[agents] Research Fellow in AI Planning

[Tim Miller]

Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence (Automated Planning)

The Department of Computing and Information Systems at the University of 
Melbourne is seeking a full-time Research Fellow to conduct leading-edge 
research and development in the area of artificial intelligence. The 
goal of the project is to advance the state-of-the-art for distributed 
multi-agent planning and reasoning in dynamic environments, with a 
specific focus on planning in unpredicted situations.

The project is in conjunction with our research partners at Defence 
Science and Technology Group (DST Group), and forms part of DST Group's 
Tyche Special Research Initiative (SRI) into trusted autonomy. The role 
will involve investigation of automated reasoning techniques for 
robustness and distributed adaptability under irreducible uncertainty in 
a range of applications, including land vehicles and autonomous team 
tactics discovery. The candidate should be prepared for occasional 
interstate travel, as the research is conducted in close collaboration 
with our research partners. The position is for a fixed term of 2 years.

The University of Melbourne is the highest-ranked university in 
Australia, and the Department itself is the leading computer science 
department. QS World University Rankings lists the department as No. 13 
in the world for Computer Science and Information Systems.

The city of Melbourne is a melting pot of cultures and has been named 
the world's most livability city for the fifth year in a row by the 
Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2015 Global Liveability Ranking.

Further details of the position are available at 
http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/887981/research-fellow-in-artificial-intelligence