Available short-term research position on multimodal knowledge graphs for financial risks

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Dear Semantic Web community,

I am looking to hire a research assistant for 13 weeks, 20 hrs per week to work on a project in collaboration with industry.

The intended project start date is 1st October 2025.
Deadline for expression of interest is 19th September 2025.

The applicants should have the right to work in The UK for the duration of the project. Hybrid work is possible.

Project: Investigating Multimodal Knowledge Graphs as Infrastructures for Digital Twins of Financial Operations Risks

Project Summary: Financial operational risks cost the financial sector billions annually due to fragmented systems, operations, data and knowledge silos. As financial institutions face increasing complexity, cyber threats, and regulatory scrutiny, the need for dynamic, real-time risk modelling has never been more urgent. Our industry collaborator  is a visionary start-up for AI-driven risk management, which is actively working on tackling these challenges via proactive risk automation, contextual intelligence, and compliance oversight. To realise its vision at scale, the company is currently building an innovative AI-driven digital twin of financial operations to support risk management in dynamic financial ecosystems. However, a significant bottleneck actively slowing down progress is the lack of a robust and trustworthy digital data infrastructure that their AI can rely on. This project will investigate the utilisation of a multimodal knowledge graph (MMKG) as digital infrastructure to enable greater interoperability and efficient integration of financial operations data. The results of this will not only boost developments but will also help to better understand the advantages and disadvantages of utilising a MMKG as a digital twin infrastructure for contextualising and operationalising financial operations risks.
Key tasks in the project: Collaborative ontology engineering, data collection and analysis, and building a  multimodal knowledge graph prototype.

Key skills needed: Experience with ontologies and knowledge graphs (preferably RDF-based). Experience with embedding multimodal data is a plus.

To express interest in this position send your CV, a short paragraph on your motivation and skills to a.kurteva@bham.ac.uk

Best,
Anelia
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Assist. Prof. Dr. Anelia Kurteva
Data Management for AI
School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham, The UK

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