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JOB DESCRIPTION AND POSITION REQUIREMENTS

The College/Unit of IST is seeking applicants for part-time job of Part time Research Associate.

Job duties to include:

• Dr. Jonathan Dodge in the College of IST seeks a grad student to assist with part-time research support on project MIXTAPE. The job will involve a mixture of working on reinforcement learning (RL) agents and explain ability for those agents as well as designing and conducting user studies.
   

Requirements, qualifications, and/or competencies:

• Skills with RL, explainability, and user studies are requirements. A pre-existing relationship with Dr. Dodge’s lab (PLAINTEXT) is preferable. 

Schedule:

• This is a part-time hourly position expected to work up to 20 hours per week

Compensation:

$31 hourly

 

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