Visiting Student Position (in Robotics+NLP) at TTI-Chicago

[mba...@ttic.edu]

We are seeking applications for a paid visiting student position starting this Spring or Summer 2015 to work at the intersection of robotics, perception, natural language understanding, and machine learning. The visiting student will work primarily with TTI-Chicago faculty Matthew Walter (http://ttic.uchicago.edu/~mwalter) and Mohit Bansal (http://ttic.uchicago.edu/~mbansal), and will have the opportunity to collaborate with other faculty at TTI-Chicago and the University of Chicago.

The broad goal of this work is to enable robots to learn semantically rich, metrically accurate models of their surroundings from their sensor streams (e.g., vision, RGB-D, LIDAR) and natural language descriptions. Existing solutions have shown promise, but are limited both in terms of language complexity (closed vocabulary, compact descriptions, shallow parsing, missing coreference) and in terms of model complexity (situated language, flat structure, and alignment). We propose to address these limitations by learning new language and spatial-semantic environment models; and by building upon recent advancements in NLP and in machine vision.

The position will be based at TTI-Chicago (http://www.ttic.edu/), a computer science graduate institute located on the University of Chicago campus, with vibrant research groups in robotics, speech and language processing, machine learning, computer vision, and theory.

Please see the online advertisement for more information and for details on how to apply:

http://ttic.uchicago.edu/~mwalter/nlu-mapping-job.html


Regards,
Mohit Bansal
Matthew Walter