Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Bengaluru campus invites applications for the position of postdoctoral fellows to conduct advanced research in digitization of heritage documents in Indian Scripts.
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Job Title
Postdoctoral fellows @ Heritage Documents Digitilization

Location
Bengaluru, Karnataka

Required Number
1

Qualification
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Data Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Information Technology, or a closely related quantitative field.

Job Description

Publish findings in high-impact, peer-reviewed journals (IEEE, Springer, Elsevier) and top-tier AI/computer vision conferences (CVPR, ICCV, ICDAR).

Identify novel algorithms, processing pipelines, or hardware-software integrations developed during the project for processing of patent applications to protect core institutional IP.

Translate research models into functional software.

Design, develop, and deploy robust, user-friendly applications and pipelines for digital archiving, interactive transcription, and text searchability.





Technical Expertise: Robust background in collection & annotation of heritage documents (palm leaf documents) and implementation of Segmentation Free Character Recognition Technologies; Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Document Image Processing.

Development Skills: Proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks (PyTorch or TensorFlow). Experience with application deployment, API development (FastAPI/Flask), and front-end tools or version control (Git).

Track Record: A proven history of publications in SCI/Scopus-indexed journals or core computing conferences.

Desirable Qualifications

Prior experience handling historical manuscripts, degraded document analysis, or low-resource Indic/Asian scripts.

Understanding of the patent filing lifecycle and prior art searching.

Experience with cloud computing platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) for model hosting.

Job Category
Research

Last Date to Apply
July 31, 2026

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