<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b>Postdoctoral fellow position (reinforcement learning)</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">As part of a just funded NSF project, we are looking for a postdoctoral fellow to do research on extending reinforcement learning ideas into an architecture for building long-lived agents. A number of research issues including learning good representations and models, using internal rewards, control of internal as well as external actions, abstraction of actions into skills, and the use of episodic and semantic memories within reinforcement learning are in the scope of the project. A mix of empirical and theoretical work is called for in the project which funds Satinder Singh, John Laird, Richard Lewis and Thad Polk, all at the University of Michigan. <br><br>The ideal candidate would have done a thesis on a reinforcement learning topic. If you are interested in applying for such a position, please send your details to <a href="mailto:baveja@umich.edu">baveja@umich.edu</a> (please don't spam the whole mailing list). The start date can be as early as Fall 2009.</div></div></div></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------</div><div>Richard L. Lewis<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span></span><a href="mailto:rickl@umich.edu">rickl@umich.edu</a></div><div>Professor <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span></span><a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rickl/">http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rickl/</a></div><div>Department of Psychology<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span></span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span></span>Voice: (734) 763-1466</div><div>University of Michigan <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span></span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span></span>Fax: (734) 763-7480</div><div>530 Church Street <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span></span>Office: East Hall 4428F</div><div>Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1043</div><div><br><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span> </div><br></body></html>