Postdoc in Mental Health, Affective Computing and Machine Learning

              Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science

              University of Pittsburg, School of Medicine

*** US citizenship or a green card is required to be eligible for consideration. ***

The Multimodal Communication and Machine Learning Laboratory (MultiComp Lab) at Carnegie Mellon University is seeking creative and energetic applicants for a two-year postdoctoral position. This opportunity is part of NIMH-funded training program based at the University of Pittsburg School of Medicine. The position includes a competitive salary with full benefits and travel resources.

Using recent progress in machine learning and artificial intelligence, the postdoc will study patient’s multimodal behaviors (verbal, visual and vocal) during semi-structured clinical interviews to identify behavior markers of mental health disorders (e.g., depression, schizophrenia, suicidal ideation). The postdoc will work under the supervision of Dr. Louis-Philippe Morency (CMU MultiComp Lab’s director), in collaboration with clinicians and researchers at University of Pittsburgh’s Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic.

The successful applicant will have an extensive research experience in automatic multimodal behavior analysis in the mental health domain, including facial and gesture analysis, acoustic signal processing, linguistic computation and multimodal machine learning.

Required

• PhD in computer science or mental-health related field (at the time of hire)
• Research experience in human behavior analysis, affective computing and machine learning
• US citizenship or a green card is required to be eligible for consideration

Desired

• Publications in top machine learning, speech processing and/or computer vision conferences and journals.
• Research involving clinical patients with mental health disorders (e.g., depression, schizophrenia, suicidal ideation)
• Experience mentoring graduate and undergraduate students

Job details

• Preferred start date: May 1^st, 2017 (negotiable)
• Candidate will work under the supervision of Dr. Louis-Philippe Morency, MultiComp Lab’s director, at CMU Pittsburgh campus.
• Research will be performed in collaboration with clinicians and researchers at University of Pittsburgh’s Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic.
• Competitive salary with full benefits and travel resources.

How to apply

• Email applications should be sent to morency@cs.cmu.edu with the title “Postdoc application – NIMH program”
• A single PDF file titled FirstNameLastName.pdfshould be attached to the email, including:
  • a brief cover letter (with expected date of availability),
  • a CV including list of publications and email addresses of 3 references,
  • two representative publications (including full citation information)

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Louis-Philippe Morency

Assistant Professor

School of Computer Science

Carnegie Mellon University

Multimodal Commination and Machine Learning Laboratory

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~morency/