Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Emotion AI
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Emotion AI
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Job Summary:
The University of Michigan School of Information seeks a Postdoctoral Fellow to conduct research with Dr. Nazanin Andalibi. You will work with Dr. Andalibi on projects about emotion recognition/emotion AI (and more broadly technologies that infer sensitive information about people) and qualities such as ethics privacy and justice. The position is open to candidates interested in similar areas not squarely within the emotion AI landscape. Please articulate your topical interest and alignment with the position in your application package including in the cover letter.
This work will be part of an NSFfunded project: should have experience leading and publishing research projects. This Postdoctoral Fellowship is designed to support the applicant towards advancing their career via scholarly impact mentorship and collaboration.
Additional Information:
This appointment is for 12 months. Your performance will be reviewed with Dr. Andalibi. There will be opportunities to renew the position for more than one year depending on funding/work availability and job performance.
The postdoctoral researcher will be part of a large and vibrant interdisciplinary research community at the University of Michigans School of Information. You will have opportunities to interact with researchers in groups such as the Social Media Research Lab the Michigan Interactive and Social Computing group and other colleagues and departments across the UM campus. You will also have opportunities to engage with centers such as the Center for Ethics Society and Computing the Center for Social Media Responsibility as well as units such as the Digital Studies Institute at UM.
Aside from direct oneonone mentorship from Dr. Andalibi the fellow will have the opportunity to receive mentorship from the designated UMSI postdoctoral mentor who is another faculty member.
Responsibilities may include:
- Designing studies
- Submitting IRB applications
- Data collection
- Data analysis
- Coauthoring publications as lead author or coauthor
- Preparing presentations and reports
- Contributing to grant proposal writing
- Mentoring graduate and undergraduate students
- Assisting with other related activities assigned by the PI
- PhD completed by start date
- PhD in Information Computer Science Science and Technology Studies Communication Social Science Law Policy or other related field
- Experience conducting and publishing research in academic venues
- Interest in studying pressing sociotechnical problems especially those related to this project
- Familiarity or expertise in at least one of the relevant topics to the broad project: AI incorporation in highstakes contexts emotion AI/emotion recognition/affective computing privacy AI ethics Fairness/Accountability/transparency in AI AI and law/policy and AI justice.
- Experience with qualitative research methods (e.g. interviews) participatory design design fiction focus groups and other qualitative/critical methods and/or experience with quantitative research methods such as surveys and experiments
- Experience managing projects from start to finish and working independently as well as collaboratively
Employment Type
Grant
