<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13.3333px;text-align:left;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;display:inline"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Multiple postdoctoral positions are immediately available for research that designs interventions and experiments to dynamically enhance and personalize real-world educational technologies, spanning K12, university courses, MOOCs, and learning by crowd workers.</span></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13.3333px;text-align:left;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The postdoc will set the agenda for research questions in collaboration with</span><a href="http://www.josephjaywilliams.com/research-overview" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Joseph Jay Williams</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, who is particularly interested in creating systems that combine rigorous randomized experiments with crowdsourcing and human computation, applications of statistical machine learning (e.g. bandits & reinforcement learning, NLP, recommender systems), and theories from cognitive, clinical and social psychology (e.g. self-explanation, analogical comparison, growth mindset, teaching cognitive behavior therapy).</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The postdoc will be based at University of Toronto's Computer Science department, working with Joseph Jay Williams, and with opportunities to collaborate with faculty in </span><a href="https://uoftcsed.github.io/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">U of T's Computer Science Education research group</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, the </span><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="http://www.cs.toronto.edu:40292/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Machine Learning group</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, and </span><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/home/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">HCI people at DGP</a>.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Examples of other faculty the postdoc can collaborate with are <a href="http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ashton/" style="color:rgb(85,26,139);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Ashton Anderson</a>, <a href="https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~duvenaud/" style="color:rgb(85,26,139);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">David Duvenaud</a>, <a href="http://www.tovigrossman.com/" style="color:rgb(85,26,139);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Tovi Grossman</a>, and <a href="http://fannychevalier.net/" style="color:rgb(85,26,139);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Fanny Chevalier</a>.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The appointment is for one year, with the possibility of renewal based on mutual interest.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The postdoc will play a key role in deciding which projects are pursued, but illustrative examples of potential research directions are:</span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">> Computer Science Education, research into enhancing teaching of introductory programming, motivating broader involvement, end-user programming.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">> Developing new systems for crowdsourcing the design of online problems and lessons, using multi-stage workflows that incorporate input from students, crowd workers, instructors, and learning scientists.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">> Creating and evaluating tools that enable collaboration between instructors and researchers, such as co-design of interventions and personalized lessons, and coordinated analysis of data about learning outcomes for students with different characteristics.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">> Investigating why and when prompting students to explain text/video lectures promotes learning, and understanding the effect of multi-modal interfaces that incorporate writing, speaking, and video creation. Teaching metacognitive skills and self-regulated learning of study behaviors, taking a user-centered approach to designing social-psychological interventions for enhancing motivation such as Growth Mindset and Wise Feedback.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">> Enhancing student wellness and mental health by testing interventions for encouraging people to exercise, monitor stress, apply principles from Cognitive Behavior Therapy to managing emotions. Investigating how to support online peer-to-peer interactions for having discussions around issues like managing anxiety or developing socio-emotional skills.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">> Interpretable and Interactive Machine Learning Systems for dynamically enhancing and personalizing instruction, especially from the perspective of combining human computation with techniques from multi-armed bandits/reinforcement learning, Bayesian optimization, applications of deep learning to natural language processing.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Application Instructions</span></p><p style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap">If you might be interested, provide your email and other information </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeHPhhLG7CHYMqs2aAzRRhhdmwJGBsQBbdwNE6MqL4hr2_tgA/viewform" style="color:rgb(85,26,139);text-decoration:none;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap" target="_blank">using this form</a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Then, to apply for the position, please email Joseph Jay Williams (<a href="mailto:williams@cs.toronto.edu" target="_blank">williams@cs.toronto.edu</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">)  with the subject line "Postdoc in Dynamically Enhancing & Personalizing Educational Technology – [Your name]", with the following as attachments:</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(1) Curriculum Vitae.  </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(2) Names and contact information of 3 references who are familiar with your research. We will follow up with your references to secure their recommendation letters on your behalf.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In your email application, please include a brief explanation of your research interests and how they fit with this position (in lieu of a formal cover letter). Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until the position is filled.</span></p></div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Joseph</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Joseph Jay Williams</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.josephjaywilliams.com/" rel="noreferrer" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">www.josephjaywilliams.com</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Assistant Professor</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">(July 2018 onwards), Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">(Until June 2018) Department of Information Systems & Analytics, School of</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Computing, National University of Singapore</span></div></div></div></div>

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