PhD Position in Explainable AI at University of Vienna

The University of Vienna offers a PhD position in Explainable AI for Machine Learning and NLP, supervised by Prof. Benjamin Roth, with a deadline of 24 June 2025.

The Data Mining and Machine Learning research group at the University of Vienna is offering a PhD position to work on Explainability for Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. The successful candidate will be supervised by Prof. Benjamin Roth and will join the group as a pre-doctoral researcher for three years.

Research topics may include:

• Personalized explanations of large language models
• Explanations for complex AI agents
• Training data-based explanations
• Usability aspects of explanations
• Evaluation methods for explainable AI

For more information and application details, visit https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/University-assistant-predoctoral/1212525201/. The application deadline is 24 June 2025.

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