Rakuten Asia, in partnership with the Economic Development Board (EDB) through the Industrial Postgraduate Programme (IPP), is seeking new PhD students with a robust understanding of deep learning, machine learning, and natural language processing to contribute to innovative research projects.

Proven hands-on expertise and strong engineering skillsets, specifically in the development and training of PyTorch models.

Candidates selected for this programme will receive full sponsorship for their postgraduate studies and will be hired by Rakuten Asia upon successful completion.

The collaboration will include joint supervision of PhD students, shared infrastructure access for large-scale experiments, and regular research exchange. Outputs will include publications, open-source prototypes, and scalable frameworks for personalized LLM deployment.