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.

We are looking for an accomplished recent PhD graduate to work on a challenging yet exciting NIH-funded 4-year research project.  The project seeks to understand the process and success of Motivational Interviewing (MI). Specifically, our project will address shortcomings of current MI coding systems by introducing a novel computational framework that leverages our recent advances in automatic verbal and nonverbal behavior analyses as well as multimodal machine learning. Our framework aims to jointly analyze verbal (i.e., what is being said), nonverbal (i.e., how something is said), and dyadic (i.e., in what interpersonal context something is said) behavior to better identify in-session patient behavior that is predictive of post-session alcohol use. The project is heavily focused on machine learning, NLP, and data mining; it requires no data collection as all data has already been collected.

We are looking to add a talented machine learning (NLP, CV, or signal processing focus) Postdoctoral Research Associate to our interdisciplinary team of machine learning scientists, affective computing experts, and psychiatrists.  Join our team's mission to better understand therapy processes and predict outcomes!

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  Have fun & learn while working at ICT with a great team and an incredible mission!


Minimum Education: PhD in computer science or engineering with a focus on NLP, CV signal processing or multimodal machine learning.