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</p><p style="background:white;margin:0px;border:medium;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(54,54,54)">The Institute for Intelligent Systems in conjunction with the Psychology Department at the University of Memphis invites applications for a 2-year funded postdoctoral fellow position is available for a collaborative project led by Dr. Pavlik and Neil Zimmerman, funded by Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Alphabet, Inc. This University-Industry collaboration builds upon the multi-site LearnSphere educational data consortium (</span><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px"><a href="http://www.learnsphere.org/"><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(17,85,204)">www.learnsphere.org</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(54,54,54)">), a 5-year project sponsored by the Database Infrastructure Building Blocks program at NSF. The full-time research fellow will work in collaboration with Pavlik, Zimmerman, and McGraw-Hill Education on a project to optimize the adaptive scheduling used in McGraw-Hill practice applications designed to learn domain knowledge efficiently. The research will occur in 3 stages, a first stage of describing an adaptive computational model of the existing data, a second stage where the optimal conditions for adaptive learning are determined for this model following techniques described in Pavlik and Anderson (2008), and a third stage where we compare the new scheduling algorithm with the current McGraw-Hill scheduling system.</span></p><p style="background:white;margin:0px;padding:0in;border:medium;line-height:normal">

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</p><p style="background:white;margin:0px;border:medium;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(54,54,54)">The postdoc will spend approximately half-time in Memphis and half-time in Boston, which can be negotiated at the time of hiring. At Memphis the postdoc will be affiliated with the Institute for Intelligent Systems, an interdisciplinary center of research. In Boston the postdoc would be part of a dynamic team of learning science professionals making products for the educational market. All candidates should be highly motivated and focused.</span></p><p style="background:white;margin:0px;padding:0in;border:medium;line-height:normal">

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</p><p style="background:white;margin:0px;border:medium;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(54,54,54)">Desired qualifications include: </span></p><p style="background:white;margin:0px;padding:0in;border:medium;line-height:normal">

</p><p style="background:white;margin:0px 0px 0px 48px;border:medium;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(54,54,54)"><span style="margin:0px">●<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman";margin:0px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">      </span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(54,54,54)">PhD in Psychology, Computer Science, or related field</span></p><p style="background:white;margin:0px;padding:0in;border:medium;line-height:normal">

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</p><p style="background:white;margin:0px;border:medium;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(54,54,54)">Please complete an online application at </span><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px"><a href="https://workforum.memphis.edu/"><font color="#0563c1">https://workforum.memphis.edu/</font></a></span><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(54,54,54)">.<span style="margin:0px">  </span>Click on the faculty box to find the posting for Postdoctoral Research Fellowship.<span style="margin:0px">  </span>You will be required to upload a curriculum vitae, statement of research interests and experience, contact information for three letters of recommendation writers and copies of publications.<span style="margin:0px">  </span></span></p><p style="background:white;margin:0px;padding:0in;border:medium;line-height:normal">

</p><p style="background:white;margin:0px;border:medium;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(54,54,54)">For any questions regarding this position, please contact:<span style="margin:0px">  </span><b>Philip I Pavlik Jr., Associate Professor, </b>Principal Investig</span><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px">ator of Memphis LearnSphere Project, <span style="background:white;margin:0px">Cognitive Area Director</span>, </span></p><p style="background:white;margin:0px;padding:0in;border:medium;line-height:normal">

</p><p style="background:white;margin:0px;border:medium;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(54,54,54)">Institute for Intelligent Systems and Psychology Department.</span></p><p style="background:white;margin:0px;padding:0in;border:medium;line-height:normal">

</p><p style="background:white;margin:0px;border:medium;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px"><a><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(17,85,204)">ppavlik@memphis.edu</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(54,54,54)"></span></p><p style="background:white;margin:0px;padding:0in;border:medium;line-height:normal">

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