Recipients profile/category

Mandatory requirements: Computer Science BSc. Be enrolled in a Computer Science MSc.
• The documents proving this situation must be presented, at the latest, until the stage of contracting the scholarship, and before that, they can be replaced by a declaration of honour.

Preferential factors:
• Expertise in machine learning, information retrieval, natural language processing.
• Expertise in conversational models and systems.
• Expertise in vision models in language.
• Experience in pre-training and fine-tuning of large language models.
• Experience in Retrieval-Augmented Generation with language models.
• Programming experience in Python and PyTorch

Monthly maintenance allowance amount: The amount of the monthly maintenance allowance corresponds to €1.040.98 euros with reference to the table of values of the scholarships awarded directly by FCT, I.P. in the country, and the payment is made monthly by bank transfer.

Selection criteria
A classification will be made, on a scale of 0 to 20, taking into account the weighting of the following selection methods: a) motivation letter (20%), b) curriculum vitae (40%), and c) experience in the area of research/previous knowledge of concepts and technologies relevant to
the execution of the project (40%).All applications will be evaluated on a scale from 0 to 20. Candidates who do not achieve a minimum score of 15, as determined by the selection committee based on the evaluation criteria, will not be hired.

Composition of the Selection Jury
President: Professor João Magalhães
Effective members: Professor David Semedo, Professor Rui Nóbrega
Alternate members: Professor Nuno Correia and Professor Joaquim Silva.

Form of advertising/notification of results
The evaluation results proposed by the juri will be notified, up to 90 days after the deadline for the submission of applications, by email, of the results proposed by the jury, with access to the minutes and the final ranking list.
After notification, candidates will have 10 working days to comment on the draft decision (prior hearing of interested parties, under the terms of the Code of Administrative Procedure). The final decision will be taken after the expiry of the prior hearing period, again notified to all candidates by e-mail. Of this final decision the candidates can file a complaint within 15 working days (to the e-mail address used for the notification), or a hierarchical appeal, within
30 working days, addressed to NOVA.ID.FCT's Board through the address to coord1@novaidfct.pt.

Drafts:
The drafts of: i) fellowship contract, ii) final report to be presented by the fellowship holder, iii) final report to be presented by the scientific advisor, and; iv) declaration on honor, can all be found on NOVA.id.FCT website.