Dear colleagues
We're hiring at Vanderbilt! Join us in building Computational Mind & Behavior.
We use computation to make mind and behavior explainable—and mind and behavior to make new forms of computation possible.
At Vanderbilt University's College of Connected Computing, we're building Computational Mind & Behavior (CMB) around this two-way scientific ambition. We're recruiting exceptional scholars at Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor
levels to help shape our scientific directions, collaborations, and intellectual community.
Our vision is to discover the principles that generate intelligence and behavior—from brains and individuals to interacting agents, groups, cultures, and societies—and understand what happens as human and artificial intelligence
become increasingly intertwined.
We're particularly interested in four interconnected research directions:
🧠 Brain & Cognition / NeuroAI — How biological and artificial systems perceive, learn, reason, decide, and adapt.
💬 Language, Embodiment & Interaction — How minds communicate and connect through language, multimodal signals, embodied behavior, and human–AI interaction.
🤝 Strategic Social Behavior — How cooperation, competition, social inference, and strategic decision-making emerge among interacting agents.
🌐 Networks & Collective Intelligence — How behavior and intelligence emerge across social networks, cultures, populations, and human–AI collectives.
We welcome outstanding researchers from computing, AI, psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and related disciplines. We value deep disciplinary expertise, ambitious scientific questions, innovative computational approaches,
and the potential to forge new connections across fields.
Join us in building an intellectual community that connects fundamental discoveries about intelligence and behavior with new computational ideas, methods, and technologies.
Interested in joining us?
We'd be delighted to hear from prospective candidates and discuss our scientific vision, recruitment priorities, and opportunities within CMB.
Contact
Prof. Rachael E. Jack
Area Head, Computational Mind & Behavior
rachael.e.jack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
How to apply
Application links:
Assistant Professor: https://lnkd.in/eWVhNVtY
Associate & Full Professor: https://lnkd.in/edtYbiym
In Interfolio, select “Humans, Computing and Society” as your primary review area; identify a secondary review area, if applicable (e.g., Physical Intelligence). In your cover letter, explicitly state your interest in Computational
Mind & Behavior (CMB).
Explore our scientific vision: https://lnkd.in/eW3YVmev
Full consideration deadline: December 1, 2026.
Please share widely with colleagues and potential candidates!
Professor of Computational Social Cognition
Area Lead: Computational Mind & Behavior