Postdoctoral Fellow – Center for Environmental Intelligence

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral fellow position of one year, possibly renewable for additional years, in the College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) at VinUniversity. The research will focus on developing and analyzing novel algorithms in safe and secure machine learning, especially on Large Language Models (LLMs), Vision-Language Models, and agent-based environments. Topics of interest include—but are not limited to—pre-training strategies, fine-tuning techniques, bias and fairness, interpretability, adversarial robustness, and alignment in AI systems, with potential applications in sustainability, farming, material discovery, and healthcare.

This position is closely co-advised by Khoa Doan (Assistant Professor, CECS) and Nitesh Chawla (Honorary Professor at VinUniversity, Frank M. Freimann Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, and the Founding Director of the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society). The postdoctoral fellow will be fully funded to spend a portion of their time at the University of Notre Dame, working closely with Nitesh Chawla and other scholars at Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Applicants should have a Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field (e.g., informatics, engineering, robotics, statistics, mathematics…). Experience with machine learning, generative AI,  and/or AI Safety is essential. The ideal candidate for these positions:

• Should have strong background in adversarial machine learning, certified robustness or interpretability, and strong experience in NLP and Machine Learning.
• Should have a track record of publishing at top international venues like AAAI, IJCAI, ACL, EMNLP, KDD, NAACL, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, TMLR, TPAMI, etc… 
• Should be interested in mentoring masters and PhDs on research projects.
• Should have a demonstrated ability to initiate new research projects and have a desire to lead a research team.

BENEFITS:

• This position is fully funded and offers a competitive salary, research support, and travel funding to present at leading conferences.
• Access to computing resources and research infrastructure at VinUni. VinUni is also in the process of building a very large, high-performing computing cluster.
• Opportunities for collaboration with international partners, including the University of Notre Dame, UIUC, CISPA, MPI, UMass, University of Stuttgart, Virginia Tech, etc…More importantly, the postdoctoral fellow will be fully funded to spend a portion of their time at the University of Notre Dame, working closely with Nitesh Chawla and other scholars at Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society.
• A vibrant and growing AI research environment at VinUniversity in Hanoi, Vietnam

TO APPLY:

Applicants should send by email to khoa.dd@vinuni.edu.vn and cc the CEI office at cei@vinuni.edu.vn:

• a curriculum vitae
• names of two references with contact information
• a two-page summary of past research and relevant qualifications
• a personal Web page, if available, where further details can be found

Note: Name the file using the format: “Position_YourName_CV.pdf” (e.g., Postdoc_NguyenThiA_CV.pdf).

• Use the subject line: “Postdoctoral Fellow with Nitesh Chawla”.

The position is expected to begin as soon as possible, but no later than Fall 2025. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.