Contract type : Fixed-term contract
Level of qualifications required : PhD or equivalent
Fonction : Post-Doctoral Research Visit
The Inria centre at Université Côte d'Azur includes 37 research teams and 8 support services. The centre's staff (about 500 people) is made up of scientists of different nationalities, engineers, technicians and administrative staff. The teams are mainly located on the university campuses of Sophia Antipolis and Nice as well as Montpellier, in close collaboration with research and higher education laboratories and establishments (Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, INRAE, INSERM ...), but also with the regiona economic players.
With a presence in the fields of computational neuroscience and biology, data science and modeling, software engineering and certification, as well as collaborative robotics, the Inria Centre at Université Côte d'Azur is a major player in terms of scientific excellence through its results and collaborations at both European and international levels.
Recent advances in computational mass spectrometry-based metabolomics have unleashed a massive amount of chemical knowledge from metabolomics analysis. Yet, there is a need for a comprehensive computational framework that can better integrate the information derived from both experimental and computational analyses and help chemists analyse their results.
We invite applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher position at the Nice Chemistry Institute (ICN) and the Wimmics team at Inria both hosted at the Université Côte d’Azur. The selected candidate will be jointly embedded and interact with PhD students and research engineers of the Interdisciplinary Institute for Artificial Intelligence (3iA) TechPool, and operates in the context of international collaboration between France and Switzerland. The position is initially offered for one year, with the possibility of extension up to three years.
Key contacts are:
The selected candidate will contribute to the development of a proof of concept obtained at University Côte d’Azur for accessing the content of a metabolomics knowledge graph (KG) with a large language model. It is Python prototype of a metabolomics assistant available as conversational agent that:
The topic of natural language access to knowledge graphs is gaining a growing attention both in top international academic conferences and in international industrial conferences. The ICN has a background in knowledge graphs representation and processing for mass spectrometry and metabolomics. The Wimmics team specializes in different AI techniques for knowledge graph providing open-source tools and has a long history in coupling natural language techniques and knowledge graphs.
The R&D programme for that position includes several tasks:
A longer-term perspective of the project is to consider other tasks than the support to accessing the content of graph. Methodologically, we imagine extending the previous steps to consider tasks such as contributing, maintaining, validating or semantically enriching a knowledge graph.
Gross Salary: 2788 € per month
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Defence Security :
This position is likely to be situated in a restricted area (ZRR), as defined in Decree No. 2011-1425 relating to the protection of national scientific and technical potential (PPST).Authorisation to enter an area is granted by the director of the unit, following a favourable Ministerial decision, as defined in the decree of 3 July 2012 relating to the PPST. An unfavourable Ministerial decision in respect of a position situated in a ZRR would result in the cancellation of the appointment.
Recruitment Policy :
As part of its diversity policy, all Inria positions are accessible to people with disabilities.
We are looking for candidates who have (i) a solid engineering experience in AI or bioinformatics or (ii) a PhD in computational biology / computational metabolomics or proteomics.
The candidate should also be autonomous in conducting softare development, compiling surveys, conducting experiments and planning the work.
Essential qualities in order to fulfil this assignment are feeling at ease in a dynamic international scientific environment.
The candidate must be passionate about innovation, with expertise in knowledge graphs and large language models.
Inria is the French national research institute dedicated to digital science and technology. It employs 2,600 people. Its 200 agile project teams, generally run jointly with academic partners, include more than 3,500 scientists and engineers working to meet the challenges of digital technology, often at the interface with other disciplines. The Institute also employs numerous talents in over forty different professions. 900 research support staff contribute to the preparation and development of scientific and entrepreneurial projects that have a worldwide impact.
Inria is the French national research institute with world-leading research and technological innovation are an integral part of its DNA.
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