Singapore Job Openings

National University of Singapore

Research Assistant in Computational Social Science (CTIC)

Singapore

FULL TIME

October 10, 2024

Date: 7 Oct 2024
Location: SPECIALTY RESEARCH INST/CTRS, Kent Ridge Campus, SG
Company: National University of Singapore

Introduction

The National University of Singapore Centre for Trusted Internet and Community (CTIC) is dedicated to the inter-disciplinary study of the Internet and its implications on the society of the future.

The first-of-its-kind centre will integrate social and behavioural science research, digital technologies, data-driven approaches, and policy studies to holistically examine the Internet and its societal impact including topics such as the future of privacy, freedom of expression, misinformation and disinformation, as well as maintaining social security and stability.

This is an exciting opportunity to join us as a Research Assistant in Computational Social Science under a new programme titled “Digital Information Resilience: Restoring Trust and Nudging Behaviours in Digitalisation”.

Job Description

As a Research Assistant (RA) in Computational Social Science with CTIC, you will work closely with Assistant Professor Kokil Jaidka on a research problem related to news on social media.

RAs with a communication research background will be tasked to focus on human evaluation and news consumption (Communication research).

RAs with a computer science or related background will be tasked to focus on natural language processing and generation problems around trustworthiness, bias, and argumentation (NLProc, Large Language Models or LLMs, Computational Linguistics).

Job Responsibilities:
As a Research Assistant with CTIC, you will have the following duties:

Research:

Conduct literature reviews

For Comm Research RAs:

Plan and conduct experiments on human perception and consumption of online news.
Collect data and analyze it using tools like SPSS, R, and Excel

For CS Research RAs:

Plan and conduct experiments on the modeling of different facets of news and news quality
Train models, finetune LLMs, collect data and analyze it
Write op-eds for university blogs and popular media.

Coordination:

Oversee participant recruitment and logistics for survey experiments

Each research paper will have the following phases to it:

Phase 1 – Literature reviews
Phase 2 – CS research design, or Social Science research design, including IRB applications.
Phase 3 – Data collection and pre-processing.
Phase 4 – Data analysis and result tabulation.
Phase 5 – Research communication and writing of papers.

Requirements

Minimum Bachelor’s Degree and/or Master’s degree in Communications or Computer Science (or in any other closely related field).
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

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