Research Intern - Computer Vision (Visuals)

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Huawei’s vision is a fully connected, intelligent world. To achieve this, we work to inspire passion for basic research around the world. Our combined passion drives development across the global innovation value chain. Huawei has the largest Research and Development organization in the world with 96,000+ employees in research centers around the globe. In the UK, we already have design centers in Cambridge, London, Edinburgh and Ipswich. We continue to explore and define new research directions and new services. We have expanded our collaborations with academic researchers; researched new network architectures, integration of communications and key enabling technologies; and developed the fundamental theories of these technologies. We invite you to join us on this exciting journey and drive your career forward.

Job Summary:

We are looking for a Research Intern to join our London Research Centre’s Computer Vision team. In particular, we seek someone with experience in (Visual) Large Language Models and/or multi-modality learning to join us. 

Key Responsibilities:

·       Leading and participating in cutting-edge research projects focusing on multi-modality learning and visual large language models.

·       Writing research papers, we like to show the world our latest findings. 

This job description is only an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The jobholder will carry out any other duties as may be reasonably required by his/her line manager. The job description and personal specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of Huawei Research and Development UK Limited.

Person Specification:

Required:

·       Strong research track record. It is mandatory to have at least one first-author paper in a top-tier venue (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR).

·       Ph.D. student in computer vision or machine learning during the course of the entire internship (we would also recommend applying if you are a strong undergrad/grad student and have first-author papers in the venues listed above).

·       Hands on experience with (visual) large language models or diffusion models

·       Strong coding skills: Ability to quickly prototype in PyTorch (it is okay if you only have Tensorflow or JAX experience).

·       Be updated with state-of-the-art, and like reading lots of papers.

·       Have good written and oral communication skills. 

Desired:

·       Have experience both on Large Language Models and diffusion models, or in their combination such as Diffusion Large Language Models,