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ISCApad Archive » 2020 » ISCApad #259 » Jobs » (2019-10-19) Postdoctoral Scholar, University South California, USA |
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Friday, January 10, 2020 by Chris Wellekens |
Open Position - Postdoctoral Scholar for Multimodal Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
The University of Southern California?s Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) is an off-campus research facility, located on a creative business campus in the ?Silicon Beach? neighborhood of Playa Vista. We are world leaders in innovative training and education solutions, computer graphics, computer simulations, and immersive experiences for decision-making, cultural awareness, leadership and health. ICT employees are encouraged to develop themselves both professionally and personally, through workshops, invited guest talks, movie nights, social events, various sports teams, a private gym and a personal trainer. The atmosphere at ICT is informal and flexible, while encouraging initiative, personal responsibility and a high work ethic. ? Design and implement state-of-the-art NLP machine learning algorithms to automatically code dyadic MI therapy sessions and predict behavior change in patients.
? Push the envelope on current NLP and multimodal machine learning algorithms to better understand the MI process and outcome.
? Conduct statistical analysis on verbal, nonverbal and dyadic behavioral patterns to describe their relationship with the MI process and outcome.
? Write and lead authorship of high impact conference (ACL, EMNLP, ICMI, CVPR, ICASSP, and Interspeech) and journal papers (PAMI, TAFFC, and TASLP).
? Support and lead graduate, undergraduate students, and summer interns to preprocess and annotate multimodal MI data.
Work collaboratively with: ? Domain experts of MI research to automatically derive meaningful insights for MI research Experts.
? Computer scientists across departments at the highly accomplished and interdisciplinary USC Institute for Creative Technologies
Minimum Experience: At least 1 year of experience working with data compromising human verbal and/or nonverbal behavior.
Minimum Field of Expertise: Directly related education in research specialization with advanced knowledge of equipment, procedures, and analysis methods.
Skills: Comfortable with machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch or Tensorflow Excellent programming skills in Python or C++ Analysis Assessment/evaluation Communication-written and oral skills Organization Planning Problem identification and resolution Project management Research
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