<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.2pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The Siegelmann BINDS lab
at UMass, Amherst is hiring multiple research assistance and postdoc positions
for a couple of projects: </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.2pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Project 1:  “Reconsolidation Temporal Neural Machine” focuses
on temporal associative memories and a-synchronic computation with neural
networks. (DARPA)</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.2pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Applying postdoc should
have knowledge in many of the items below, RA should have knowledge is some of
them:</span></p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height:16.2pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">1.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">    </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Meta-learning
algorithms (mandatory for postdoc)</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:16.2pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">2.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">    </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Chains/circuits
of oscillations (as in circadian system, engineering) </span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:16.2pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">3.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">    </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Consolidation
and reconsolidating associative memory models </span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:16.2pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">4.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">    </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Episodic
memory (mandatory for postdoc)</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:16.2pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">5.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">    </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Generative
replay</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:16.2pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">6.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">    </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Lifelong
Learning (mandatory for postdoc)</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:16.2pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">7.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">    </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Computational
complexity, finite automata, Turing machines, probabilistic/asynchronous computation </span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:16.2pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">8.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">    </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Neural
Turing machines </span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:16.2pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">9.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">    </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Extremely
well programming capabilities (both postdoc and RA)</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.2pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">To apply, please contact
the PI directly: Hava Siegelmann at</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.2pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:hava@cs.umass.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">hava@cs.umass.edu</span></a></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.2pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Please include: </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.2pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">CV, statement of capabilities
and experience, all published papers, 3 letters of recommendation, and anything
you believe can help you to land the position.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.2pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Project 2 will be
described in a follow-up email</span></p></div>