Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Research Assistant
(Ref. 260807016)
[Appointment period: six months]
Duties
The appointee will assist the project leader in the research project - “Towards adaptative pretrained vision-language foundation models for medical image analysis”. He/She will be required to:
(a) conduct the research on individual/collaborative training and collaborative inference between large and small vision-language models;
(b) assist in general management of the project; and
(c) perform any other duties as assigned by the project leader, Head of Unit or their delegates.
Qualifications
Applicants should have:
(a) an honours degree in Computer Science or related disciplines or an equivalent qualification;
(b) experience in vision-language model training, graph learning, and AI agent implementation and optimisation; and
(c) good communication skills in English.
Applicants are invited to contact Prof. Kay Chen Tan at telephone number 2766 7271 or via email at kctan@polyu.edu.hk for further information.
Conditions of Service
A highly competitive remuneration package will be offered.
The closing date for application is 14 August 2026.
Posting date: 7 August 2026