---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nanzi Zheng <nzheng3 at wisc.edu> Date: Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 5:30 PM Subject: Invitation to apply: UW-Madison's interdisciplinary PhD training program on machine learning, human cognition, and education To: "newhall at cs.swarthmore.edu" <newhall at cs.swarthmore.edu> Dear Dr. Newhall, I’m writing to ask if you might help us spread the word about a new interdisciplinary graduate training program at UW-Madison. Its goal is to provide graduate students from Engineering, Computer Science, Cognitive Science and Education with hands-on cross disciplinary training and experience working on problems at the intersection of machine learning, human cognition, and education, and to prepare trainees for both academic and non-academic career paths. What kinds of problems do we work on? Any problem, in either pure or applied research, in which people are learning from machines (educational software, intelligent tutoring, second-language learning, MOOCs, etc.), machines are learning from people (crowd sourcing, social network analysis, emotion recognition, natural language processing, etc), or both. The aim is to train scientists who can advance understanding within each core discipline by applying information and insights from the others, and who can bring the central ideas from each field to bear on real-world issues. How does the training program work? Trainees can enter through any of the core departments and complete all the usual requirements of their department. The training program enhances this traditional training through several additional mechanisms that are designed to promote cross-disciplinary learning without increasing time to degree. Here is a link to our website: https://lucid.wisc.edu More information on our facebook group: https://www.facebook.co m/lucidnetwork/ and our twitter feed @lucid_wi We much appreciate your help in circulating this opportunity to students who may be interested. Sincerely, Nanzi Zheng, on behalf of the LUCID training program -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://allspice.cs.swarthmore.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/private/job-opps/attachments/20161103/ed830cdf/attachment.html>