Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science

Location: Hong Kong, China

FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

Research Assistant (26270211)

The Department of Computer Science offers BSc, MSc, MPhil and PhD programmes, and conducts research in areas including artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analytics and health informatics. The Department invites applications for the following project-based position, funded by the Chinese Medicine Development Fund (CMDF) – Sector Support Programme under the project "Empowering Traditional Medicine with Modern Technology: Application and Research of Large Language Model Technology in Chinese Medicine Education":

Responsibilities

Working under the guidance of the project's core engineers, the appointee will:

(a) undertake data engineering work on large-scale Chinese medicine corpora, including in-depth data cleaning, structured format conversion and de-duplication;

(b) deploy and maintain the vector database and implement the underlying retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline;

(c) assist in the factuality verification of model-generated content and in the statistical analysis of experimental evaluation data; and

(d) assist in the preparation of research reports and academic papers.

Requirements

Possess a Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science or a related discipline, and be proficient in Python programming, database management and development;

Experience with text processing and OCR pipelines, vector databases (e.g. FAISS, Milvus, Chroma) and RAG or LLM application frameworks (e.g. LangChain, LlamaIndex) is highly desirable;

Be detail-oriented, able to work independently on large and heterogeneous text datasets, and have good command of written and spoken English and Chinese; and

Experience in handling classical Chinese texts or Chinese medicine materials will be an advantage.

For enquiries about the position, please contact Prof. Lu ZHANG (email: [email protected]).

The initial appointment will be made on a full-time fixed-term contract of up to 24 months, and in any event not beyond the end date of the funded project. Re-appointment thereafter will be subject to mutual agreement and the availability of funding.

Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Application Procedure

Applicants are invited to submit their applications at the HKBU e-Recruitment System, together with a full curriculum vitae and academic transcripts.

Those who are not invited for interview 8 weeks after submission of application may consider their applications unsuccessful. All application materials will be disposed of after completion of the recruitment exercise. Details of the University's Personal Information Collection Statement can be found at https://hro.hkbu.edu.hk/en/worklife-at-hkbu/employee-favourable-environment.html#privacy-policy.

The University reserves the right not to make an appointment for the post advertised, and the appointment will be made according to the terms and conditions applicable at the time of offer.

Review of applications is ongoing until the position is filled.