We are looking for full-time or part-time research developers for developing novel research prototypes and production software systems. You will join a research project, work online, and be mentored by Professor Kevin Chang and senior graduate students at UIUC. You are expected to commit flexibly from 10 hours/week (part-time) to 40 hours/week (which will be a full-time position). The positions are open immediately for a term of six months and will renew/continue, depending on performance, at the end of each term.

Project Description: AI-based knowledge discovery and acquisition by exploring, searching, and synthesizing knowledge from large scale data on the Internet. We are building next generation search services to help users explore data and acquire knowledge. We will organize a corpus of text data (e.g., the Web, social media, or scientific/technical literature) by extracting and profiling entities, relations, and concepts, and developing an effective search facility to support data exploration and knowledge acquisition.

Techniques: You will learn about and apply artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning, data mining, e.g., large language model, word embedding, information extraction, text summarization.  

Qualification: You are an ideal candidate if you can:

● Effectively communicate in English.

● Develop backend or frontend or full-stack software.

● Read research papers and understand how to reproduce.

● Build/implement AI/NLP techniques such as word embedding, entity recognition, information extraction, (using) large language models.  

Pay: $900-$1440/month (full-time) or $5-$8/hour (part-time), depending on qualification.

Collaboration: The project is collaboration between Forward Data Lab at UIUC and Cazoodle Inc. Hanoi, led by Professor Kevin Chang.

To Apply: If interested, please send your resume and (informal) college transcript with a brief description of why you are a good candidate.