Openings: Postdoc, research software engineering and ontology engineering positions at the Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

The Ontology Engineering Group at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid conducts foundational and applied research in the areas of Ontology Engineering, Knowledge Graphs, Natural Language Processing, Open Data and Open Science. The group is also part of UPM’s R&D center for Artificial Intelligence (AI.nnovation) and of the Digital Innovation Hub AIR4S, where we provide AI-based service support to industry and public administrations worldwide.
 
As part of the rich set of national and international R&D projects where the group is involved, we are looking for postdocs, research software engineers and ontology engineers that are willing to get involved in exciting research or research support tasks as part of our group, in many of these areas. All of these positions will be available until they are filled in. Most of them are available initially for one year, and can be extended further in the future on the same project or other related projects. 
 
For further information you can contact Oscar Corcho (oscar.corcho@upm.es). We are also  expecting many other positions to be available in the coming months, so if you are interested in working with us and think that your profile may be relevant for us, considering our areas of work, you can also contact us directly and we will be able to let you know when these positions are ready.
 
Offered positions
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[OpenScience-1] Creation of open science related resources (EU H2020 project RELIANCE)
Position: Research software engineer
Tasks:
    Creation of Research Objects from heterogeneous Open Science data sources.
    Integration of systems related to Open Science.
    Creation of roadmaps for the implementation of Open Science policies for universities and research centers.
    Creation of educational materials on Open Science.
    Creation of Open Science dashboards for institutions and research groups.
Link: https://oeg.fi.upm.es/index.php/en/jobopportunities/587-contrato-reliance/index.html 
 
[SemAnnot-1] Development and implementation of semantic annotation algorithms for tabular data sources (EIT Digital project WOODS)
Position: Research Software Engineer or Postdoc
Tasks:
    Development and implementation of semantic annotation algorithms for tabular data from business and scientific domains.
    Development and implementation of semantic annotation algorithms for structured and semi-structured data from business and scientific domains.
Link: https://oeg.fi.upm.es/index.php/en/jobopportunities/588-contrato-woods2/index.html 
 
[KG-1] Ontology and Knowledge Graph generation from scientific literature in biomedicine (Spanish national project Drugs4COVID)
Position: Ontology Engineer, Knowledge Graph Engineer
Tasks:
    Updating and development of ontologies related to the medical and biological domain.
    Creation of data transformation mappings to generate knowledge graphs in the medical and biological domain.
Link: https://oeg.fi.upm.es/index.php/en/jobopportunities/589-contrato-drugs3/index.html 
 
[NLP-1] COVID-19 scientific literature annotation and terminology extraction (Spanish national project Drugs4COVID)
Position: Postdoc or Research Software Engineer
Tasks:
    Annotation of texts with terminology obtained from language models and Word embeddings in the domain of COVID-19.
    Annotation of tabular data in the domain of COVID-19.
Link: https://oeg.fi.upm.es/index.php/en/jobopportunities/590-contrato-drugs2/index.html 
 
[NLP-2] COVID-19 scientific literature text mining (Spanish national project Drugs4COVID)
Position: Postdoc or Research Software Engineer
Tasks:
    Implementation and deployment of text mining algorithms on scientific texts on COVID-19.
    Obtaining terminologies from scientific texts on COVID-19.
Link: https://oeg.fi.upm.es/index.php/en/jobopportunities/591-contrato-drugs1/index.html 
 
[DT-WoT-1] Digital twins under the Web of Things paradigm (EU H2020 project COGITO)
Position: Postdoc or Research Software Engineer
Tasks:
    Definition of architectures for decentralized interoperable service systems
    Development of connectors for the integration of data infrastructures (including IoT data)
    Creation and exploitation of knowledge graphs from decentralized data sources
    Development of data discovery, linking and validation services in digital twins
Link: https://oeg.fi.upm.es/index.php/es/jobopportunities/600-contrato-cogito/index.html
 
[Privacy-KG-1] Decentralized Privacy over Knowledge Graphs (EU H2020 project AURORAL)
Position: Postdoc or Research Software Engineer
Tasks:
    Development of connectors for the integration of data infrastructures (including IoT data)
    Creation and exploitation of knowledge graphs from decentralized data sources
    Development of decentralized privacy policy management services
    Development of validation and privacy assurance services on knowledge graphs
Link: https://oeg.fi.upm.es/index.php/es/jobopportunities/599-contrato-auroral2/index.html
 
