[agents] [jobs] Postdoctoral research positions in human-robot collaboration at University of Auckland

[Mohan Sridharan]

Two postdoctoral research positions are available in the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Auckland, New
Zealand. Researchers hired to fill these positions will work with a
multidisciplinary research team to address fundamental knowledge
representation, reasoning, and learning challenges in human-robot
collaboration. These positions will provide opportunities to design,
implement and evaluate novel algorithms and architectures for robots used
in diverse applications such as healthcare and agricultural automation.

Requirements:

-- Excellent doctoral dissertation in robotics, AI, or machine learning.
-- Doctoral degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics or a
related discipline.
-- Expertise in both probabilistic robotics and logic-based AI will be
considered a plus.
-- Excellent programming skills.
-- Prior expertise or passion for working with physical robots.

The University of Auckland is New Zealand's leading university. It has a
strong international focus and is the only New Zealand member of
Universitas 21 and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities, which are
international consortia of research-led universities. The positions will
initially be for a period of one year, with the potential to be extended
for two additional years.

If you are interested, please send a brief statement summarizing your
expertise and interests, along with a link to your CV and recent papers
(please do *not* send email attachments), to:

Dr. Mohan Sridharan
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Auckland, New Zealand
m.sridharan at auckland.ac.nz
http://homepages.engineering.auckland.ac.nz/~smohan/