Research Assistant

Hong Kong Baptist University

Department
Department of Computer Science
Rank
Research Assistant/Associate
Position type
Full-time
Reference
26270211

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Undertake data engineering on large-scale Chinese medicine corpora, including data cleaning, format conversion and de-duplication.
  • Deploy and maintain vector databases and implement retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines.
  • Assist in verifying factuality of model-generated content and conduct statistical analysis of experimental data.
  • Help prepare research reports and academic papers.

Requirements & Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science or related discipline.
  • Proficient in Python programming, database management and development.
  • Experience with text processing, OCR pipelines, vector databases (FAISS, Milvus, Chroma) and RAG/LLM frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex) is highly desirable.
  • Detail-oriented, able to work independently on large datasets, with strong written and spoken English and Chinese; experience with classical Chinese texts or Chinese medicine is advantageous.

Appointment

  • Full-time fixed-term contract of up to 24 months, subject to project funding availability.

Key Dates

  • Review date: Ongoing until position is filled.
  • Interview notification deadline: 8 weeks after application submission.
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