Open Postdoctoral position, faculty mentor Jason Yeatman

Postdoc position studying the mechanisms of reading and dyslexia through large-scale online studies
The Brain Development & Education Lab (PI: Jason Yeatman, PhD; https://www.brainandeducation.com ) has developed a new approach to the assessment of reading skills and learning disabilities: Rapid and automated assessments that run in a web-browser and produce scores that are equivalent to resource intensive, in-person standardized assessment. The Rapid Online Assessment of Reading (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-85907-x ) is being developed as an open-source platform bridging scientific research, educational and clinical practice. Read more about our collaborative research model on our website: https://roar.stanford.edu/
We have an opening for a postdoc that wants to work on:
Developing and validating new technology for more precise and informative assessment of reading skills in a school setting.
and/or
Leveraging the ROAR platform for large-scale online data collection to design new experiments testing the mechanisms underlying individual differences in reading development and better understanding developmental dyslexia.
This position will offer opportunities to:
Conduct research in partnership with school districts, clinics and community based organization
Craft technology around the emerging needs of a collaborative research team, school district and clinical partners
Design, implement and scale new research-based tools in schools and clinics
Implement robust data analysis pipelines, and maintain protocols around data management and model building
Conduct psychometric analysis
Continue to design and validate new assessment technologies in different settings and populations
Work environment:
The Brain Development & Education Lab is an Interdisciplinary and highly-collaborative team with projects spanning education, neuroscience, psychology, and software engineering. We seek new team members who enjoy team-science and would thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, collaborative environment. Our projects span multiple schools at Stanford University as well as external collaborations with other universities, hospitals, clinics, school districts and industry partners. This environment provides many professional growth opportunities spanning academia and beyond for those with interests in social impact.