PhD position in NLP: LLM Reasoning for Uncertainty Communication and Explanation in Healthcare¶

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Two openings are available at UvA; co-supervised with Wilker Aziz, in the context of an upcoming large project about LLM and language technologies for healthcare applications. The two positions are on uncertainty representation and evidence-grounded explanation.

The most important part of your application is by far the motivation letter. Please read my advice for writing a motivation letter for me.

Answers to frequent questions:¶

• The master’s degree (and thesis) requirement is unfortunately firm, and out of my control.
• If you want to do your master’s at the UvA and work with me, emailing me does not help; you must apply to the program. At UvA, master’s students usually are not attached to research labs, but me or my LTL colleagues can advise your thesis project in the second year.
• I don’t at the moment have the ability or the capacity to recruit interns or self-funded PhD students.
• If in doubt about applying I encourage e-mailing me (vacancy number in subject),
• but please try to keep tthe e-mail brief and with clearly marked questions, otherwise I might not find time to process it. In particular there is nothing to gain from e-mailing me your application, just apply through the system.

Advising statement¶

I generally recommend talking to other students of a potential PhD advisor; you may find my current and previous advisees on this page.

The PhD is a job, and, at UvA, PhD students are employees, with the workers’ rights that stem from this. I believe your PhD is not your entire life and identity. I encourage and try to actively demonstrate work-life balance, awareness and support of mental health struggles, inclusivity, openness and safety. The PhD is the time to learn how to learn, ask, answer, describe, and teach. I will help and mentor you through it, according to my ability and your requested level.