The Natural Language Processing Section at the Department of Computer Science invites highly-motivated applicants for a Ph.D Fellow in Natural Language Processing. The start date is expected to be 1 September 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.
The overall goal of the project is to advance the theory and application of language models that can process any written language by rendering text as images. This visual representation of text allows a model to learn cross-lingually based on the visual similarities between written languages. The project includes creating and implementing tokenization-free multilingual language models, collecting and curating visually diverse language data, and training both small-scale and large-scale language models. In particular, the selected Ph.D Fellow will be expected to focus on the development of hybrid models that can jointly process tokenizer-based and tokenizer-free representations.
The position is funded by a Carlsberg Foundation Semper Ardens: Accelerate Grant held by the principal investigator, Desmond Elliott. The project team includes the principal investigator, and three Ph.D Fellows, as well as external collaborators.
Principal supervisor is Associate Professor Desmond Elliott, Department of Computer Science, de@di.ku.dk, Direct phone: +45 93 50 91 75.
To be eligible for the regular PhD programme, you must have completed a degree programme, equivalent to a Danish master's degree (180 ECTS/3 FTE BSc + 120 ECTS/2 FTE MSc) related to the subject area of the project. Employment as PhD fellow is full time and for maximum 3 years.
The terms of employment and salary are in accordance with the agreement between the Ministry of Finance and The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations on Academics in the State (AC). The position is covered by the Protocol on Job Structure.
Responsibilities and tasks in the PhD programme include:
We are looking for the following qualifications:
Application and assessment procedure: Your application including all attachments must be in English and submitted electronically by clicking APPLY NOW below.
Please include:
The deadline for applications is 8 March 2026, 23:59 GMT +1. After the expiry of the deadline for applications, the authorized recruitment manager selects applicants for assessment on the advice of the Interview Committee. Interviews with selected candidates are expected to be held in Weeks 16 and 17.
For specific information about the PhD fellowship, please contact de@di.ku.dk. General information about PhD study at the Faculty of SCIENCE is available at the PhD School's website: https://www.science.ku.dk/phd/.
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