[jobs] Open Robotics & Machine Learning PhD and Post-Doc Positions

[Jan Peters]

Hi there,

interested in doing a PhD at IAS at TU Darmstadt? Read below and file
your application at

https://www.ias.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/Jobs/Application

Only applications through this website can be considered, please do not
email me applications.

Best wishes,
-Jan



!Jobs and Open Positions
As a dynamic research group, we are interested in outstanding Ph.D.
students and postdoctoral scholars in robotics, machine learning, and
biomimetic motor control. Only in rare exceptions, we have openings for
external students for internships or master's theses unless they are
already enrolled with TU Darmstadt. For exceptional students from the
USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, we offer internships through the
IREP program, but please apply directly through the IREP program.
Scholarship applications (including DAAD WISE, CSC or other) and
internship will only be considered if send through this website.

See
https://www.ias.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/Jobs/InformationForApplicants
for more information for applicants.

!!Open Robotics & Machine Learning Positions

The Intelligent Autonomous Systems Lab (IAS) at the Technical University
of Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt) is seeking for highly qualified
*POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS* and *PH.D. STUDENTS* interested in one or
more of the research topics:

# Machine Learning for Prosthetic Legs and Physical Assistance of
Neuromuscular Control
# Machine Learning for Robotics, especially Reinforcement Learning,
Imitation, and Model Learning.
# Robot Grasping based on Tactile Sensing and Vision
# Imitation Learning using Body Metrics

Currently, we have openings in several new projects. In particular,
mention what projects you are interested in, see
https://www.ias.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/Research/Projects.
Particularly, we are still searching for applicants in

* The Adaptive Mind
* Third Wave of AI

See below for more details!

Outstanding students and researchers from the areas of AI+Robotics and
machine learning as well as related areas including control engineering
or computer vision are welcome to apply. The candidates are expected
to conduct independent research and at the same time contribute to
ongoing projects in the areas listed above. Successful candidates can
furthermore be given the opportunity to work with undergraduate, M.Sc.
and Ph.D. students.

IAS members have been extraordinarily successful in terms of
publications
(both at top robotics and top machine learning venues), awards (best
European robotics PhD thesis awards, best computer science thesis,
AI newcomer of the year, ...), academic jobs (14 professors at top
schools including KIT, UCL and CMU; postdocs at UC Berkeley, MIT, CMU,
... )
and industry jobs (Amazon, Facebook, Google).

!!Position Requirements

Interns need to have had prior research experience and relevant
course work to robotics and/or machine learning, as well as a
really good reason why they want to intern with us as we only
take very few applicants.

Ph.D. position applicants need to have a Master's degree in a
relevant field (e.g., Robotics, Computer Science, Engineering including
e.g. Electrical and Mechanical Engineering,
Statistics & Optimization, Math and Physics) and have exhibited
their ability to perform research in either robotics or machine
learning. First publications or an uploaded excellent M.Sc. thesis
are beneficial for the candidates chances.

A successful Post-doc applicant should have a strong robotics and/or
machine learning background with a track record of top-tier research
publications, including relevant conferences (e.g., RSS, ICRA, IROS or
ICML, IJCAI, AAAI, NIPS, AISTATS) and journals (e.g., AURO, TRo,
IJRR or JMLR, MLJ, Neural Computation). A Ph.D. in Computer Science,
Computational, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering (or another field
clearly related
to robotics and/or machine learning) as well as strong organizational
and coordination skills are a must.

Expertise in working with real robot systems is a big plus for all
applicants.

!!How to Apply?

All complete applications submitted through our online application
system found at our Application Website

https://www.ias.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/Jobs/Application

will be considered. There is no fixed deadline: the positions will be
filled as soon as possible. Ph.D. applicants should provide at least a
research statement, a PDF with their CV, degrees, and grade-sheets,
and two references who are willing to write a recommendation letter.
PostDoc applicants require three references and, in addition, should
provide their top three publications. Please ensure to include a link
to your research web-site as well as your date of availability.

*Please make clear in your research statement on your research interest
and experience, how these relate to IAS and how they relate to the
topics listed above. Importantly, do not waste space on "Dear Dr. ",
your childhood experiences or why your university is such a nice school.
We are interested in *you* and how well you fit to us.*

Applicants are encouraged to contact [[Member/Jan Peters]] or any IAS
post-docs during the upcoming conferences. Candidates giving a
presentation at one of these conferences are invited to send a
corresponding note to us.

!!More information needed?
See here:
https://www.ias.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/Jobs/InformationForApplicants


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!Third Wave of AI
Interested in a PhD-position in the research area Third Wave of AI? Then
join us and work with us in our new research project 3AI.

The research of 3AI focuses on AI systems that acquire human-like
communication and thinking abilities, recognize and classify new
situations, and adapt to them autonomously. Through 3AI, the systemic
and algorithmic foundations for a so-called system AI are to be
developed, so that interactions of the most diverse AI building blocks
are mathematically and algorithmically correctly captured, understood
and used, and new methods of system design, e.g. software engineering or
data management, are explored.

Possible research questions for the PhD-positions - highly relevant to
robotics - could be:

* How to bring together separated AI regimes such as low-level
perception & high-level reasoning?
* How to represent and interface the what & how of AI computations?
* How to deal with uncertainty & incompleteness, when modelling and
within the
models?
* How to achieve a large & diverse coverage of (novel) AI algorithms?
* How to rapidly/automatically combine, deploy, & maintain existing AI
algorithms and
representation?
* How to rethink software & systems design for complex AI systems?

