Opportunities: Ph.D. Co-Supervision; App-Developer, QA and Marketing Assistant

We have several classes of opportunities available at the moment. Please get in touch via email (see our contact page), with the email subject starting with “Opportunities:” followed by the title below. (Please do follow this format.)

Being Co-Supervised for your Ph.D.

Co-founder, Dr. Luc P. Beaudoin is open to co-supervising Ph.D. or master’s students in the following areas:

• Emotions as “Perturbance”: Interactions between bottom-up “motive generators”, attention, and executive processes.  Interested students should read the following.
  • Beaudoin, L. P., Hyniewska, S., & Hudlicka, E. (2017). Perturbance: Unifying Research on Emotion, Intrusive Mentation and Other Psychological Phenomena with AI. Paper presented at the Symposium on Computational Modelling of Emotion: Theory and Application at AISB–2017. Paper available from http://summit.sfu.ca/item/16776.
  • Beaudoin, L. P. Goal processing in autonomous agents. Ph.D. thesis, Birmingham UK, 1994. Available as CSRP–95–2 from The Cognitive Science Research Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, B15 2TT.  The thesis is was described in the January 2011 issue of the journal Artificial Intelligence.
  • Part 2 and Chapter 15 of Beaudoin, L. P. (2013) Cognitive Productivity: Using Knowledge to Become Profoundly Effective CogZest: BC.
  • Hawes, N. (2011). A survey of motivation frameworks for intelligent systems. Artificial Intelligence, 175(5-6), 1020–1036.
  • Some of the articles on the original CogAff project.
• Somnolent information processing, the cognitive shuffle and insomnia. Candidates should read the following.
  • Beaudoin, L. P. (2014, July). A design-based approach to sleep-onset and insomnia: super-somnolent mentation, the cognitive shuffle and serial diverse imagining. Paper presented at the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society workshop on “Computational Modeling of Cognition-Emotion Interactions: Relevance to Mechanisms of Affective Disorders and Therapeutic Action”, Québec, Canada.
  • Beaudoin, L. P. (2013).The possibility of super-somnolent mentation: A new information-processing approach to sleep-onset acceleration and insomnia exemplified by serial diverse imagining. Meta-effectiveness Research Project, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University. (40 p.)  Retrieved from http://summit.sfu.ca/item/12143 [This document is now at version 4, updated 2015–12–12. See the document itself for Errata and revision history.]
  • Beaudoin, L. P., Hyniewska, S., & Hudlicka, E. (2017). Perturbance: Unifying Research on Emotion, Intrusive Mentation and Other Psychological Phenomena with AI. Paper presented at the Symposium on Computational Modelling of Emotion: Theory and Application at AISB–2017. Paper available from http://summit.sfu.ca/item/16776.
• Cognitive Productivity. Compare the CogZest Projects page. Interested students should read the following:
  • Beaudoin, L. P. (2013) Cognitive Productivity: Using Knowledge to Become Profoundly Effective CogZest: BC.

macOS App Productivity App Developer

We are developing a new type of macOS app to help improve users’ cognitive productivity. Experience developing applications specifically for the macOS platform is required, as is very extensive familiarity with the macOS platform.  (Java apps and cross platform apps don’t count for the latter criterion, though of course the general experience helps). You need to be passionate about productivity.

Quality Assurance Specialist

For our new macOS app, we are looking for a part time QA specialist with some experience and education in Quality Assurance. As such, this position is suitable for students seeking to gain experience with a young, small but very ambitious Canadian software company whose co-founder, Luc P. Beaudoin, has experience as an at-founding employee of two of Canada’s most successful high tech companies (by valuation), and whose co-founder VP R&D, Brian Shi, has experience with established Fortune 100 companies. We’re small at the moment, but we use great development processes.

Software Marketing Assistant

We are looking for a part-time marketing assistant to help market our iOS apps, starting with mySleepButton. This position will report to our marketing manager.

E-book Marketing Assistant

CogZest is looking for an e-book marketing assistant to market its current and future books. While its current book, and two books in progress, are authored solely by CogZest founder, Luc P. Beaudoin, CogZest does expect to publish titles with and by other authors.

Grow with us…