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Ten Reasons Why You Should Join Preferred.AI
We publish
We hold ourselves to a high standard. Our publications appear in top-tier venues. A couple have won awards: IJCAI-PRICAI 2020 Distinguished Paper and AAAI 2014 Honorable Mention. You will aim high.
We achieve
Our PhD candidates have been winning SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellowships for nine years running. You will get things done.
We seek impact
We develop useful libraries and learning materials, teach others, and present our work. You will matter.
We are equipped
We have resources: CPU servers, GPU servers, interesting datasets, <insert what you need>. You will have what you need to pursue high-quality research.
We are diverse
Our members come from all over the world: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, China, Russia, France, Algeria, Greece, Philippines, Sri Lanka, <insert your country here>. You will fit in.
We are up-and-coming
CSRankings.org places SMU at #30 worldwide (Dec'25) for AI areas (incl. KDD). No mean feat for a young school. You will grow along with us.
We plan ahead
Our graduates go on to academic and industrial positions in well-known institutions in USA, Europe, China, Australia, Vietnam, Singapore. You will dream big, and we will work hard together towards it.
We pay
PhD candidates receive scholarships. Most other positions are paid competitive salaries. You will have enough.
We do what's right
We do the right things and get them right. We get the right people and do right by them. You will make the right choice.
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We are growing, and always on the lookout for bright, dedicated, and nice individuals to become a part of us.
- ■ Postdoc candidate has a PhD degree with a promising academic record. Topics considered particularly relevant include: probabilistic graphical modeling, deep learning, topic modeling, recommender systems, dimensionality reduction, similarity search, text mining, and information extraction. A strong background in other data mining and machine learning topics will also be considered.
- ■ PhD Student or Research Engineer candidate has a Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in Computer Science or a closely-related discipline with high academic standing. He or she is competent in programming and data management, with knowledge of data mining and machine learning concepts. Past experience, as well as future interest, in research is a plus.
- ■ Intern or Research Student candidate is someone currently still enrolled in a Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in Computer Science or a closely-related discipline with high academic standing. He or she is competent in programming, with interest and/or experience in data mining or machine learning research.