3AI combines top AI research at TU Darmstadt with research at Johann
Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, University Hospital Frankfurt and
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. The cutting-edge research project
3AI is tightly incorporated into the Hessian Center for Artificial
Intelligence - hessian.AI. Over the next four years, 20 new AI
professorships will be established within hessian.AI, building on the
expertise of the 22 Hessian scientists that are founding members of the
center.

Through its members TU Darmstadt and Goethe University Frankfurt,
Hessian.AI is part of the Rhine-Main Universities (RMU), which is one of
the strongest strategic university alliances in Germany with almost half
a billion euros in DFG funding. Embedded in one of Europe's leading IT
and science regions, the Rhine-Main metropolitan area with close
proximity to the Frankfurt Airport, the region offers not only the best
working conditions, but also a high quality of life.

Interested? Please apply both at https://hai1.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/ and
through our Website!

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!The Adaptive Mind

The Universities of Giessen, Marburg, and Darmstadt together with the
University of Frankfurt and the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
(FIAS) aim strategically to further strengthen research in the field of
Mind, Brain, and Behavior by establishing a cluster project The Adaptive
Mind. Supported by the Hessen State Ministry for Higher Education,
Research and the Arts, applications for

11 Doctoral researcher positions (65%, 75% or 100%) and
12 PostDoc positions (100%) (m/f/d)

are invited. The positions are available immediately and are fixed
maximum up to 31.03.2025. If the requirements are met, the position will
be paid according to pay group 13. The place of employment will be
Giessen, Marburg, Darmstadt or Frankfurt.

In The Adaptive Mind, we combine rigorous behavioral and
neurophysiological research methods and theories from experimental
psychology, with the unique patient-oriented insights of psychiatry and
clinical psychology and the power of quantitative analysis and
computational modeling by artificial intelligence. Our goal is to
observe empirically, describe quantitatively, and model computationally
how the human mind continually adapts in an ever-changing and often
unpredictable world. Further details about the cluster project, the Key
Areas and conditions of application can be found elsewhere on this web
site.

For the doctoral researcher positions, we invite the application of
highly qualified applicants with a Masters degree from life-,
biomedical- and natural sciences including psychology, or computer
science. The successful PostDoc applicants will have a doctorate in any
of the following areas: experimental psychology, cognitive sciences,
neuroscience, artificial intelligence, robotics, sensorimotor control,
computational psychiatry, or other allied fields. Experience in motion
tracking, virtual reality, machine learning or other computational
approaches are beneficial.

The successful applicants will join a thriving research community with
strong regional, national and international connections as documented
among others by numerous high-profile individual (e. g., 8 ERC grants)
and group grants (e.g., the Collaborative Research Center (SFB/TRR 135)
on Cardinal Mechanisms of Perception, the IRTG 1901 The Brain in Action,
the Research Unit RU 2107 Neurobiology of Psychiatric Disorders, the
Centre for Cognitive Science and the Hessian Center for Artificial
Intelligence - hessian.AI, as well as other collaborative research
endeavors).

All participating institutions are committed to increasing the
proportion of women in science, and female candidates are strongly
encouraged to apply for the positions. All participating institutions
are family-friendly institutions, applicants with children are warmly
welcomed. Applicants with severe disabilities will be given preference
over other candidates with equal suitability for the position.
Application and interview costs cannot be refunded.

*In addition to filing an application through our website, please send
your application to Dr. Filipp Schmidt!* Include CV, Research statement,
2 Reference letters, Scans of degree certificates) mentioning reference
number 293/06 as a single PDF file to Dr. Filipp Schmidt, Research
Coordinator Mechanisms of Perception and Adaption
(filipp....@psychol.uni-giessen.de). Please specify, for which of
the research areas specified under Note (3) below you would like to
apply. The reference letters can also be sent to Filipp Schmidt directly
by the authors, if preferred.

Notes:
(1) Application procedure: All applications are received centrally by
the research coordinator of the priority research area "Perception and
Adaptation", Dr. Filipp Schmidt at Justus-Liebig University Giessen. The
application documents will be made available to the selection committee,
consisting of the cluster PIs and of representatives of the partner
universities, following the highest standards for data protection.
Please specify in your application to which of the research fields
specified under point (3) you are applying.

(2) Employment: Employment is at the partner university the position is
assigned to, following the salary scales applicable locally. These are
specified in the German version of this note further below. Part-time
employment is generally possible, if desired. Staff representatives of
all partner universities will be invited to the job interviews.

(3) Research areas: All research in our Cluster tries to combine
Experimental Psychology and Movement Sciences, Artificial Intelligence
and Computational Cognitive Science, as well as Clinical Psychology and
Psychiatry. The focus for each position will be as follows:. At
Justus-Liebig-Universitaet Giessen (JLU) Experimental Psychology and
Movement Sciences (4 PostDoc and 4 Doctoral researcher positions 75%).
At Philipps-Universitaet Marburg (UMR) Experimental Psychology (2
Doctoral researcher positions 75%), Computational Cognitive Science (1
PostDoc position), Clinical Psychology (1 PostDoc position), Psychiatry
(2 PostDoc und 1 Doctoral researcher positions 75%). At Technische
Universitaet Darmstadt (TUDa) Artificial Intelligence and Computational
Cognitive Science (4 PostDoc and 2 Doctoral researcher positions 100%).
At Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt am Main (GU) Experimental Psychology (1
Doctoral researcher position 65%). At FIAS Computational Cognitive
Science (1 Doctoral researcher position 65%).

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