<div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;border-radius:0px">The newly established Max <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/falklieder/rel">Planck Research Group for Rationality Enhancement</a>, headed by <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/falklieder/home">Dr. Falk Lieder</a> at the <a href="https://www.is.mpg.de/">Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems</a> in Tübingen, Germany, is looking Postdocs and Ph.D. students for three projects that integrate approaches from machine learning, computational cognitive science, and artificial intelligence to develop intelligent systems that augment people's cognitive capabilities.</p><p style="text-align:start;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;border-radius:0px"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><font color="#555555"><b>1. Postdoc and/or Ph.D. Student Position in Metacognitive Learning / Program Induction</b>:</font></span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><font color="#555555"> <br>The goals of the first project are to </font></span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify">1) reverse-engineer the learning algorithms through which people discover and continuously refine their highly efficient algorithms for planning, reasoning, and decision-making, and 2) develop automatic methods for discovering optimal heuristics and general principles of good decision-making. For more information, please see the official job ad at </span><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://is.tuebingen.mpg.de/jobs/postdoc-or-phd-student-in-metacognitive-learning-program-induction-m-f">https://is.tuebingen.mpg.de/jobs/postdoc-or-phd-student-in-metacognitive-learning-program-induction-m-f</a>.</font></p><p style="text-align:start;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;border-radius:0px"><span style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><font color="#555555"><b>2. Ph.D. Student and/or Postdoc Position in Developing Cognitive Tutors</b>:</font></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:justify"><font><font color="#555555" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> <br></font></font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">The primary goal of this project is to develop intelligent systems that teach people optimal cognitive strategies for decision-making, planning, reasoning, and problem-solving. Our approach combines computational models of cognitive skill acquisition with state-of-the-art methods from artificial intelligence and machine learning. </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">For more information, please see the official job ad at </span><font color="#1155cc" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><u><a href="https://is.tuebingen.mpg.de/jobs/phd-student-or-postdoc-in-developing-cognitive-tutors-m-f">https://is.tuebingen.mpg.de/jobs/phd-student-or-postdoc-in-developing-cognitive-tutors-m-f</a></u></font></p><div style="text-align:start"><font color="#1155cc" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><u><br></u></font></div><div style="text-align:start"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;border-radius:0px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:justify"><font color="#555555"><b>3. Ph.D. Student and/or Postdoc Position in Developing Cognitive Prostheses</b>:</font></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:justify"><font><font color="#555555" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> <br><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:black;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;border-radius:0px">At the beginning of this project, you will be working with a web-developer to create a to-do list gamification app for helping people overcome procrastination and achieve their goals. You will evaluate alternative versions of this cognitive prosthesis in field experiments. Later on in this project, you will develop additional cognitive prostheses for goal setting and/or decision support</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:black;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;border-radius:0px">. For more information, please see the official job ad at </span></font></font></span><font color="#000000"><a href="https://is.tuebingen.mpg.de/jobs/phd-student-or-postdoc-in-cognitive-prostheses-m-f">https://is.tuebingen.mpg.de/jobs/phd-student-or-postdoc-in-cognitive-prostheses-m-f</a>.</font><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:justify"><font><font color="#555555" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br></font></font></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;border-radius:0px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;border-radius:0px"><font color="#000000"></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0cm 10px;color:rgb(85,85,85);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:justify;border-radius:0px"><font color="#000000"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);border-radius:0px"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;border-radius:0px">The Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems</strong></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0cm 10px;color:rgb(85,85,85);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;border-radius:0px"><font color="#000000"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);border-radius:0px">The Max Planck Research Group for Rationality Enhancement is part of the MPI for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen, Germany. The institute is a world-class center for foundational research in machine learning, computer vision, robotics, and material science. We are part of the <a href="https://is.mpg.de/en/news/cyber-valley-attracts-research-group-leaders-from-around-the-world" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:0px 0px;color:purple;text-decoration:underline;border-radius:0px;outline:0px">Cyber Valley Initiative</a> that is bringing new research groups, professorships, and industry partners to Tübingen and Stuttgart. The majority of the institute’s scientific employees come from outside of Germany. You will work among gifted students and experienced scientists from all over the world; and have access to excellent infrastructure, including several regular series of tutorials, lectures, journal clubs and invited talks by international guests, as well as a large computer cluster, and dedicated full-time specialists. The working language at the institute is English.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0cm 10px;color:rgb(85,85,85);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;border-radius:0px"><font color="#000000"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);border-radius:0px"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;border-radius:0px">Tübingen</strong></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0cm 10px;color:rgb(85,85,85);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;border-radius:0px"><font color="#000000"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);border-radius:0px"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BCbingen" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:0px 0px;color:purple;text-decoration:underline;border-radius:0px;outline:0px">Tübingen</a> is a scenic medieval university town, cradled in what is simultaneously one of Germany’s most beautiful landscapes one of Europe’s most economically successful areas. Stuttgart airport is an hour by bus, Frankfurt airport can be reached in two hours by train. Most locals speak English and knowledge of German is not required to live here.</span></font></p><p></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;border-radius:0px"><br></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;border-radius:0px">If you have any questions or suggestions, then please don't hesitate to email Dr. Falk Lieder (<a href="mailto:falk.lieder@gmail.com">falk.lieder@gmail.com</a>). Please help spread the word by forwarding this email to individuals or groups who might be interested.</p><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></font></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">----</span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Falk Lieder, Ph.D.</span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/falklieder/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/falklieder/</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>