Posting Description

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, CONVO AI, PERSONAL ROBOTS, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, to join the Personal Robots research group.  Will bring experience building large language models (LLMs) and specialized conversational systems to support next-generation human experience over long-term encounters with personified social robots; conduct independent and collaborative research in the conversational AI field; publish conference and journal research papers; make public presentations; collaborate on designing and developing innovative conversational AI systems such as embodied conversational agents; collect data sets for training new models; design evaluation studies and collect and analyze data for research projects; participate in grant-writing and fundraising; mentor/advise graduate students and junior researchers; and stay up-to-date with the latest research and trends in the field. 

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