Young Investigator, Mosaic

Key Skills

Python Programming, Scala Programming, C++, Java Programming, Machine learning techniques, Data science techniques, SQL, Apache Hadoop, MapReduce, TensorFlow, PyTorch, R Programming

Job Description

Who You Are:

• Duration: 1-3 years
  Start date: Flexible
  Candidates: Are within one year of completing their PhD, or already have a PhD
• The Allen AI Young Investigator is a postdoctoral program offering unique benefits. The program will enable you to balance working collaboratively on an AI2 project while pursuing an independent research agenda.

Why Mosaic:

Interested in building machines with commonsense intelligence? With the Mosaic team, you will be at the forefront of research in Commonsense in AI. As a Young Investigator, you’ll have the opportunity to work on various aspects of commonsense in AI:

• How should we model commonsense reasoning capabilities?
• How should we represent commonsense in our AI models?
• How should we reason across modalities -- e.g. images and text?
• How should we collect and organize commonsense knowledge?
• How should we benchmark commonsense reasoning capabilities of AI?
• How should we reason through generation?
• How should we identify and mitigate biases in our datasets?
• How should we <your ideas here>?

Your Next Challenge:

• Dedicated AI2 mentor: Mentorship in research, grant writing, and more
• 50% collaborative work on an AI2 project
• 50% work on your own projects
• Commonsense Reasoning:
• Modeling: How should we build models that demonstrate commonsense reasoning?
• Multimodality: How should we build models that can reason from information obtained from different modalities -- e.g. images and text?
• Generation
• Commonsense Evaluation:
• Benchmarking: How should we evaluate commonsense reasoning of AI?
• Commonsense Knowledge Acquisition:
• Crowdsourcing
• Mining implicit commonsense from large text / image corpora

What You’ll Need:

Are within one year of completing their PhD, or already have a PhD

The Allen AI Young Investigator is a postdoctoral program offering unique benefits. The program will enable you to balance working collaboratively on an AI2 project while pursuing an independent research agenda.

Who We Are:

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence is a non-profit research institute in Seattle founded by Paul Allen and headed by Professor Oren Etzioni. The core mission of AI2 is to contribute to humanity through high-impact research in artificial intelligence.