[iva] TWO POSTDOC POSITIONS

[Catherine PELACHAUD]

TWO POSTDOC POSITIONS AVAILABLE FOR 2017-2018

These postdoc positions focus on how an Embodied Conversational Agent 
(virtual human) can interact using social language and social nonverbal 
behaviors, as well as task language and nonverbal behaviors. The main 
topics of the postdocs are analyzing human-human interaction using hand 
annotation, online crowdsourcing, and machine learning algorithms, in 
order to understand how humans use language and nonverbal behavior in 
social ways, and (b) based on the results of the annotation implementing 
dialogue modules, using machine learning approaches, that understand the 
user’s behavior, and generate appropriate social responses in an 
Embodied Conversational Agent.

The ideal candidates will have complementary backgrounds to one another, 
in some combination of AI, natural language generation, multi-user 
architectures, dialogue systems, and machine learning. Experience 
implementing or working with architectures that handle planning and 
generation of nonverbal as well as verbal behaviors is preferred. 
Experience using state-of-the-art approaches to dialogue management, 
such as deep learning, is a definite plus. The ideal candidates should 
also be good team players who work well in an exciting and fast-paced 
multidisciplinary environment.

Skills  : Artificial Intelligence, Dialogue Systems, Embodied 
Conversational Agents, Deep/Machine Learning
Position  : post-doctoral (potentially 2 post-docs are available with 
the same description)
Duration  : 1 year
Host Organization  : ISIR, Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris 
where Justine Cassell will be visiting starting October 15 2017, and 
continuing through summer 2018.
Documents to send  : CV, cover letter, names and contact information of 
3 people willing to write a letter of recommendation
Send documents to  : Justine Cassell <justine at cs.cmu.edu>, Catherine 
Pelachaud <catherine.pelachaud at upmc.fr>, and Mohamed Chetouani 
<mohamed.chetouani at upmc.fr>

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