<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello Everyone,</span></div><div><br></div><div><div style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', 'lucida sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', 'lucida sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1123_com_zimbra_url" style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;" data-mce-style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1131_com_zimbra_url" style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;" data-mce-style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;"><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;">Apologies for cross-posting.</span> <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1239_com_zimbra_url" style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;" data-mce-style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1242_com_zimbra_url" style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;" data-mce-style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2010_com_zimbra_url" style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;" data-mce-style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2013_com_zimbra_url" style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;" data-mce-style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" role="link" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2233_com_zimbra_url" style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;" data-mce-style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" role="link" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2236_com_zimbra_url" style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;" data-mce-style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;"><a href="http://articulab.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;" data-mce-href="http://articulab.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/" data-mce-style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">The Articulab</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; float: none; display: inline !important;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; float: none; display: inline !important;">at INRIA Paris, directed by Professor Justine Cassell, </span>has two new openings, for a Research Engineer and a Post Doctoral Researcher, in the field of Embodied Conversational Agents. <span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; text-align: justify;">The overall objectives of the project are as follows: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; text-align: justify;"></span></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "segoe ui", "lucida sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', 'lucida sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #fdfdfd; line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(1) Carry out detailed and innovative studies on human-human conversation, in adults and children </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "segoe ui", "lucida sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', 'lucida sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #fdfdfd; line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(2) Build computational models of the social and task aspects of these conversations</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "segoe ui", "lucida sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', 'lucida sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #fdfdfd; line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(3) Integrate the models into next-generation embodied conversational agents (also known as ECAs, or virtual humans, chatbots, or multimodal dialogue systems) that have the ability to engage and help their users using language and nonverbal behavior, with both social and task talk, where the social talk serves to improve task performance </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "segoe ui", "lucida sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', 'lucida sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #fdfdfd; line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(4) Evaluate the performance of these ECAs in order to better understand the applications of conversational agents to societal grand challenges, and to continuously improve how these systems communicate and engage with humans.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "segoe ui", "lucida sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', 'lucida sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #fdfdfd; line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "segoe ui", "lucida sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', 'lucida sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #fdfdfd; line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The selected candidates will join a vibrant group of PhD. students and research engineers. </span>More information regarding the positions and how to apply can be found at the job links given below:<br></span></p><div style="color: #000000; 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font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1124_com_zimbra_url" style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;" data-mce-style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1132_com_zimbra_url" style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;" data-mce-style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1240_com_zimbra_url" style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;" data-mce-style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1243_com_zimbra_url" style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;" data-mce-style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2011_com_zimbra_url" style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;" data-mce-style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2014_com_zimbra_url" style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;" data-mce-style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" role="link" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2234_com_zimbra_url" style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;" data-mce-style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" role="link" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2237_com_zimbra_url" style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;" data-mce-style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;"><a href="https://jobs.inria.fr/public/classic/fr/offres/2022-04457" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;" data-mce-href="https://jobs.inria.fr/public/classic/fr/offres/2022-04457" data-mce-style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">https://jobs.inria.fr/public/classic/fr/offres/2022-04457</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> (engineer: requires a minimum of a masters degree and relevant research experience)<br></span></div><div style="color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #fdfdfd; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #fdfdfd; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #fdfdfd; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; 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cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1244_com_zimbra_url" style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;" data-mce-style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2012_com_zimbra_url" style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;" data-mce-style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2015_com_zimbra_url" style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;" data-mce-style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" role="link" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2235_com_zimbra_url" style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;" data-mce-style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" role="link" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2238_com_zimbra_url" style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;" data-mce-style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;"><a href="https://jobs.inria.fr/public/classic/fr/offres/2022-04419" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;" data-mce-href="https://jobs.inria.fr/public/classic/fr/offres/2022-04419" data-mce-style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">https://jobs.inria.fr/public/classic/fr/offres/2022-04419</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> (postdoc: requires a minimum of a PhD and relevant research experience)<br></span></div><div style="color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #fdfdfd; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #fdfdfd; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div style="color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #fdfdfd; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #fdfdfd; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Warm Regards,</span></div><div style="color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #fdfdfd; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #fdfdfd; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Biswesh Mohapatra</span></div><div style="color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #fdfdfd; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #fdfdfd; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Articulab, INRIA</span></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div></div><div style="clear: both;" data-mce-style="clear: both;"><br></div></div></div></body></html>