Position Description - Postdoctoral Research Associate (ALOE) NLP
Description
The Department of Special Education in the Peabody College of Education and Human Development is seeking to hire a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work in the National Science Foundation AI Institute for Adult Learning and Online Education (ALOE). The research associate will work with faculty, staff, and students at both Vanderbilt University and Georgia State University in Atlanta. The research associate will help in all aspects of the project and assist in developing natural language processing techniques and tools, data analytics, general educational research, and project evaluation. The research associate will contribute to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) enhanced research design, attend weekly project meetings, conduct data collection, analyze data, write scientific papers, and help train and mentor undergraduate and graduate students. The research associate will work as part of a diverse, supportive, and collaborative team that includes nationally recognized universities, corporate partners, and technical colleges.
Preferred Hiring Qualifications
- Doctoral Degree in computer science, learning science, cognitive science, linguistics, or related field
- Experience with
- Natural language processing
- Large Language Models
- Learning analytics
- Educational data mining
- Learning engineering
- Proficiency in
- Python
- R
Compensation
Starting salary is between $60,000 and $70,000 depending on experience.
Term
Up to five years of funding
Application Information
Application Deadline: April 1st (Open until filled)
Applicants should submit:
- Cover letter (2 single-spaced pages maximum) that includes an overview of relevant experiences;
- CV (If the doctorate is not already in hand, please indicate the expected graduate date);
- Names and affiliations of three potential referees.
Those applicants long-listed by the search committee will be asked to supply reference letters.
Contact Information
Professor Scott Crossley (Email: scott.crossley@vanderbilt.edu)