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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>An exciting Postdoctoral Researcher position in ** Computational Human-Robot Interaction** is available at University of Cambridge, UK. The Postdoctoral Researcher will be working on a novel multi-disciplinary project related to creating adaptive robot social intelligence for wellbeing, with a starting date of 1 September 2021 (or the earliest thereof). The projects aims to (1) equip (humanoid) robots with novel socio-emotional intelligence and adaptation capabilities grounded in the state of the art in affective computing, social signal processing, computer vision and machine learning fields; and (2) deploy these robots as socio-emotionally smart embodied devices to enable their users maintain and improve their health and wellbeing.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The aspect of the project the applicant will mainly work on relates to computational and data-driven human-robot interaction. This will involve (i) robot behaviour learning and generation from multimodal and multiparty data, and (ii) designing and undertaking HRI studies with the learned behaviour models, with applications to health and wellbeing. These will be achieved by working with the project team that is part of the Affective Intelligence and Robotics (AFAR) Group (<a href="https://twitter.com/AFAR_Cambridge">https://twitter.com/AFAR_Cambridge</a>) at the University of Cambridge and collaborating with the other project partners.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>IMPORTANT DATES & LINKS ========= ========= =========<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>Position starting date: 1 September 2021 </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#444444;background:white'>(or the earliest thereof)</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;background:white'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>Project duration: 2 years </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;background:white'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>Location: Department of Computer Science & Technology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK - <a href="https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/">https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/</a></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;background:white'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;background:white'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>How to apply: <a href="https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/30635/">https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/30635/</a></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;background:white'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>Closing date: 15 August 2021 </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;background:white'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>========= ========= ========= ========= ========= ====<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#767171'>---<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#767171'>Dr Hatice Gunes<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#767171'>Assoc Professor/Reader in Affective Intelligence & Robotics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#767171'>Department of Computer Science & Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#767171'>University of Cambridge<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#767171'>Phone: +44 12237-63684<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#767171'>Email: </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><a href="mailto:hatice.gunes@cl.cam.ac.uk"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#767171'>hatice.gunes@cl.cam.ac.uk</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#767171'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#767171'>Web: </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><a href="https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~hg410/"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#767171'>https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~hg410/</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#767171'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>
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