COMPETITION FOR N.1 RESEARCH CONTRACT, GROUP 09/IINF-05 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTING SCIENCES AT UNIVERSITÀ COMMERCIALE “LUIGI BOCCONI” DI MILANO

SALMON aims to develop socially aware large language models (LLMs) that interpret social cues, moral values and cultural contexts. Combining social sciences and AI, it will integrate interactive scenarios and real-time feedback into continued pre-training, making social awareness an explicit goal to improve safety, usefulness and alignment with human values. The postdoctoral researcher will develop, implement and assess new methods for data collection, LLM training and evaluation; design experiments and studies with human participants; define objectives and metrics; and analyse model performance. They will conduct quantitative and qualitative analyses, contribute to publications and ensure compliance with ethical guidelines. They will also coordinate annotators and interdisciplinary collaborators, mentor junior team members and support the Principal Investigators in project management.