Postdoctoral Researcher

Indiana University Bloomington
Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences and Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, & Engineering

The Postdoctoral Researcher will join a new interdisciplinary project developing an AI-augmented decision science platform to understand and model high-stakes human judgments. This position will be jointly mentored by Dr. Tim Pleskac (cognitive and decision modeling) and Dr. David Crandall (computer vision and AI). The postdoc will lead the development, integration, and testing of computational models of decision making that incorporate dynamic scene features, pose tracking, and eye-tracking data collected from an immersive police shooting simulator.

The position is based at Indiana University Bloomington, with opportunities for collaboration with Michigan State University, and IU’s network in cognitive modeling, AI, and human–AI decision research.

This postdoctoral appointment is full-time and on-campus.

80% – Research

10% – Project Management

10% – Other Duties

The postdoc will be embedded in two leading research ecosystems:

A major center for judgment and decision-making research, evidence accumulation modeling, and computational cognitive science.

A top-tier program in computer vision, machine learning, and multimodal analytics.

The researcher will benefit from access to IU’s state-of-the-art computing resources, weekly interdisciplinary meetings, and strong mentorship from both PIs.

Interested individuals should apply at https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/31525.

A complete application includes:

Applications received by (1/9/2026) will receive full consideration, however the search will remain open until a suitable candidate is found.