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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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