[NLP-3/KG-2] Annotation of textual contents of legal documents and generation of knowledge graphs from heterogeneous sources (EU CEF project NextProcurement)
Position: Postdoc or Research Software Engineer
Tasks:
    Annotation of textual contents of legal documents and tenders.
    Generation of knowledge graphs from annotations and heterogeneous data sources.
Link: https://oeg.fi.upm.es/index.php/en/jobopportunities/594-contrato-nextpro1/index.html 
 
[NLP-4] Application of deep learning techniques for text anonymisation models (Spanish national innovation project HCommonK)
Position: Postdoc or Research Software Engineer
Task to be develop:
    Application of Deep Learning techniques for summary generation and text anonymisation.
    Improvement of text anonymisation models by integrating human knowledge.
Link: https://oeg.fi.upm.es/index.php/en/jobopportunities/595-contrato-hcommonk1/index.html 
 
[NLP-5] Application of deep learning techniques in the generation of summaries and development of interactive applications (Spanish national innovation project HCommonK)
Position: Research Software Engineer
Tasks:
    Engineering for the generation of summaries and anonymisation of texts using classical and Deep Learning techniques.
    Development of interactive applications so that users can incorporate their knowledge to improve Deep Learning models.
Link: https://oeg.fi.upm.es/index.php/en/jobopportunities/597-contrato-hcommonk2/index.html 
 
[OpenData-1] Treatment, enrichment and processing of data in public sector data lakes (EU CEF project NextProcurement)
Position: Research Software Engineer 
Tasks:
    Treatment of data processing pipelines and ingestion in public sector data lakes.
    Data enrichment in public sector data lake.
    Natural language processing associated with documents from public sector data lakes.
Link: https://oeg.fi.upm.es/index.php/en/jobopportunities/592-contrato-nextpro3/index.html 
 
[OpenData-2] Treatment, enrichment and processing of data in public sector data lakes (EU CEF project NextProcurement)
Position: Research Software Engineer
Tasks:
    Treatment of data processing pipelines and ingestion in public sector data lakes.
    Data enrichment in public sector data lake.
    Natural language processing associated with documents from public sector data lakes.
Link: https://oeg.fi.upm.es/index.php/en/jobopportunities/593-contrato-nextpro2/index.html 
 
[DeepLearning-HPC-1] Scalability improvement of deep learning models (Spanish national project CABAHLA)
Position: Research Software Engineer
Tasks:
    Improvement of the scalability of Deep Learning models for the prediction of spatio-temporal variables.
Link: https://oeg.fi.upm.es/index.php/en/jobopportunities/596-contrato-cabahla/index.html 
 
Profiles that we are looking for
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Each of the positions requires different types of skills, but in general, we are looking for:
• BSc, MSc or PhD (depending on the position) in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics or related fields. We do not discard other backgrounds that may be relevant for some of the positions: in the past we have had group members from Biology, Psychology, Communication, Journalism, etc.
• A good track record of research or development in any of the areas of interest for the group. Note that we do not just focus exclusively on scientific publications. We believe that research is more than publications, and we are interested in your activities in software and/or ontology engineering, in your work on scientific outreach, in how you have aimed at solving real problems with an impact in society, etc.
• Ability to communicate fluently in English. Knowledge of Spanish is not necessary.
• An excellent positive attitude towards group work, inside and outside the group. We do not understand research as an isolated task and we encourage our group members to collaborate with each other.
• A good attitude towards openness and Open Science.
 
Why joining our group?
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The group provides an excellent multicultural environment, with PhD and MSc students, research software engineers and ontology engineers from different nationalities (many of our group members are not Spanish) and with different backgrounds. We often have visitors from other international institutions that come to our group for short periods of time to discuss with us about their research, enriching the research context of our group (now restarting after the last 18 months).
 
Our research seminars, which happen once a week for cross-fertilisation across the different research areas of our group, are commonly held in English and provide a good way to exchange ideas and discuss about research topics and advances done in any of our work areas.
 
In the case of PhD students, all of our PhD students are always offered the possibility of obtaining a European or International PhD. To achieve that, the student should at least spend three months during his/her PhD in another institution abroad. If funds are available, we try to get PhD students to visit external institutions every year, or attend summer schools.

Received on Friday, 10 December 2021 18:57:30 UTC