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Recruitment

Academic Employment Opportunities at the NII, Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division, Yamagishi Lab, Project Researcher (Specified fixed-term employment, Postdoctoral Fellow)

2025/01/06

1. Job title：

Postdoctoral fellow
* Successful applicants may be assigned the Project Assistant Professor title based on performance.

2. Number of recruits：

3. Work location：

National Institute of Informatics (Gakujutsu Sougou Center, Hitotsubashi 2-1-2, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)
Directions: 3-5 minutes walk from exit A8 of the Jimbocho subway station on the Toei Shinjuku Line or exit 1b of the Takebashi subway station on the Tozai Line (refer to the map).
URL: https://www.nii.ac.jp/en/

4. Affiliation：

Yamagishi Lab, Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division, National Institute of Informatics

5. Job description：

The selected candidate will work on the JST AIP Acceleration Project, "Acceleration and Dissemination of Social Implementation of Fake Media Detection Technology" (FY2024 - FY2025) and NEDO K Program, "Research and Development on Disinformation Detection, Evaluation, and Platform" (FY2024 - FY2027) in collaboration with members of the Yamagishi Laboratory of the National Institute of Informatics.

In the above project, the selected candidate is expected to research multimedia deepfake detection technology as one of the media analysis technologies to counter disinformation while also exploring machine learning methods that can automatically keep up with new, unknown deepfakes. Therefore, the candidate must have sufficient experience and program implementation capabilities in the following areas: audio information processing, image processing, deep learning, machine learning, AI security, and other related technologies.

The candidate is expected to work on one of the following topics

Speech information processing (especially audio-visual deepfake detection, localization, etc.)
Image processing (especially multi-modal deepfake detection, localization, face recognition, etc.)
Machine learning (especially AI security)

Yamagishi Lab, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
NII Synthetiq Vision

6. Requirements：

Having a PhD degree or is expected to have a PhD degree when admitted
Having experience in any or multiple research topics listed above
Being able to communicate in Japanese or English and to write international conference papers and journal articles
Having experience in implementing and experimenting with deep learning

7. Period of employment：

The starting date is negotiable
It is possible to extend the employment period based on the research outcomes and availability of the research budget.
However, the maximum employment period is up to 2028 March 31st. The contract is renewed every year.

8. Workdays：

Five days a week, Monday through Friday

Days off: Saturdays, Sundays, public holidays, and year-end and New Year's holidays (December 29 - January 3).
Summer vacation: Any two consecutive days between August 12 and 18, excluding Saturdays and Sundays.

9. Working hours：

Seven hours and 45 minutes per day under a discretionary work system.

10. Leave of absence：

Conferred by regulations:

Annual paid leave
Vacation other than annual paid leave

11. Salary：

Provided based on regulations

Basic salary: 443,000 Yen ~ 628,000 Yen per month (based on working experience and degree of expertise)
Commuting allowance: Amount paid to cover actual commuting costs (there is a limit)
Payday: At month-end closing, generally on the 17th of the same month

12. Insurance：

Employment and workers' compensation insurance is covered by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Mutual Aid Association by laws and regulations.

13. Application document：

Please submit the application documents to the following email address with the specified title:
Title: Yamagishi-Lab Project Researcher Application
Email: yamaghishilab-sec (at) nii.ac.jp

Resume in the format specified by ROIS (download from NII webpage. Please fill in academic background, academic degrees, and awards; please paste photo and seal; please include email address and phone number)
List of research outcomes (list in the following order: thesis, peer-viewed journal paper, peer-viewed conference paper, non-peer-viewed publication)
Copy of primary research papers (3 papers at maximum)
Summary of research to date, and research plans and expectations for the above subject (about 1 page of A4 paper)
Contact information of two references

14. Selection procedure：

After screening documents, you will be contacted for an interview date, if necessary. Online interviews may be conducted.

Please note that the applicant will pay travel expenses for onsite interviews/visits and communication expenses for online interviews.

15. Notification of application results：

Applicants will be promptly notified of the results of the selection process.

16. Deadline of application：

It ends as soon as one applicant is admitted.

17. Inquiries and Email address to send applications：

National Institute of Informatics, Yamagishi Lab
To Junichi Yamagishi
Email：　yamagishilab-sec (at) nii.ac.jp 　please replace (at) with @

18. Employer：

Inter-University Research Institute Corporation
Research Organization of Information and Systems
Director Masaru Kitsuregawa

19. Miscellaneous：

Any questions shall be asked to the email address above.
We will only use the personal information submitted in this recruitment to screen the application. We will destroy all personal information after application. Please note that the personal information of the hired staff will be used for various recruitment procedures in the office, such as personnel affairs, labor, and salary-related processing.
NII actively promotes female researchers as a part of gender equality. In this recruitment, women will be actively hired if they are found to be equivalent in their performance (research achievements, educational achievements, social contributions, etc.).