The COMPASS NLP Lab is a recently formed lab led by PI Shira Wein at the University of South Florida in the Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing. COMPASS invites applicants for a full-time post-doctoral research position. The initial contract is for one year with a flexible start date. The selected applicant can begin as soon as September 30, 2026 with the role being renewable for up to four years.
This research group focuses on multilingual natural language processing, computational semantics, and model interpretability. Learn more about the lab here: https://shirawein.github.io/?page=research
And here are some representative publications from the past three years:
Lost in Translation, and Found: Detecting and Interpreting Translation Effects (ACL 2026, https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.781/)
Generating Text from Uniform Meaning Representation (IJCNLP-AACL 2025: Outstanding Paper Award Winner, https://aclanthology.org/2025.ijcnlp-long.16/)
Can Uniform Meaning Representation Help GPT-4 Translate from Indigenous Languages? (ACL 2025, https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-short.23/)
Assessing the Cross-linguistic Utility of Abstract Meaning Representation (Computational Linguistics 2024, https://aclanthology.org/2024.cl-2.1/)
MASSIVE Multilingual Abstract Meaning Representation: A Dataset and Baselines for Hallucination Detection (*SEM 2024, https://aclanthology.org/2024.starsem-1.1/)
The University of South Florida (USF) is a top university with multiple NLP groups and nearly 100 scientific staff. The lab has access to advanced computing resources. USF is located in sunny Tampa, Florida.
Applicants should have a PhD in Computer Science or Computational Linguistics and a particular interest in semantics and/or interpretability. They should be fluent in English, be excited to mentor students, and have experience with high-performance computing clusters. Applications received by September 15 will receive full consideration, but applications will be considered continuously on a rolling basis.
To apply, please send (1) a cover letter including the names of three references, (2) a curriculum vitae (including full list of publications), and (3) a brief research statement describing the candidates’ interests and research (up to three pages) as PDF files to Shira Wein at shirawein [at] usf.edu.