Research Fellow (Computer Engineering/Computer Science/Electronics Engineering) Full-time

Job Title

Young and research-intensive, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) is ranked among the world's top universities. NTU's College of Computing and Data Science (CCDS) is a leading college that is known for its excellent curriculum, outstanding and impactful research, and world-renowned faculty.

A hot bed of cutting-edge technology and groundbreaking research, the College aims to groom the next generation of leaders, thinkers, and innovators to thrive in the digital age. Located in the heart of Asia, NTU's College of Computing and Data Science is an 'exciting place to learn and grow. We welcome you to join our community of faculty, students and alumni who are shaping the future of AI, Data Science and Computing.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and evaluation of the project's core technical components in expert-in-the-loop agentic AI for manufacturing.
• Develop process-centric AI methods and software tools for BPMN modelling, Petri/CPN formalisation, process mining, conformance checking, and token-based what-if analysis.
• Build and integrate LLM-enabled multi-agent components for expert elicitation, structured questioning, explanation, and knowledge update workflows.
• Design and maintain semantic / causal knowledge graph and provenance mechanisms for validated write-back of rules, parameters, and process knowledge.
• Conduct experiments, benchmarking, and technical validation on manufacturing control-tower and process-design use cases, including performance overlays and policy evaluation.
• Work closely with project investigators, collaborators, and domain experts to translate operational requirements into concrete technical modules and research deliverables.
• Prepare technical reports, research publications, software artefacts, and presentations arising from the project.
• Support project coordination, documentation, milestone tracking, and supervision of junior research personnel or students where required.

Job Requirements

• Preferably PhD in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electronics Engineering or equivalent.
• Independent, highly analytical, proactive and a team player
• Excellent teamwork and verbal, written communication skills
• In-depth knowledge relevant to the project domain.
• Demonstrated capability to conduct innovative research.
• The ability and willingness to adapt and incorporate novel ideas and approaches in scientific industry.
• Demonstrated ability to formulate hypothesis and design effective experimental plans.
• Ability to design and implement new experimental methods.
• High-level expertise in the required experiment or modelling methods.
• Ability to initiate collaboration research in multidisciplinary team.
• Oversee and report project progress.
• Ability and willingness to work some flexible hours.

We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Hiring Institution: NTU