Research Assistant, Data and Knowledge Engineering

চাকরির বিবরণ

East West University (EWU) is seeking applications for two Research Assistant positions in a research project entitled 'AI-Powered East West University Assistants: From Conversational AI to Knowledge-Verified Institutional Intelligence for Academic Support', funded by the EWU Center for Research and Training (EWUCRT). Contractual, project-based appointment for the project duration (12 months). Salary: BDT 20,000 consolidated per month. How to apply: submit an application with a current CV to Dr. Mohammad Rifat Ahmmad Rashid, Principal Researcher, at rifat.rashid@ewubd.edu by 1 November 2026, mentioning the position name in the email subject line. Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted. This posting is for Research Assistant (Data and Knowledge Engineering).

দায়িত্ব

• Collect and curate EWU institutional documents (academic policies, course catalogue, prerequisites, advising guides, FAQs), perform data preprocessing, annotation and quality checking, build and maintain the document store, vector database and institutional knowledge graph, and apply PII filtering and redaction at ingestion
• Conduct literature reviews on large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, knowledge graphs and AI assistants in higher education, and assist in preparing the system design and evaluation protocol
• Administer surveys, feedback forms and interviews with students, faculty and administrative staff; maintain anonymized chatbot interaction logs and user analytics for response-time, accuracy, satisfaction and workload analysis
• Support the weekly human audit of a stratified random sample of AI-generated responses for factual accuracy against official policy, and maintain documentation of prompts, codes, scripts, model checkpoints and experiment records
• Prepare figures, tables, technical summaries, progress reports and presentations, assist in manuscript preparation and dissemination of outcomes, and perform other research-related tasks assigned by the Principal Investigator/Co-Investigators

যোগ্যতা

• Experience with data collection, cleaning and annotation, databases and vector stores (FAISS, Chroma, Qdrant) and interest in knowledge graphs (Neo4j/Cypher) will be an advantage
• Minimum B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, Software Engineering, Data Science, Information Technology or a related discipline from a recognized university; M.Sc. or final-stage M.Sc. will be preferred
• Strong programming, analytical and problem-solving skills with proficiency in Python and familiarity with PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers and standard machine learning workflows
• Good communication, documentation and academic writing skills, and willingness to follow institutional data-protection and research ethics requirements
• Experience in research or project work involving data collection, preprocessing, experimentation, analysis, documentation and reporting will be preferred
• Prior experience as a Teaching Assistant, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Research Assistant, intern or in similar academic/research roles will be considered an advantage

দক্ষতা

• Data Annotation
• Knowledge Graphs
• Neo4j
• Python
• Vector Databases