Applications are invited from highly motivated researchers for a postdoctoral position
immediately available in the Computational & Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, led by Prof.
Angela Yu, at University of California, San Diego. Initial appointment is for one year,
renewable for up to 2-3 years.
Dr. Yu’s lab applies modern machine learning and statistical tools to extract
computational principles that underlie cognitive processes that enable intelligent
behavior, in particular how humans and other intelligent agents perform inference,
learning, decision-making, and social interactions under conditions of uncertainty and
non-stationarity. Current interests include perception, face processing, active sensing,
judgement and decision making, and social cognition.
Applicants should be committed to applying rigorous mathematical tools to model cognitive
functions and/or their neural underpinnings. Experience or interest in carrying out human
behavioral experiments (either in person or on Amazon M-Turk) and/or collaborating with
other neuroimaging/neurophysiology laboratories is desirable.
Dr. Yu's lab is situated within the Cognitive Science department, and also affiliated
with the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, the Computer Science Department, the
Neurosciences Graduate Program, and the Institute of Neural Computation. There are ample
opportunities for collaborations with related groups across the UCSD main campus, the
medical school, and the Salk Institute.
Interested candidates should send a research statement, along with a CV including
publications, to Dr. Angela Yu (ajyu(a)ucsd.edu) with the subject “Postdoc Application”. Two
or more letters of references should be sent directly by the recommenders to ajyu(a)ucsd.edu
<mailto:ajyu@ucsd.edu>. More information about Dr. Yu’s group can be found at
https://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~ajyu <https://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~ajyu> .