<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Applications are invited for multiple postdoctoral fellowship positions working with Andrew McCallum at University of Massachusetts Amherst in various combinations of<div class=""><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="">deep learning and other areas of machine learning;</li><li class="">natural language processing;</li><li class="">knowledge representation and logical reasoning, with deep learning;</li><li class="">knowledge bases;</li><li class="">application areas are flexible; current work includes reasoning about the scientific literature, career paths, peer review.</li></ul><div class=""><br class="">The postdocs will be part of a large research group with many collaborative opportunities, both within the group as well as across the UMass Amherst's Center for Data Science and College of Information and Computer Sciences (which includes other faculty working in deep learning, NLP, machine learning, computer vision, databases, and information retrieval). UMass Amherst ranks 4th in AI among US universities by publications in top-tier venues. The UMass Amherst Center for Data Science recently announced at $15m gift from MassMutual to further expand faculty hiring. We also received a $5m gift for computing hardware, part of which was recently used to purchase over 400 GPU machines in support of deep learning. Surrounded by five colleges, Amherst is located in bucolic western New England within day-trip range of both Boston and New York.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Successful applicants will have extensive research experience, an excellent publication record in one or more of the research areas above, creativity, and strong communication, experimentation, and coding skills.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Examples of McCallum's previous postdocs and PhD students with academic placements:</div><div class=""><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="">Sebastian Riedel, University College London</li><li class="">Charles Sutton, University of Edinburgh</li><li class="">David Mimno, Cornell</li><li class="">Sameer Singh, UC Irvine</li><li class="">Jinho Choi, Emory</li><li class="">Benjamin Roth, Munich University</li><li class="">Chris Pal, École Polytechnique de Montréal</li></ul></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">If you are interested, or have questions, please send email to Andrew McCallum <<a href="mailto:mccallum@cs.umass.edu" class="">mccallum@cs.umass.edu</a>> and Pam Mandler <<a href="mailto:mandler@cs.umass.edu" class="">mandler@cs.umass.edu</a>>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The University of Massachusetts is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>