Your role
* Join the at the ZHAW Centre for Artificial Intelligence as a fully funded PhD student, contributing to the international and interdisciplinary Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) project focusing on developing reliable conversational AI systems for domain-specific multimodal data exploration and analysis
* Earn your PhD degree through the collaborative program with the University of Zurich
* Benefit from world-class training and mentorship by leading experts while tackling cutting-edge, practice-oriented research challenges and driving innovation.
* Experience international mobility through a research stay abroad (at CNRS in Grenoble, France) and participate in workshops, conferences, and training programs
* Develop and implement high-quality, innovative multimodal AI approaches to enhance large language models with features like factuality, interpretability, soundness, and guidance
* Drive the adaptation and evaluation of the developed conversational AI system for a real-world medical use case in close collaboration with domain experts from University Hospital Zurich, specifically exploring and analysing patient-specific multimodal medical data
* Disseminate your research findings through publications and presentations in peer-reviewed journals and conferences
* Provide occasional teaching support to lecturers
Your profile
* A strong interest in conversational multimodal AI, AI explainability and AI in healthcare, with prior experience in these domains being advantageous
* Proficiency in software development (ideally Python) and familiarity with deep learning frameworks and tools like PyTorch
* Participate in a secondment abroad to develop innovative explainability methodologies for the systems
* Experience with generative AI is beneficial
* Excellent English language skills
* Have nor resided or carried out main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Switzerland for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior the recruitment (since October 2022 if starting in October 2025)
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