Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Charlotte AI Institute
UNC Charlotte
Temporary
Closes on Monday, September 7, 2026
Job Description
The Charlotte AI Institute for research (CLTAI²) at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position focused on the intersection of AI, leadership, and behavioral analytics. The successful candidate will contribute to interdisciplinary research initiatives spanning AI-enabled leadership systems, multimodal behavioral analytics, human-centered AI, and translational AI applications. This position will operate collaboratively across the Charlotte AI Institute and the Center for Leadership Science (CLS).
● Conduct interdisciplinary research related to AI-enabled leadership assessment, behavioral analytics, organizational communication, and human-AI interaction.● Contribute to the design, development, and validation of AI-enabled leadership analytics systems, including the Leadership Performance Dashboard and related multimodal behavioral AI tools.● Conduct interdisciplinary research on video analytics, computer vision, large language models, and multimodal language models for applications.● Conduct research involving multimodal AI methods such as:○ Natural language processing○ Interaction and temporal analytics○ Emotion and sentiment analysis○ Behavioral signal processing○ Explainable AI approaches○ Human-centered AI evaluation● Assist with development of datasets, benchmarking frameworks, validation studies, and reproducible AI research workflows supporting applied AI systems and human behavioral analysis.● Participate in collaborative research initiatives addressing emerging challenges involving AI transparency, vulnerabilities, generative AI, and secure AI-enabled systems.● Identifying grant opportunities from NSF and DoD, industry, and foundation sponsors● Leading and supporting interdisciplinary proposal development and grant writing● Coordinating collaborative research teams● Assisting with strategic partnership and research infrastructure development● Contribute to industry-engaged and translational AI initiatives involving leadership development, executive coaching technologies, behavioral AI, and organizational analytics.● Support data collection efforts, including drafting collection protocols and IRB.● Confer with the supervisor on overall research direction and strategy, but will exercise a considerable amount of independent judgment and original thinking in carrying out research that contributes to original knowledge and advances the University’s reputation in research.● Publish research results, in collaboration with their supervisor, in recognized journals and conferences as well as work with the supervisor on proposals for funding. The employee will share student mentoring responsibility with the supervisor and will participate in departmental seminars and other professional activities as assigned. UNC Charlotte