PhD in Natural Language Processing

The Natural Language Processing Section at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen invites applicants for a Ph.D Fellow in Natural Language Processing. The project aims to advance the theory and application of language models that can process any written language by rendering text as images. It includes creating and implementing tokenization-free multilingual language models, collecting and curating visually diverse language data, training both small-scale and large-scale language models, and developing hybrid models that jointly process tokenizer-based and tokenizer-free representations./nThe position is housed within the main Science Campus in central Copenhagen. The start date is expected to be 1 September 2026. The position is funded by a Carlsberg Foundation Semper Ardens: Accelerate Grant held by the principal investigator, Desmond Elliott.