Assistant Research Scientist (PREP0005000

Johns Hopkins, founded in 1876, is America's first research university and home to nine world-class academic divisions working together as one university.

Salary: $40,000 a year

Johns Hopkins University:
Whiting School of Engineering:
Office of Research and Translation

This position is part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Professional Research Experience Program (PREP). NIST recognizes that its research staff may want to collaborate with researchers at academic institutions on specific projects of mutual interest and, therefore, requires those institutions to be recipients of a PREP award. The PREP program involves staff from a wide range of backgrounds conducting scientific research across various fields.

Individuals in this position will perform technical work supporting the collaboration's scientific research.

Human-Centered AI Research and Evaluation (part-time position, 1/1/27-12/31/27).

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is developing human-centered approaches to AI evaluation through research on perceptions and use of AI systems. Human-centeredevaluations of AI systems depend on a variety of methods for capturing and measuring interactions between humans and AI systems. The candidate will assist in designing and executing human-AI interaction research. The candidate will actively participate in NIST measurement science and be involved in developing human-centered evaluations of AI technologies.

The candidate will work alongside world-class researchers at NIST.

U.S. Citizen is Preferred.

• Design/conduct human-subject studies (experimental design,surveys, and/or interviews).
• Conduct data analysis of human-subject experiments, surveysand/or interview data using inferential statistical methods and qualitative thematic and grounded theory analysis
• Perform literature surveys relevant to HCAI, human-AIinteraction, and AI evaluation
• Develop infrastructure and approaches for human-centered AIevaluation
• Write/prepare reports, research papers, and presentations of project information at internal and external meetings

• Background in any of the following or comparable fields:
  Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI),Industrial/Organizational (I/O) Psychology, Cognitive Psychology,Human Factors/Engineering Psychology, Psychometrics,Economics.
• Education level: graduate student or higher.
• Strong background in quantitative and/or qualitative research methodology.
• Experience with human subjects research on AI use and adoption.
• Programming skills and experience creating tools for human-centered AI evaluation.
• Knowledge/interest in human-computer interaction and human-AIinteraction.
• Knowledge/interest in machine learning and AI test an devaluation.
• Ability to work both in teams and independently.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.

• 1 position, part-time at 20 hours/week
• The details of the work arrangement are negotiable, but the position is envisioned to be telework, with the possibility of occasional in-person meetings on the NIST Gaithersburg campus.

The referenced salary range represents the minimum and maximum salaries for this position and is based on Johns Hopkins University’s good faith belief at the time of posting. Not all candidates will be eligible for the upper end of the salary range. The actual compensation offered to the selected candidate may varyand will ultimately depend on multiple factors, which may include the successful candidate's geographic location, skills, work experience, internal equity, market conditions, education/training and other factors, as reasonably determined by the University.

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