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        Date: 2026-02-20 06:10:41+00:00
        From: Stuart M. McManus <mcmanus.stuart.m@gmail.com>
        Subject: Postdoctoral Fellow(s) – Cross Cultural Analytics (Data Science, NLP, Computational Linguistics, Computational Humanities) - (26000063)

Postdoctoral Fellow(s) – Cross Cultural Analytics (Data Science, NLP,
Computational Linguistics, Computational Humanities) - (26000063)

The Chinese University of Hong Kong invites applications for two full‑time
Postdoctoral Fellows to join an interdisciplinary data science project
using large‑scale text data, NLP, knowledge graphs, and AI‑driven methods
to study the historical influence of Chinese culture in Europe and North
America (1550–1900).

Applicant should have (i) a PhD (by the time of reporting duty) in Computer
Science, NLP / Computational Linguistics, Data Science, Machine Learning,
Computational Humanities, or a closely related technical field; (ii) strong
programming skills in Python and experience with modern NLP tools and ML
frameworks; (iii) experience working with textual data (tokenization,
embeddings, transformers, OCR, or corpus processing); and (iv) the ability
to work in an interdisciplinary environment and manage research tasks
independently. Preference will be given to applicants with (1) experience
with multilingual NLP (especially English, French, Latin, or Spanish).
Knowledge of Chinese is an advantage but not required; (2) background in
digital text pipelines, LLM‑based OCR correction, graph neural networks
(GNN), or semantic search; and (3) interest—but not prior training
required—in cultural analytics or historical text analysis.

The appointee(s) will be responsible for (a) developing and applying NLP
and data‑science methods (OCR correction, semantic search, intertextuality
detection, knowledge‑graph modelling, train a graph neural network); (b)
supporting construction and processing of large multilingual historical
corpora; (c) co‑authoring research papers for digital humanities /
computational linguistics / NLP venues (Venues will be chosen in
collaboration with the postdoctoral fellows); and (iv) working together
with an international research team (China, Europe and North America) and
contributing to project workshops and events.

Appointment will initially be made on contract basis for up to eighteen
months commencing 30 June 2026, renewable subject to good performance and
mutual agreement.

Applicants should submit the following documents in the online application:
(1) a cover letter describing relevant experience; (2) updated curriculum
vitae; (3) a research writing sample (e.g. published journal article or
conference paper); and (4) contact information for two referees.

Review of applications will commence on 15 March 2026 and will continue
until the positions are filled.

For enquiries, please contact the Principal Investigator, Professor Stuart
McManus, at smcmanus@cuhk.edu.hk.

The University only accepts and considers applications submitted online for
the post above via the CUHK career site. For more information and to apply
online, please visit
https://cuhk.taleo.net/careersection/cu_career_non_teach/jobdetail.ftl?job=26000
063&utm_source=jorahk&utm_campaign=jorahk&utm_medium=organic



Prof. Stuart M. McManus, FRAS 馬思途教授
Director, Research Institute for the Humanities
Associate Professor, Department of History 
Affiliated Scholar, CCTL, Faculty of Law
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Departmental website
<http://www.history.cuhk.edu.hk/profile/stuart-m-mcmanus/>


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