Postdoc: Normative Diversity in News Recommender Systems

Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 49,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing support for expats

Flexible scheduling

Job summary

Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam has a vacancy for a postdoctoral researcher focused on normative diversity in news recommendations. The aim is to develop recommender systems that inform readers and incorporate societal considerations rather than solely maximizing clicks.

The project explores avenues such as multi-objective reranking, reader experiments, newsroom dashboards, and NLP pipelines.

Qualifications

• PhD in AI or related field with focus on recommender systems.
• Experience with diversity, fairness, or inclusivity in data.
• Excellent English communication; ability to work across disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Develop recommender systems prioritizing normative diversity.
• Experiment with readers to test information needs.
• Build a dashboard for newsroom control.
• Create NLP pipelines to extract information from text.

Skills

Recommender systems

Diversity / fairness

Interdisciplinary collaboration

English communication

Education

PhD in AI or related field

Tools

Python

NLP libraries

Job description

Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam has a vacancy for a postdoctoral researcher focused on normative diversity in news recommendations. The aim is to develop recommender systems that inform readers and incorporate societal considerations rather than solely maximizing clicks.

The project explores avenues such as multi-objective reranking, reader experiments, newsroom dashboards, and NLP pipelines.