[agents] PhD Vacancy in Agent-Based Intelligent Vehicle Simulation

[Koen Hindriks - EWI]

(Apologies for cross postings.)

The faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, is looking for an ambitious and highly motivated PhD candidate with an interest in research on  Agent-Based Intelligent Vehicle Simulation.

Job description
Vehicles that can drive themselves through traffic are becoming reality, as is shown by the Google Car that is based on the technology developed for the DARPA Urban Challenge. In this project intelligent cognitive agents are to be constructed that model the human driver, and potentially have the knowledge to control the vehicle with or without human interaction. Intelligent agents may be used to analyze the behavior of a range of different human driver types and their impact on traffic throughput and safety in simulations. Applications of such intelligent agents on board of vehicles are increasing the situation-awareness of drivers, and possibly taking over some of the driving tasks, using the data which the agents themselves collect, possibly integrated with the data from other vehicles and from an intelligent road infrastructure. An early simulation environment is already available that provides basic functionality for the agent to control the vehicle. Your job is the design of cognitive agents that are able to model and support human drivers, developing the simulation environment and analyzing the agents in this environment. You will be part of a larger team working on this project. Supervision is provided by Prof. dr. C.M. Jonker and dr. K.V. Hindriks.

Requirements
We are looking for excellent candidates that have received an MSc degree in Artificial Intelligence or Computing Science. Candidates that have experience with agent-based simulation in general or more specifically in the area of traffic simulation, and/or have experience with cognitive agents are especially invited to apply to this position.

Contact
For more information about this position, please contact Dr. K.V. Hindriks, phone: +31 (0)15-2782523, e-mail: k.v.hindriks at tudelft.nl<mailto:k.v.hindriks at tudelft.nl>.

Information and application
For general application information you are welcome to contact Mrs. J. Eddini, peno-ewi at tudelft.nl<mailto:peno-ewi at tudelft.nl>. To apply, please e-mail a detailed CV, including contact details of references, course lists with grades, and a letter of application in which you explain both your interest and the relevance of your skills and experience in the context of this research project. Please e-mail your application materials by 15 January 2012 to Mrs. J. Eddini, peno-ewi at tudelft.nl<mailto:peno-ewi at tudelft.nl>, or send by post to Mrs. J. Eddini, Mekelweg 4, 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands.

Also see: http://mmi.tudelft.nl for more information.

When applying for this position, make sure to mention vacancy number EWI2011-03.