Postdoc: AI-Driven Instructional Coaching

Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI); Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 81,000 - 99,000; Full time

Job summary

Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI invites a postdoctoral scholar to join an AI-enabled instructional coaching initiative that advances AI methods for observing and improving high-stakes human interactions in education and related fields.

The fellow will develop multimodal models, ensure privacy and data governance, and collaborate with Stanford HAI researchers while contributing to real-world impact in early childhood settings.

Qualifications

• PhD in a relevant field with strong research or applied ML experience.
• Expertise in multimodal learning, CV, or speech recognition and deployment experience.
• Experience with human-in-the-loop machine learning or related feedback signals.

Responsibilities

• Design methods to convert coach interactions with AI-generated suggestions into usable supervision for model adaptation.
• Lead user studies evaluating AI-supported instructional coaching in real-world settings.

Skills

PhD in ML / Deep Learning

Multimodal learning

Human-in-the-loop ML

Large-scale models

Education

PhD in Computer Science / ML

Tools

AWS

Job description

Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI invites a postdoctoral scholar to join an AI-enabled instructional coaching initiative that advances AI methods for observing and improving high-stakes human interactions in education and related fields.

The fellow will develop multimodal models, ensure privacy and data governance, and collaborate with Stanford HAI researchers while contributing to real-world impact in early childhood settings.