CS4248: Natural Language Processing, NUS

18/10/2024

Job opportunity from an alumnus of CS4248 Natural Language Processing:

DataFox Project Opportunity
Description
This is a part-time project opportunity for students to gain experience in Data Science and Machine
Learning. DataFox is an ongoing project by Synergy Marketing Technology Limited based in Hong
Kong. We are a data-driven marketing agency helping real estate agencies generate high-quality
leads. DataFox is a new project initiative that aims to develop a residential real estate metasearch
engine as a service for consumers to evaluate the best valuation and real estate agents to gain
reliable comparable and increase transparency.
The project has 2 components, 1) Creating a listing matching algorithm between multiple listing
services and 2) Build an internal Automated Valuation Model on listings.
The selected candidate will also be sponsored access to a Master’s Level course in “Applying Data
Science and Machine Learning to Real Estate” to assist with training for this project.
https://propertyquants.com/training/
Responsibilities
• Data cleaning and preparation of scraped listings in database
• Address listing matching algorithm
• Build an accurate Automated Valuation Model
• Communicate and present progress and difficulties with Team Lead and Data Science
Consultant
Requirements
• Currently doing a Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Business Analytics preferably Y2 or Y3.
• Strong practical Machine Learning with understanding of Linear Regression, Decision Tree
Methods such as RandomForest, AdaBoost, XGBoost.
• Proficient in Python with competency in packages such as Numpy, Pandas, Scikit-Learn,
StatsModels.
• Proven internship experience or projects in Machine Learning.
• Willingness and ability to quickly learn new concepts. (Will be required to study given
materials independently)
Bonus
• Having completed following coursework: Calculus, Linear Algebra, Regression Analysis,
Machine Learning.
• Knowledge of Web Scraping, Time Series Forecasting, Geospatial Analysis.
• Knowledge of Real Estate market.
Rate: SGD 35 per hour
Estimated Commitment / Workload: 6-8hr per week. 1hr per week for weekly meeting.
Interested candidates, please send your CV (1 page), Cover Letter (50 words, short description of
your interest and experience) and Unofficial Transcript. (There is no GPA cutoff, this is to see your
coursework and how you did in selected and relevant courses) to [email protected]. Please title
the email, ‘DataFox Application’.
Shortlisted candidates will have to complete 1 interview that will involve technical questions and
assess candidate fit with the project.

PropertyQuants is bringing quantitative investment strategies to real estate. We harness data at scale, to find the best investments globally.

28/01/2023

PSA; forwarded from other announcements cross posted.

Dear Innovators,

Intelligence operatives work with massive amounts of data from multiple sources, and organizing and preparing it can be incredibly difficult. When analyzed properly, this data can provide key insights, patterns, and signals that can be used in defence and intelligence analysis.
We want see your skills and solutions for automated data ingestion that can remain agnostic to the different types of data schema, type, and format.

Award pool: $60,000 USD to be distributed
Pitch event: Held in Singapore in 2023 for the top 3 solutions
Deadline: Solutions must be received by 11:59 PM (US Eastern) on 31 January 2023

This opportunity is being offered by a partnership comprising the United States Irregular Warfare Technical Support Directorate (IWTSD), Singapore’s Defence Science Technology Agency (DSTA), and ST Engineering to help advance systems for data and intelligence. We have partnered with Wazoku, a UK-based innovation company, to host the crowdsourcing Challenge and all the details for how to enter.
Keen to learn more about the opportunity? Visit Wazoku’s Challenge Center to find out more today!

Discover the Challenge!
https://challenge-center.community.wazoku.com/challenge/3d4618a1f01d4017b7e4de42fa6c893f?utm_source=Company_Promotion&utm_medium=Web&utm_campaign=Data%20for%20Intelligence%20Analysis

We’re looking forward to seeing how you can revolutionize the future of data! Best regards,


The Irregular Warfare Technical Support Directorate (IWTSD) provides a forum for interagency and international users to discuss mission requirements for Irregular Warfare, prioritize those requirements, fund and manage solutions, and deliver capabilities. The IWTSD accomplishes these objectives through rapid prototyping of novel solutions developed and field-tested before the traditional acquisition systems are fully engaged. This low-risk approach encourages interdepartmental and interagency collaboration, thereby reducing duplication, eliminating capability gaps, and stretching development dollars.


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The Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) is a top-notch technology organisation that drives innovation and delivers state-of-the-art capabilities to make the Singapore Armed Forces a formidable fighting force. Harnessing and exploiting science and technology, engineers and IT professionals at DSTA leverage multidisciplinary expertise to equip soldiers with advanced systems to defend Singapore. DSTA also contributes its technological expertise to support national-level developments. To achieve its mission, DSTA excels in systems engineering, digitalised platforms, cyber, software development and more.

In Partnership with
ST Engineering

ST Engineering is a global technology, defence and engineering group with offices across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the U.S., serving customers in more than 100 countries. The Group uses technology and innovation to solve real-world problems and to enable a more secure and sustainable world/planet through its diverse portfolio of businesses across the aerospace, smart city, defence and public security segments. Headquartered in Singapore, ST Engineering has more than 23,000 employees worldwide with two-thirds in engineering and technology roles.

12/12/2022

Circulating this job announcement on behalf of Dr Nancy F Chen at I2R for a UI/UX engineer related to Speech and NLP. Please contact her directly if interested at the email address below.

JOB DESCRIPTION
The candidate will work on speech and language technology related software development and research on applications such as virtual tutors and virtual clinicians at I2R, A*STAR.

JOB REQUIREMENT
1. Hold a related B.S degree (or above) in Computer Science or Software Engineering
2. Possess basic knowledge and experience in object-oriented programming like Java, Javascript and Python.
3. Hands-on experience of life-cycle of web applications. Expected to develop end-to-end applications individually with basic usage of frontend (e.g. React.js, Vue.js, Ant Design, and ice.js) and backend (e.g. FastAPI, Flask, and Spring) frameworks.
4. Passionate to on working on AI research, knowledge in basic deep learning/machine learning technologies and tools (e.g., Pytorch, Numpy, Scikit-learn).
5. Good communication skills and knowledge of version control tools (e.g. Git, Gitlab). Familiarity of Linux/Unix system commands is also expected.
6. Research experience in spoken or natural language processing is preferred but not required.

Interested candidates please contact Dr. Nancy F. Chen at [email protected]

07/05/2022

Congratulations to all of our CS4248 students for completing their final assessment yesterday and graduating to alumni status 👩🏻‍🎓🧑🏾‍🎓 for our course! 👏👏