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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Are you interested in investigating the effect of communication between agents in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) by leveraging tools from causality and causal representation
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Job offer: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">The Utrecht University offers a fully paid 4-year PhD position on investigating the causal effects of communication
in multi-agent RL. This project is a collaboration between the </span><span style="color:#212121"><a href="https://www.uu.nl/en/research/ai-data-science/intelligent-systems" target="_blank" title="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.uu.nl%2Fen%2Fresearch%2Fai-data-science%2Fintelligent-systems&data=05%7C02%7Cs.wang2%40uu.nl%7C22a94bacd4254a540d2c08dd817a2c58%7Cd72758a0a4464e0fa0aa4bf95a4a10e7%7C0%7C0%7C638809083907"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0078D7">Intelligent
Systems Lab</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121"> at Utrecht University and the </span><span style="color:#212121"><a href="https://amlab.science.uva.nl/" target="_blank" title="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Famlab.science.uva.nl%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cs.wang2%40uu.nl%7C22a94bacd4254a540d2c08dd817a2c58%7Cd72758a0a4464e0fa0aa4bf95a4a10e7%7C0%7C0%7C638809083907442719%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0078D7">Amsterdam
Machine Learning Lab</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121"> at University of Amsterdam and will be part of the </span><span style="color:#212121"><a href="https://www.hybrid-intelligence-centre.nl/" target="_blank" title="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hybrid-intelligence-centre.nl%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cs.wang2%40uu.nl%7C22a94bacd4254a540d2c08dd817a2c58%7Cd72758a0a4464e0fa0aa4bf95a4a10e7%7C0%7C0%7C638809083907457883%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0078D7">Hybrid
Intelligence Center.</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121"> The position falls under the Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities (solid pension scheme, substantial holiday leave, paid sick leave, maternity/paternity
leave) with a gross monthly salary between €2,901 and €3,707, 8% holiday pay and 8.3% year-end bonus.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Requirements: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Candidates are expected to have a <b>MSc degree</b> (or are near to completing one) in Computer Science, Artificial
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Context: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">The PhD student will be part of the Intelligent Systems group at Utrecht University, and will work under the supervision
of <a href="https://www.uu.nl/staff/SWang2" target="_blank" title="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.uu.nl%2Fstaff%2FSWang2&data=05%7C02%7Cs.wang2%40uu.nl%7C22a94bacd4254a540d2c08dd817a2c58%7Cd72758a0a4464e0fa0aa4bf95a4a10e7%7C0%7C0%7C638809083907488318%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0"><span style="color:#0078D7">Shihan
Wang </span></a>(daily supervisor), <a href="https://saramagliacane.github.io/" target="_blank" title="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsaramagliacane.github.io%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cs.wang2%40uu.nl%7C22a94bacd4254a540d2c08dd817a2c58%7Cd72758a0a4464e0fa0aa4bf95a4a10e7%7C0%7C0%7C638809083907503397%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB"><span style="color:#0078D7">Sara
Magliacane</span></a> (co-supervisor) and <a href="https://www.uu.nl/staff/MMDastani" target="_blank" title="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.uu.nl%2Fstaff%2FMMDastani&data=05%7C02%7Cs.wang2%40uu.nl%7C22a94bacd4254a540d2c08dd817a2c58%7Cd72758a0a4464e0fa0aa4bf95a4a10e7%7C0%7C0%7C638809083907518433%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFb"><span style="color:#0078D7">Mehdi
Dastani</span></a> (promotor). The PhD student will also participate in the <a href="https://www.hybrid-intelligence-centre.nl/" target="_blank" title="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hybrid-intelligence-centre.nl%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cs.wang2%40uu.nl%7C22a94bacd4254a540d2c08dd817a2c58%7Cd72758a0a4464e0fa0aa4bf95a4a10e7%7C0%7C0%7C638809083907534095%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3"><span style="color:#0078D7">Hybrid
Intelligence Center</span></a> project that connects 8 Dutch universities.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Deadline: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">May 20th 2025</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Details and application link:<a href="http://goog_761653380/" target="_blank" title="http://goog_761653380/"><span style="color:#0078D7"> </span></a></span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121"><a href="https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/phd-position-on-causal-effects-of-communication-in-marl" target="_blank" title="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.uu.nl%2Fen%2Forganisation%2Fworking-at-utrecht-university%2Fjobs%2Fphd-position-on-causal-effects-of-communication-in-marl&data=05%7C02%7Cs.wang2%40uu.nl%7C22a94bacd4254a540d2c08dd817a2"><span style="color:#0078D7">https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/phd-position-on-causal-effects-of-communication-in-marl</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Shihan Wang<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Assistant Professor in Intelligent Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Department of Information and Computing Sciences </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Utrecht University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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