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PhD in Multimodal NLP for Clinical Reasoning

University of Edinburgh · Prof. Hannah Mercer

Funding: fundedDeadline: 2026-05-15Start: 2026-09-01

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Position overview

Join a multimodal NLP project focused on grounding language models in clinical evidence and image-text data.

Application details

Deadline: 2026-05-15

Funding: funded

Application link: Not confirmed yet

Research themes

multimodalnlphealth ai

Preparation focus

  • reading recent multimodal retrieval papers
  • showing practical NLP experimentation
  • explaining evidence-based evaluation choices

Advisor and lab signals

Prof. Hannah Mercer

hannah.mercer@ed.ac.example
  • Works on multimodal reasoning and language grounding
  • Recent lab outputs connect NLP with high-stakes domains

Past directions

  • cross-modal evidence grounding
  • clinical language understanding

Current directions

  • multimodal reasoning for clinical decision support
  • retrieval-augmented medical NLP

How to prepare

  • Show that you can explain model outputs in evidence-sensitive settings.
  • Highlight projects where language and vision signals had to be combined thoughtfully.
Source confidence: 93% · Last checked Mar 31, 2026, 2:00 AM

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