Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) is the world’s first graduate AI research university and is already ranked in the world’s top 20 by CSRankings for AI. Currently MBZUAI is home to 230 Master’s students and 135 PhD students and over 80 world leading faculty members led by its President, Eric Xing. The university offers MSc and PhD degrees in five programs: machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, robotics, and computer science. It will soon launch graduate programs in human-computer interaction, statistics & data science, and computational biology. For more information about MBZUAI, see https://mbzuai.ac.ae/

The Natural Language Processing (NLP) department of Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) invites applications for multiple tenured/tenure-track positions at all ranks (assistant, associate, and full professor). We welcome applicants specializing in any area of speech and language processing.

The NLP department has a vibrant research environment led by over 15 faculty members and is a driving force in shaping the next generation of NLP technologies. It generates new knowledge, explores new frontiers, and contributes to solving some of the most pressing challenges in the world today. Whether it is in the realms of large language models, their underlying mechanisms and responsible applications, dialog systems, chatbots, Arabic NLP, machine translation, efficient and low resource NLP, speech recognition, multimodality (language speech/images/video), or understanding the subtleties of language, MBZUAI’s NLP department is at the forefront of innovation.

Applicants must have a PhD in speech or natural language processing or a closely related area. They should have a solid track record of conducting innovative and impactful research and evidence of strong mentoring skills commensurate with rank sought. MBZUAI offers an attractive remuneration package and generous start-up funds to stimulate cutting-edge research and to support faculty in building strong research programs.

If you are interested in joining our team, click here to apply. Please include the following in your application:

• A cover letter
• A statement of research vision and interests
• A statement of teaching interests, experience, and philosophy
• A current Curriculum Vitae
• A list of publications.
• The names and contact information of three referees. Reference letters submitted by applicants will not be accepted.