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September 18, 2025

**Job Description**
This role, under the supervision of Prof Maria Liakata, is for a Research Assistant or Postdoctoral Research Associate within the RAi UK/UKRI funded Keystone project on Addressing socio-technical limitations of Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly for medical and social computing. The position focuses on developing improved evaluation methods for LLMs in real-world scenarios, including reference-free and benchmark-based approaches, enhancing LLMs with temporal reasoning and multi-modal data prediction capabilities, and mitigating hallucinations and biases.

**Skills & Abilities**
• Substantial knowledge of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning methods
• Good understanding of work in LLM evaluation and fine tuning
• Experience in working on reasoning and explainability of NLP and machine learning models (desirable)

**Qualifications**
Required Degree(s) in:
• Computer Science or a related topic (Undergraduate Degree)
• NLP or machine learning (Ph.D. for PDRA level)

**Experience**
Other:
• Substantial knowledge of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning methods is essential
• Good understanding of work in LLM evaluation and fine tuning is essential
• Experience in working on reasoning and explainability of NLP and machine learning models is desirable

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Experience
Other: • Substantial knowledge of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning methods is essential • Good understanding of work in LLM evaluation and fine tuning is essential • Experience in working on reasoning and explainability of NLP and machine learning models is desirable
Work Level
Bachelor, Masters, Ph.D, Postdoc
Employment Type
Research Job
Salary
Annual Salary: Competitive salaries Benefits: • Generous pension scheme • 30 days' leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term) • Season ticket loan scheme • Access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities • Work-life balance and family-friendly, inclusive employment policies • Campus facilities and flexible working arrangements
Details
Full-time / Part-time / Temporary Duration: until 2028-03-31 Location Requirement: Based at the Mile End Campus in London
School / Department / Center / Lab
• School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
Supervisor(s)
Prof Maria Liakata
Supervisor Email
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Queen Mary University of London (QMUL)
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Industry
Education
Phone
+44 (0)20 7882 5555 +44 (0)20 7882 **** Show
Location
London