Doctoral Researcher in Machine Learning for Official Statistics

Your role

The position holder will be required to perform the following tasks/will do research on the following topics:

• Software engineering practices for machine learning
• Tabular machine learning
• Large language models on structured data

As the successful candidate, you will primarily contribute to a partnership project with STATEC, the National Statistics Institute in Luxembourg. The successful candidate will join the Security, Reasoning and Validation (Serval) research group and work on a research project related to the application of machine learning for official statistics. The subject of the thesis will be “Exploring Large Language Models for Data-to-Text Problems” and involves the study of technical methods and approaches for adapting large language models to tasks mixing text and structured data, such as statistical report generation and semantic search across historical statistics publications. Suc...