Human-AI Interaction Center

The HAII Center develops and uses AI technology for improving the long-term autonomy and interaction capabilities of future AI systems, embodied and disembodied, that are embedded in human societies such as virtual agents based on foundation models (e.g., personal cognitive assistants on smart devices, advisor systems, large generative AI language models like ChatGTP, etc.) or assistive robots (e.g., for elder care, search and rescue, surveillance, manufacturing, health monitoring).

The employed technologies encompass various AI approaches (e.g., generative AI for language understanding and common sense, deep neural networks for perception and reinforcement learning, symbolic reasoning for task planning, hybrid methods for natural language understanding, etc.) to control the behavior of fully autonomous virtual and robotic agents and their interactions with humans. Novel methods and technologies are evaluated in human-AI interaction experiments to determine their suitability and utility.  Most critically, the HAII Center has a focus on ethical AI and thus aims to establish the norm-confirming nature of all developed technologies.

Join the HAII Center

With the launch of Tufts Institute for Artificial Intelligence, the HAII Center will initially offer three postdoctoral positions with appointments of two years and the possibility to switch to a more advanced research staff position. Research staff and research faculty positions will be offered at a later time, as well more opportunities for senior candidates. Postdocs will contribute to the HAII Center's research mission by joining teams of faculty and staff researchers in developing proposals and performing research of high impact in all areas.

Suitable candidates must demonstrate technical excellence in any area of AI that deals with human interaction through high-impact peer-reviewed publications. Teaching experience is not necessary. Salaries are competitive and commensurate with experience, full benefits are included (health care, pension, commuter, etc.). Start dates can be negotiated. Applications will be reviewed as they arrive.