Postdoc Position on Multimodal Foundation Models

Faculteit/Dienst: Faculteit der Natuurw., Wiskunde & Informatica

Opleidingsniveau: Gepromoveerd

Functie type: Wetenschappelijk Personeel

Sluitingsdatum: 20 september 2024

Vacaturenummer: 13359

• Conducting independent research in AI, resulting in academic publications in peer-reviewed conferences and journals;
• To become an active member of the research community and to collaborate with other researchers and Ph D students,
• Supervising Bachelor and Master theses and tutoring students;
• Coordinating and working with research team members at Kepler Vision.

• Ph D in artificial intelligence or computer science;
• Committed researcher, demonstrated by publications in international refereed academic conferences, or journals, in particular in computer vision (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV) and machine learning (Neur IPS, ICLR, ICML).
• Experience in supporting tasks and the willingness to take the responsibility for administrative tasks.
• Strong communication, presentation and writing skills and excellent command of English.

• 232 holiday hours per year (based on fulltime) and extra holidays between Christmas and 1 January;
• Multiple courses to follow from our Teaching and Learning Centre;
• Multiple courses on topics such as leadership for academic staff;
• Multiple courses on topics such as time management, handling stress and an online learning platform with 100+ different courses;
• 7 weeks birth leave (partner leave) with 100% salary;
• Partly paid parental leave;
• The possibility to set up a workplace at home;
• A pension at ABP for which Uv A pays two third part of the contribution;
• The possibility to follow courses to learn Dutch;
• Help with housing for a studio or small apartment when you’re moving from abroad.

• Prof. dr. Cees Snoek, c.g.m.snoek@uva.nl

• A letter that motivates your choice for this position;
• Curriculum vitae, including your list of publications ;
• A link to your Ph D thesis – if online available, else include an abstract.
• A complete record of Bachelor and Master courses (including grades and explanation of grading system);
• The names and contact addresses of at least two academic references (please do not include any recommendation letters).