[CogSci] NLP Postdoc position at NCSU

Noboru Matsuda nmazda at gmail.com
Tue Jan 14 12:18:34 PST 2020


NCSU IEC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

The Innovative Educational Computing laboratory in the Department of
Computer Science at North Carolina State University (NCSU) is looking for a
postdoctoral research fellow with a primary focus on the SimStudent project
(www.SimStudent.org) funded by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
entitled “Developing an Online Learning Environment for Learning Algebra by
Teaching a Synthetic Peer”.  See the project abstract at
https://ies.ed.gov/funding/grantsearch/details.asp?ID=2200

The primary purpose of the IES funded project is to study an effect of a
constructive dialogue between a tutor and a tutee in a context of learning
by teaching with a synthetic tutee (aka teachable agent). We investigate
the following central research questions: Is the effect of learning by
teaching enhanced when the synthetic tutee asks constructive questions
while a student (i.e., the tutor) is teaching how to solve problems? If so,
how and why? A technological goal of the current project is to extend an
existing synthetic peer, SimStudent, so that it poses questions, evaluates
student’s responses, and provides follow up questions based on the quality
and adequacy of the student’s response.

The postdoctoral research fellow will select a specific research topic
based on his/her research interest/background and pursue the independent
research under the supervision of Dr. Matsuda (the project PI).  Potential
research topics include (but not limited to) natural language dialogue,
question generation, text evaluation and classification, multimodal student
modeling, chatbot, and conversational animated agent.

A candidate should have a PhD degree in Computer Science or related fields
with a research specialization in advanced technologies for intelligent
tutoring systems, adaptive learning technologies, and/or the sciences of
learning. Established record of (or an evidence of potential to establish)
scholarly work in one or more fields in artificial intelligence, machine
learning, deep learning, computational model of leaning, natural language
processing, educational data mining, and/or learning analytics is
required.  An ideal candidate should also have strong background in
research methods and statistics.

The postdoctoral research fellow receives a competitive salary and health
insurance. The fellow would benefit from access to a stellar research
community at NCSU and the Research Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel
Hill), plus cutting-edge research facilities.

The fellow will be provided with a mentoring committee and invited to join
regular research group meetings within their field plus career development
workshops. Funding is provided in one-year terms renewable for up to two
years.

Interested candidate should email a current CV, a statement of research,
and three names of reference to Dr. Noboru Matsuda, Noboru.Matsuda at ncsu.edu

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Noboru Matsuda  (http://go.ncsu.edu/Matsuda)

  Director, Innovative Educational Computing Lab
  Associate Professor
  Department of Computer Science
  North Carolina State University
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