Financial Language Models Research Assistant

Advance your research career at RISC as a Research Assistant focusing on financial language models. This four-month position allows for collaboration with leading academic and industry experts to tackle model hallucinations.

In this role, you will engage with Dr. Ed Furman and Dr. Walid Mnif, undertaking a project to enhance risk assessment in financial disclosures. The selected candidate will need to leverage a strong background in statistics, mathematics, and computer science to address critical industry challenges. This position has potential for developing publishable research on cutting-edge topics.

Key Responsibilities:
• Build a risk scorer based on incoming financial queries
• Analyze structured patterns in model errors
• Ensure statistical guarantees against hallucinations
• Differentiate between model errors and unanswerable questions
• Collaborate in a diverse and innovative research environment

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