Theory-Driven Big Data for Predicting Human Behavior

The Army Research Laboratory Research Associateship Program (ARL-RAP) offers a research fellowship focused on advancing foundational knowledge and methods to develop models that enable assessment of critical factors driving multidimensional, real-time human behavior in real-world conditions. This opportunity combines theory-driven and data-driven approaches to overcome traditional limitations in predicting human behavior. The Associate will conduct research within three overlapping thrusts: advancing concepts for a general framework for theory-driven Big Data approaches to understand human behavior; collecting and executing analytic efforts within large datasets to develop and test new methodologies; and applying these methods to develop proof-of-concept demonstrations. The fellowship is designed to significantly increase the involvement of creative and highly trained scientists and engineers from academia and industry in scientific and technical areas of interest and relevance to the Army.