USA; Post-Doc Opportunity in Neurobiology, Cognition, and Behavior
Research: Decoding/forecasting individual and group movement patterns
in complex (urban) landscape environments through multi-agent modeling
incorporating multi-modal sensory perception/integration, cognition,
and decision-making at the individual level.-
Organization: U.S. Army Engineer Research Development Center
(Environmental Lab), Cognitive Ecology Ecohydraulics Team. -
Salary: $55,000-65,000 / yr. -
Location: Portland, Oregon. -
Length: ~3 yrs (Spring 2009 – September 2011). -
Degree Required: Ph.D. or equivalent. -
Skills Required: one or more of the following at the individual (human
or animal)-
level: neurobiology, mathematical psychology, quantitative analysis of
behavior, cognitive ecology, signal processing, time-series
forecasting, intelligent software agents, game theory, multi-modal
sensory integration, cognitive decision making. -
Intellectual Interests: perception, cognition, decision-making,
individual/group/collective behavior, real-world social/asocial
environments, math/algorithms, modeling. -
Project Details: This basic research project is focused on developing
new theory and algorithms necessary to support development of a multi-
agent simulation tool for decoding/forecasting the movement patterns
of individuals and small groups in highly complex urban environments.
The Post-Doc will lead research and development of new theory and
algorithms integrating the latest knowledge in multi-modal sensory
perception/integration, cognition, learning, and adaptation into
intelligent software agents that will form an Eulerian-Lagrangian-
agent method (ELAM) model (see http://el.erdc.usace.army.mil/emrrp/nfs/elam.html
). The Post-Doc is expected to be adept at learning and integrating
knowledge from a wide variety of scientific disciplines.-
Contact: Interested candidates should email (w/subject header:
“Terrain ELAM Post-Docâ€) a 2-page version of your curriculum vitae to Andy.Goodwin [ à ] us.army.
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