Research Fellow, Learning Sciences & AI in Education

Nanyang Technological University Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 45,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

The National Institute of Education invites applications for a Research Fellow on a 5‑month contract in the Learning Sciences & Assessment Department. You will refine LLMs to support interdisciplinary learning, handle large data analyses, and publish findings in international journals and conferences.

You will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of researchers in education, AI, and HCI, and independently design/evaluate experiments. Strong communication and teamwork are essential.

Qualifications

• PhD in relevant field required.
• Experience with educational data mining and AI for education.
• Proficiency with LLMs, programming, fine-tuning, evaluation.
• Quantitative methods and computational techniques.

Responsibilities

• Conduct independent and collaborative research.
• Contribute to ongoing projects: data collection and analysis.
• Disseminate findings in high-impact journals and conferences.
• Support Principal Investigators with duties as assigned.

Skills

Independent researcher

Experiment design

Educational data mining

AI for education

LLMs

Python

R

Qualitative research

Statistical analysis

Team collaboration

Education

PhD in Learning Sciences, Educational Technology, HCI, IT, AI, or related field

Tools

Python

R

Job description

The National Institute of Education invites applications for a Research Fellow on a 5‑month contract in the Learning Sciences & Assessment Department. You will refine LLMs to support interdisciplinary learning, handle large data analyses, and publish findings in international journals and conferences.

You will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of researchers in education, AI, and HCI, and independently design/evaluate experiments. Strong communication and teamwork are essential.