational linguistics venues.
- Work with an international research team across China, Europe, and North America on project workshops and events.
Requirements & Qualifications
- PhD in Computer Science, NLP, Computational Linguistics, Data Science, Machine Learning, or related technical field.
- Strong programming skills in Python and experience with modern NLP tools and ML frameworks.
- Experience working with textual data such as tokenization, embeddings, transformers, OCR, or corpus processing.
- Ability to work independently in an interdisciplinary environment.
- Preference for experience with multilingual NLP, digital text pipelines, graph neural networks, or interest in cultural analytics.
Appointment
- Full-time contract for up to eighteen months, renewable subject to good performance and mutual agreement.
Key Dates
- Start date: 30 June 2026
- Application review commencement: 15 March 2026
- Closing date: Not specified (applications continue until positions are filled)