Connectionists: Visiting postdoc position at AI-lab Brussels

[Bart de Boer]

Visiting postdoc in
Cognitively Plausible Emergent Behavior

In the context of seed funding for AI research in Flanders prof. Bart de 
Boer is looking for a short term (three-six months) visiting postdoc for 
the origins of language group of the AI-lab of the Vrije Universiteit 
Brussels.

Position offered
We offer a three-six months visiting postdoc position funded by a 
scholarship and with a bench fee. The work should consist of agent-based 
simulation, or of experiments to investigate emergence of behavior in a 
cognitively realistic setting. This means that in a computer simulation, 
the agents are not fully rational and that they show behavior similar to 
that of humans, and that interests of agents are not necessarily always 
aligned. Experiments should focus on factors that are typical for human 
settings, but that are generally idealized away, such as altruism, 
conflicts of interests and other "non-rational" behaviors. We are most 
interested in modeling emergence of speech, but we welcome applications 
proposing other areas, such as traffic or economic interactions.

What we are looking for
We are looking for an enthusiastic postdoc with a track record in 
artificial intelligence, cognitive science, linguistics or equivalent 
and who has either experience programming agent-based or cognitive 
models, or who has experience with the interaction between computer 
models and experiments. The starting date is negotiable, but preferably 
no later than September 2019.

How to apply
Send a recent CV, detailing your academic record and your programming 
experience as well as a letter of motivation to prof. Bart de Boer. Be 
sure to include a short (1-page) outline of your proposed project in the 
letter of motivation, as well as a short planning. At this stage we ask 
you not to send copies of your diplomas or letters of reference. These 
we will request directly if we decide to further pursue your 
application, If you have any questions please email prof. Bart de Boer.

Links
Context: https://ai.vub.ac.be/node/1687
Email Bart de Boer: bart at ai.vub.ac.be