Position: Postdoctoral Researcher (1 position)
Lab/Unit: Spoken Language Communication (SLC) Lab, School of Artificial Intelligence (SAI), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK‑Shenzhen)
Location: Shenzhen, China | On‑site
Term: 24 months, renewable based on performance and funding
Start date: Flexible (target window:  by June 2026)

Summary
The SLC Lab at CUHK‑Shenzhen invites applications for postdoctoral researchers in speech and language processing, with emphasis on simultaneous speech translation (SimulST), LLM‑based S2T/S2ST, simultaneous policy learning (RL/DPO), streaming alignment (CIF/monotonic attention/Transducer), and multimodal LLMs. The postdoc will drive independent and collaborative research, publish at ACL/EMNLP/AAAI/ICLR/ICASSP/INTERSPEECH//TASLP, and mentor students in a fast‑growing AI school.

Responsibilities
- Design/execute research on SimulST, streaming ASR/ST, S2ST, and multimodal LLMs.
- Develop reproducible pipelines (PyTorch/JAX; Hugging Face; ESPnet/Fairseq/NeMo/SpeechBrain).
- Lead papers and presentations at top venues; contribute to grant writing and open‑source releases.
- Co‑supervise graduate students; collaborate within CUHK‑Shenzhen and external partners.

Required qualifications
- Ph.D. in EE/CS/Computational Linguistics or related field by start date.
- Strong publication record in top-tier AI conferences in speech/NLP/ML.
- Proficiency with modern DL toolchains and speech/NLP frameworks.
- Excellent scientific communication in English.

- At the time of contract commencement, the age must be under 35.

Preferred qualifications
- Experience with SimulST/read–write policies, RL/DPO/RLHF, CIF/CTC/monotonic attention, multilingual and low‑resource speech, evaluation (COMET, AL/ATD, WER/TER), robustness/accent/noise, prosody/voice, machine speech chain, and large‑scale training.
- Project leadership and mentoring experience.

Compensation & benefits
Competitive salary commensurate with experience; benefits per CUHK‑Shenzhen policy; travel support to major conferences.

Application
Submit as a single PDF: (1) CV with publications; (2) 1–2 page research statement; (3) up to 3 representative papers; (4) names/emails of 2–3 referees.
Review begins: 15 March 2026; applications accepted until filled.
Contact: snakamura@cuhk.edu.cn