Postdoctoral Scholar Employee - The Computational Cognitive Science Laboratory -Psychology

The Computational Cognitive Science Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, led by Dr. Bill Thompson, seeks a Postdoctoral Scholar in computational models of social reasoning. The Postdoctoral Scholar will be expected to contribute to the development of new models of social reasoning and to conduct large-scale online behavioral experiments that examine the predictions of these models. The broader project investigates how groups of people discover solutions to complex problems. The successful candidate will work with the principal investigator as well as collaborators at the computational cognitive science lab to help achieve the laboratory's goals.

Responsibilities include:

* Developing software infrastructure to conduct online experiments

* Conducting large-scale online behavioral experiments with human participants

* Developing formal cognitive models of reasoning about and learning from social interactions

* Analyzing and visualizing experimental data

* Plan and write scientific publications

The position also includes scope to pursue the postdoctoral scholar's own research interests within this subject areas:

Project management: Working on research protocol design, grant writing, and reporting progress to funding organizations. Coordinating work of research assistants.

Mentoring: Receiving mentoring from Dr. Thompson and providing mentoring to graduate and undergraduate students (e.g., suggesting readings, leading a journal club, providing career advice).

PhD or equivalent international degree or enrolled in a PhD program or equivalent international degree program at the time of application

* Ph.D. or equivalent international degree

* No more than 3 years of post PhD research experience

* Ph.D. or equivalent international degree in psychology, computer science, or a related field

* Strong technical skills relevant to designing and conducting online behavioral experiments and performing modeling and data analysis.

* Proficiency in Python or another general purpose programming language and applications to statistical and computational modeling or machine learning

* Proficiency in javascript and related software infrastructure relevant to developing custom online behavioral experiments.

* Experience developing interactive online experiments with frameworks such as Dallinger or Empirica or analagous software infrastructure

* Experience using language models to induce programs from text data

* Experience with computational cognitive modeling

* Experience with neural networks or other machine learning methods

* Strong initiative and organizational and interpersonal skills

• 3-6 required (contact information only)

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