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Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution PhD Position in the Statistical Modeling of Linguistic Evolution 80 % Start of employment 1 September 2025 or by agreement, temporary The Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution (ISLE) at the University of Zurich (UZH) offers a PhD training and research position in the statistical modeling of linguistic evolution under varied conditions. The work will be tightly integrated with the Diversification project of the NCCR Evolving Language (https://evolvinglanguage.ch/diversification-project/). You will join Professor Balthasar Bickel's Distributional Linguistics Lab and will be integrated into the NCCR Evolving Language, a Swiss network of scientists from the natural, social, cognitive, and computational sciences working together on the evolution of language. Your dissertation will be supervised by Balthasar Bickel, Chundra Cathcart, and Anna Graff. Employment is at...

The position can lead to a joint PhD between Zurich University of Applied Sciences and University of Zurich. School:  School of Engineering Starting date:  September 2025, or by mututal agreement. Application deadline: 30.06.2025 Your role Contribute to research projects in the area of natural language processing and machine learning for structured and unstructured data, e.g. databases, texts and images. Collaborate with project partners both in academia and industry. Advance our research prototypes in the area of natural language interfaces for multi-modal data exploration (relational data, texts, images) based on advanced machine learning techiques. Establish a strong research track record as well as a successful footprint in data engineering. Your profile The successful candidate has completed a Master's degree in computer science or other relevant fields. She or he must have prior exposure...

Introduction A leading international teaching and research institution, UNIL has nearly 5,000 employees and 17,000 students, spread between the Dorigny campus and the CHUV and Epalinges sites. As an employer, it encourages excellence, personal recognition, and responsibility. www.unil.ch/carrieres Presentation The Department of Computational Biology (DBC) is internationally recognized for its research excellence in developing models for analyzing complex, large-scale biological data. The DBC is seeking a junior researcher with a strong focus on computational biology and the modeling of biological systems. Their research should focus on developing computational approaches for biology, with an emphasis on AI and image analysis. Interaction with the recently established Dubochet Center for Imaging is strongly encouraged. One or more of the following should be addressed in the application: Machine learning and...

Department of Quantitative Biomedicine, Medical Informatics PhD position in AI for Cancer Genomics 100 % Start of employment is Q2 of 2025 The Wicki Lab (at the University and University Hospital of Zurich) and the Krauthammer lab (at the University of Zurich) are seeking a motivated PhD candidate to join a recently established team from both labs working on the AI Tumorboard project improving precision oncology. The candidate will develop and apply novel AI models for the analysis of multi-omic data to advance cancer treatment decisions. Your responsibilities The goal of this position is to combine genomics and machine-learning approaches to improve personalised cancer care. Key focus areas are: Genomic foundation models for processing multi-omic data of cancer patients Liquid biopsy for disease monitoring Developing predictive models integrating multi-omics and clinical data in order to identify clinically actionable...

Are you excited about impactful scientific research in healthcare and have a strong interest in developing innovative, explainable multimodal AI for disease diagnosis? Join us as a PhD student to shape the future of AI-powered healthcare! School:  School of Engineering Starting date:  July 1st 2025 or by appointment Your role Join the Explainable AI research group at the ZHAW Centre for Artificial Intelligence as a fully funded PhD student, working on an interdisciplinary research project focused on explainable multimodal AI methodologies for healthcare Earn your PhD degree through the collaborative program with the University of Zurich Make significant contributions to scientifically challenging applied research project developing innovative explainable multimodal AI approaches for early diagnosis of multiple chronic diseases Develop high-quality, innovative AI solutions that effectively leverage multimodal medical data to...