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September 18, 2025

**Job Description**
The role involves joining a multidisciplinary team on an eBay-funded research project to develop a framework supporting vision-language (V-L) research. This framework will leverage existing pre-trained V-L models to enhance performance in tasks such as matching listings with products, product listing moderation, attribute extraction, and explained relevance prediction. It also has potential future applications as a testbed for customer support chatbots with image understanding and image-based product search.

**Skills & Abilities**
• Strong background in at least two of the following areas: machine learning, natural language processing, large language models, and multimodal processing
• Excellent programming skills
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a collaborative team, often across disciplines
• Experience with scientific writing and the preparation of research outputs

**Qualifications**
Required Degree(s) in:
• Computer Science

**Experience**
Other:
• At least a MSc in computer science
• Very good understanding of how visual language models work and can be used in practical applications

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Experience
Other: • At least a MSc in computer science • Very good understanding of how visual language models work and can be used in practical applications
Work Level
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Employment Type
Research Job
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Supervisor(s)
Professor Constantin Orasan
Supervisor Email
c.orasan@surrey.ac.uk
University of Surrey (Surrey)
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