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Four Post-doc Positions in Data Science, AI & Society at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Country/Region : USA - United States

Website : http://media.mit.edu

Description

The Scalable Cooperation group, directed by Iyad Rahwan at the MIT Media Lab has 4 openings for post-doctoral associates to work on topics related to Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Society.
For the first time in history, we have the ability to amass massive amounts of data about human behavior. Algorithms also mediate much of our social and economic interactions, combining big data with machine learning and AI techniques to serve us news, find us dates, recommend us products, and find us jobs. How can we design these social systems in a way that reflects our values, laws, social norms and ethics? In other words: how can we build tools for programming, debugging, and evaluating the emerging "algorithmic social contract" between humans?
Current areas of interest include psychological studies and computational models of machine ethics, bounds on computational privacy, computational models of fairness, reinforcement learning algorithms for human-machine cooperation, and algorithm-mediated collective intelligence and social media.
Our priority is to attract technically strong researchers, who are also interested in tackling major societal challenges. Candidates must have a proven record of publications in top-tier conferences and journals and need to have completed projects that demonstrate a proven ability to work with data and/or run experiments. We welcome applicants with strong background in fields including applied mathematics, machine learning, statistical physics, Artificial Intelligence, crowdsourcing, social network analysis, social psychology and behavioral game theory.
Candidates should submit an application by sending an email to ai_postdoc-AT-media.mit.edu including:
- a CV,
- a link to the candidates professional webpage,
- a 200 word research statement,
- two selected publications
Start date should be spring 2016, exact date negotiable. ?Candidates will be reviewed on a rolling basis until all 4 positions are filled.

Last modified: 2016-02-08 23:24:46