[jobs] Fully Funded PhD position in Reinforcement Learning at Orebro University
Todor Stoyanov
In short:
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Örebro University has an open position for a highly-motivated PhD student interested in working on Reinforcement Learning (RL) for manipulation. The position is offered for a period of four years and is fully funded through the Wallenberg Autonomous Systems and Software Program in Artificial Intelligence (WASP-AI).
About the project:
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The PhD position is associated with a WASP-AI collaborative project between Örebro University and Lund university. The PhD student employed at Örebro University will work on reinforcement learning in continuous state spaces. The primary goal of this thesis will be to include background knowledge and symbolic / semantic / task-specific information into the RL problem. The student will collaborate with a second PhD student employed at Lund University in order to extract relevant domain knowledge from interaction with a human operator, and subsequently encode this knowledge and use it to guide policy search for manipulation planning. In addition to research duties, the PhD student is expected to participate in PhD courses organized by the WASP-AI initiative, as well as to take part in teaching and supervision of undergraduate students. Teaching duties are funded by the University and can result in contract prolongation.
Application procedure:
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Applications are accepted immediately, with a deadline for application by October 25th.
Please submit all required documents through our online application system:
https://www.oru.se/english/working-at-orebro-university/jobs-and-vacancies/job/?jid=20180370
Expected employment start date is 1st of January 2019.
About the employer:
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Örebro University (www.oru.se) is a young university which currently enrolls more than 17,000 students. It is located in Örebro, a city of 130,000 inhabitants, situated in central Sweden.
The Center for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems (AASS) is one of the Strong Research Environments at Örebro University. It carries out multi-disciplinary research at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, computer vision, computer science, and measurement technology. The research and human environment at AASS is young and enthusiastic. Researchers come from a dozen different countries, in Europe and worldwide, and have different scientific and cultural backgrounds. AASS also frequently hosts international researchers and is involved in several international projects.
AASS is internationally renowned for its research in mobile robotics, cognitive robotic systems, robot ecologies, and artificial olfaction. Further information can be found at:
About WASP-AI:
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Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP) is Sweden’s largest ever individual research program, a major national initiative for strategically basic research, education and faculty recruitment. The program is initiated and generously funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW) with 2.6 billion SEK. In addition to this, the program receives support from collaborating industry and from participating universities to form a total budget of 3.5 billion SEK. Major goals are more than 50 new professors and more than 300 new PhDs within AI, Autonomous Systems and Software. The vision of WASP is excellent research and competence in artificial intelligence, autonomous systems and software for the benefit of Swedish industry. For more information about the research and other activities conducted within WASP please visit: http://wasp-sweden.org/
Extra information:
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For additional information, please contact Todor Stoyanov (todor.s...@oru.se)
-- Todor Stoyanov Associate Professor Mobile Robotics and Olfaction Lab, AASS, Orebro University https://mro.oru.se/people/todor-stoyanov/ --