Doctoral student in Large Language Model inferencing Full-time NEW

Doctoral Student In Large Language Model Inferencing

Third-cycle subject: Computer science

The advertised doctoral student position is within an ambitious, 5-year Wallenberg Scholar project titled “Scalable and adaptive inferencing for democratizing AI”. In this 18 Million SEK project, we want to dramatically reduce the cost and power for serving large language models such as ChatGPT.

The work will primarily entail design, implementation, and evaluation of distributed systems and networks for machine learning inference. Applying machine learning concepts, with the goal of devising agentic frameworks, will also be a part of the project.

Supervision: Professor Dejan Kostic and Associate Professor Marco Chiesa is proposed to supervise the doctoral student. Decisions are made on admission.

Admission Requirements

To be admitted to postgraduate education, the applicant must have basic eligibility in accordance with either of the following:

• passed a second cycle degree (for example a master's degree), or
• completed course requirements of at least 240 higher education credits, of which at least 60 second-cycle higher education credits, or
• acquired, in some other way within or outside the country, substantially equivalent knowledge

In addition to the above, there is also a mandatory requirement for English equivalent to English B/6.

Selection

In order to succeed as a doctoral student at KTH you need to be goal oriented and persevering in your work. During the selection process, candidates will be assessed upon their ability to:

• independently pursue his or her work
• collaborate with others,
• have a professional approach and
• analyze and work with complex issues.

We invite applications from students with a wide variety of backgrounds in computer science, engineering, data science, and machine learning. For this position, knowledge of systems and networking is highly desirable. We highly value scientific curiosity and the desire to tackle hard, relevant problems in an effort to make important research contributions.

After the qualification requirements, great emphasis will be placed on personal skills.

Target Degree: Doctoral Degree

Information regarding admission and employment

Only those admitted to postgraduate education may be employed as a doctoral student. The total length of employment may not be longer than what corresponds to full-time doctoral education in four years' time. An employed doctoral student can, to a limited extent (maximum 20%), perform certain tasks within their role, e.g. training and administration. A new position as a doctoral student is for a maximum of one year, and then the employment may be renewed for a maximum of two years at a time.

As a doctoral student, you are entitled to a workplace with many employee benefits and monthly salary according to KTH's Doctoral student salary agreement. Read more about Doctoral studies (PhD) | KTH | Sweden.