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Postdoctoral Fellow, Multimodal Machine Learning
Role Overview
The Postdoctoral Fellow will develop techniques to build a foundation model of human neurotypes by integrating cognitive task performance, conversational text, and biometric data. The core challenge is utilizing self-supervised representation learning to construct a continuous latent manifold of individual differences.
Responsibilities
● Develop tokenization techniques and self-supervised learning methods to integrate diverse data streams (cognitive results, text, creative choices, psychometrics).
● Train models utilizing novel multi-modal architectures to project qualitative and quantitative data into a unified latent space.
● Work closely with a psychometrics postdoc to distinguish genuine cognitive variation from measurement error, device effects, and language confounds.
● Design rigorous evaluations focusing on participant-level data separation, model robustness, missing modalities, and generalization.
● Scrutinize models for bias, unsupported sensitive inferences, and stability, ensuring responsible data usage in collaboration with governance bodies.
● Collaborate with software engineers on data preprocessing pipelines and model integration within the game's cloud infrastructure.
Qualifications
● PhD in machine learning, computer science, computational neuroscience, statistics, or a related discipline.
● Proficiency in Python and modern deep learning frameworks.
● Experience with High-performance Computing Infrastructure and GPU clusters.
● Strong research background in multimodal modeling, representation learning, and statistical evaluation of machine learning models.
● Preferred: Experience with self-supervised learning, natural language processing (NLP), cognitive modeling, and privacy-aware methods.
This position is covered by the AMURE collective agreement: https://www.mcgill.ca/hr/employee-relations/assocs-unions
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