Postdoctoral Associate

4 days ago

Singapore Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Full time

**Project Overview**:
The "Mens, Manus and Machina—How AI Empowers People, Institutions and Cities in Singapore (M3S)" five-year project was initiated in July 2023. It is driven by the goal of investigating the nature of work, redefining our relationship with technology, and exploring how institutions can adapt to foster livability, sustainability, innovation, and social welfare.

The problem of scheduling and allocating valuable resources appears in numerous contexts (e.g., transportation, health, public services, logistics) and scales. Many of these contexts share a set of common features. First, decisions regarding scheduling and resource allocation must be made in the face of uncertainty about the amount and timing of demand for these resources. This, in turn, means that plans must be updated dynamically as new information comes in. Moreover, a variety of stakeholders are typically involved and contend for the limited available resources, so that decision-makers must look for compromise solutions that “optimize”, in some way, the use of the resources, while balancing, to the extent possible, the requirements, priorities and social, economic, or demographic characteristics of these stakeholders. In short, these are complex problems involving multiple agents making multi-attribute decisions in a dynamic environment in the presence of uncertainty. Increasingly, AI- and ML-based tools are being brought by large organizations to bear on these problems and complement the expertise and experience of human managers and operators and the traditional decision-making support offered by more traditional (often large-scale) optimization models and algorithms. Optimizing human-machine interactions, training of humans and anticipating and mitigating potential societal, ethical, privacy and transparency issues related to these new tools are all critical aspects of the design of this next generation of scheduling and resource allocation systems.

The SMART-T7 team is led by distinguished scholars, i.e., Professors Hamsa Balakrishnan, Jinhua Zhao, Alexandre Jacquillat, Amedeo Odoni, and Jason Jackson from MIT, and Professor Hai Wang from Singapore Management University.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Collaborate with the project team and other researchers to design, implement, and evaluate research projects.
- Publish research results in top-tier journals and conferences and disseminate research findings through presentations and other means.
- Mentor graduate and undergraduate researchers and interns involved in related projects.
- Assist with grant writing, project management, and other administrative research duties.
- Perform other duties as needed.

**Requirements**:

- Ph.D. in Operations Research, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Industrial Engineering, Network Science, or a related field by the start of the appointment.
- Expertise 1: Experience with general methods in decision-making under uncertainty, including stochastic and robust optimization, integer and combinatorial optimization, dynamic programming, and large-scale optimization; and/or
- Expertise 2: Experience with general methods in machine learning, including reinforcement learning, deep learning, generative AI, multimodal AI, statistical modeling, and network analysis.
- Experience in the integration of machine learning and decision-making.
- Strong publication record in top-tier conferences and journals.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

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