Senior Research Assistant

SUTD is the world’s first Design AI university. With Design AI, artificial intelligence is treated as a partner and a member of the team – not just a tool. As a result of this unique SUTD treatment, AI and humans brainstorm, spar and prototype together, resulting in solutions that are elevated several-fold. This human-AI team concept has been made possible because of SUTD’s unique cohort-based interdisciplinary pedagogy. As a trailblazer in the field of design and technology education and research, SUTD has been pioneering innovative programmes and initiatives since its formation 16 years ago. As part its new mid-term growth strategy called SUTD Leap, it will work closely with industry to co-create solutions in both education and research – for a better world. The group of Prof. Yihan Du at SUTD is recruiting Senior Research Assistants. The Senior Research Assistant will work on research projects related to reinforcement learning (RL), RL theory, and RL applications in large language models (LLMs). Responsibilities include conducting theoretical analysis of RL algorithms, running experiments to evaluate RL algorithms, and writing research papers. Requirements : Applicants should hold at least a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics or related fields. Prior research experience in machine learning, reinforcement learning or LLMs is preferred. Strong Python programming skills and familiarity with PyTorch or TensorFlow are desirable.