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Research Associate, School of Computing

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SingaporeKent Ridge Campus, Singapore

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About the role

Join the Department of Computer Science at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore, as a Research Associate supporting a project on trustworthy AI for psychological consultation. You will work closely with the Principal Investigator and lab members on building reliable AI therapist technologies that combine psychological principles, large language models, privacy-preserving learning and safety-aware system design. This role suits a research-minded computing graduate who enjoys interdisciplinary collaboration.

What you'll do

Develop autonomous benchmarking and evaluation of AI therapist responses using computable criteria grounded in psychological principles, professional ethics and local regulatory expectations

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Train, fine-tune and evaluate large language models for safe, empathetic and reliable psychological consultation support

Work on privacy-preserving AI methods for sensitive user reflection data, including federated learning, differential privacy or related secure learning techniques

Contribute to safety-aware inference systems, including real-time monitoring of inappropriate AI responses and detection of high-risk user language for escalation to human experts

Carry out experimental design, statistical evaluation, dataset construction, system implementation and preparation of technical reports or research publications

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Based at Kent Ridge Campus
Employee referral is not eligible for this position

Requirements

Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Computing, Data Science, Information Systems or a closely related area
Strong programming ability in Python
Experience with machine learning or large language model development
Good analytical, communication and technical writing skills
Able to work collaboratively in an interdisciplinary research environment

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