LLM Research Assistant: Persona-Based Social Simulations

National University of Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 48,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

The National University of Singapore invites applications for the position of Research Assistant in the School of Computing. We are seeking highly motivated and skilled individuals to work on persona-based social simulations for aiding policy design.

This position focuses on building and evaluating novel LLM-based systems for computational social simulations that can support policy design. You will work closely with the Principal Investigator and other group members on the project.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's with Honors or Master's in CS/AI or related disciplines.
• Experience building AI/ML applications, LLM fine-tuning, and RAG systems.
• Ability to process large-scale datasets with Pandas, R, SQL for evaluating simulations.
• Interest in agent-based modelling or synthetic user research platforms.

Responsibilities

• Develop LLM-based agent architectures for multilingual populations.
• Build and evaluate persona-based simulations for policy design.
• Collaborate with researchers and faculty to advance the project.
• Contribute to high-quality publications and conference/journal presentations.

Skills

AI/ML applications

LLM fine-tuning

RAG systems

Python

Multilingual data processing

Education

Bachelor's with Honors or Master's degree in CS/AI or related.

Tools

Python

PyTorch

LLM APIs

RAG systems

Agent-based frameworks

Pandas

SQL

Job description

The National University of Singapore invites applications for the position of Research Assistant in the School of Computing. We are seeking highly motivated and skilled individuals to work on persona-based social simulations for aiding policy design.

This position focuses on building and evaluating novel LLM-based systems for computational social simulations that can support policy design. You will work closely with the Principal Investigator and other group members on the project.