GenAI Research Fellow

Working with Dr Amrit Kaur Purba (Principal Investigator), and interdisciplinary collaborators, they will lead on human annotation, codebook development, multimodal embedding generation, model training and refinement, and large-scale inference workflows. The project engages UK-government stakeholders, reflecting its policy relevance.

Applicants should hold a postgraduate degree, ideally a doctoral degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, computational social science, data science, or a related computational discipline.
Applicants must have experience with digital trace/multimedia datasets and in: multimodal AI, machine-learning, human annotation, multimodal embedding generation, model training and refinement, large-scale inference pipelines, or reproducible computational workflows.
Strong programming skills (e.g., Python) implementing computational analytical pipelines and familiarity with machine-learning frameworks are required.

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world's leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to achieve excellence in public and global health research, education and translation of knowledge into policy and practice., The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is committed to being an equal opportunities employer. We believe that when people feel respected and included, they can be more creative, successful, and happier at work. While we have more work to do, we are committed to building an inclusive workplace, a community that everyone feels a part of, which is safe, respectful, supportive and enables all to reach their full potential.
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The salary will be on the LSHTM salary scale, Grade 6 in the range £45,728 - £50,854 per annum pro rata (inclusive of London Weighting). The post will be subject to the LSHTM terms and conditions of service. Annual leave entitlement is 30 working days per year, pro rata for part time staff. In addition to this there are discretionary "Wellbeing Days". Membership of the Pension Scheme is available. The post is based in London at LSHTM.