Job Summary:
The Fowler College of Business at San Diego State University is seeking a full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow to advance its interdisciplinary AI research agenda. The role involves leading collaborative research projects, managing experimental design, and contributing to grant development while mentoring students in a high-performance computing environment focused on AI applications in business and society.
Responsibilities:
• Design and lead independent and collaborative research projects in multimodal AI, foundation models, social robotics, and applied AI.
• Develop and manage experiments using the Center’s high-performance computing systems with clear documentation and reproducible workflows.
• Contribute to model development integrating audio, vision, language, and sensor data for embodied and socially intelligent systems.
• Drive publication output from concept development through submission to leading venues.
• Co-lead development of federal, foundation, and industry grant proposals, including technical narratives, research design, and budgets.
• Support grant reporting, deliverables tracking, and coordination across interdisciplinary teams.
• Strengthen the Center’s long-term research capacity through sustained external funding efforts.
• Mentor undergraduate and graduate students in experiment design, technical implementation, and scientific writing.
• Facilitate collaboration across modeling, robotics, information systems, and applied research teams.
• Coordinate with engineering partners to ensure research outputs support real-world deployment.
• Publish in leading AI, technical, and business journals and conferences.
• Present research to academic, industry, and community audiences.
• Contribute to applied research partnerships in education, healthcare, and community settings.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Ph.D. in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Robotics, Cognitive Science, or a related field (completed or expected by start date)
• Experience with deep learning frameworks, especially PyTorch, and with high-performance computing environments
• Experience with multi-GPU training and distributed computing workflows
• Evidence of peer-reviewed publications or manuscripts under review
• Strong research writing skills and experience contributing to manuscripts or proposals
• Commitment to collaboration, student mentorship, and active engagement in daily JSB AI Center activities
Preferred:
• Experience with multimodal learning, vision-language models, audio or speech processing, or large language models
• Familiarity with fine-tuning methods such as LoRA, PEFT, and QLoRA, and with experiment tracking tools such as Weights and Biases or MLflow
• Background in AI for education, healthcare, mental health, or social behavior modeling
• Experience with self-supervised learning approaches, including contrastive learning or masked prediction methods
• A track record of contributing to successful grant proposals
• Experience mentoring or coordinating student research teams
Company:
For more than 60 years, the Fowler College of Business has established itself as a leader and innovator in business education. Founded in 1955, the company is headquartered in San Diego, California, US, , with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.