Posting Number: S06095P

Department: Psychology

Salary Range: $61,008+, DOQ

Pay Basis: Monthly

Position Status: Regular full-time

Location: Richardson

Job Description:

Minimum Qualifications:

Preferred Education and Experience:

• Ph.D. in Psychology, Computational Social Science, Data Science, or a related field with a strong focus on the integration of computational methods in social and personality psychology.
• Relevant Publications: A minimum of two first-author publications in peer-reviewed journals, demonstrating a robust track record of research in computational psychology, NLP, machine learning applications in social science, or closely related areas.
• Computational Social Science Experience: Demonstrated experience in computational social science methodologies, including large-scale data analysis, social media research, or digital humanities.
• Advanced Statistical and Computational Skills: Expertise in applying advanced statistical modeling, NLP techniques, or machine learning models, particularly transformer-based models, sentiment analysis, or advanced text analysis methods.
• Programming and Technical Expertise: Advanced proficiency in Python, R, or a similar programming language, with experience using NLP and ML libraries (e.g., scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, spaCy, Hugging Face).
• Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Communication: Proven ability to work collaboratively across disciplines and effectively communicate complex computational and psychological concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Knowledge of, and hands-on experience with, large language models (e.g., GPT, BERT, RoBERTa, T5) for analyzing and modeling language data. Experience in fine-tuning, prompt engineering, and applying LLMs to social science questions, such as sentiment and topic analysis, language-based personality assessments, or cultural trend identification, is highly desirable.

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