[Jobs] Fully-funded PhD positions in Robotics at Purdue CS

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Nov 24, 2021, 11:24:07 AM11/24/21

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The Cognitive Robot Autonomy and Learning (CoRAL) Lab (https://purdue-corallab.github.io/) in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University (www.purdue.edu), under the direction of Prof. Ahmed Qureshi (https://qureshiahmed.github.io/), is looking to fill multiple Ph.D. positions starting Fall'2022 in robotics, computer vision, and machine learning for projects including, but not limited to:

Scalable Reinforcement Learning for real-world robot applications.
Optimization-based Multi-agent Task and Motion planning
Learning-based Deformable Object Manipulation
Fast Visual Navigation in Dynamic, Adversarial Environments
Multimodal Tactile-Visual Active Sensing
Vision-based Semantic Robot Grasping & Control
Human-centered Robot Mobile Manipulation for Collaboration Tasks
Differentiable Simulation for Visuomotor Control

Interested candidates must apply officially through the Purdue CS admission portal (https://www.cs.purdue.edu/graduate/admission/steps.html) before Dec 20, 2021, for the Fall 2022 session, and mention Prof. Ahmed Qureshi as a potential advisor.

In addition, please also email a single pdf of the following documents to ahquresh...@gmail.com with the subject line "[jobs] Ph.D. Fall 2022 - <your name>":

a cover letter
copies of up to three of your relevant scientific papers, if applicable

Applicants are encouraged to include a link to their personal website or multimedia portfolio in the email and provide section-wise TOEFL /IELTS scores in the cover letter.

Any candidate with proven experience and a healthy publication record is encouraged to apply. However, a strong preference will be given to candidates with publication in the following or other similar venues: CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, RSS, ICRA, IROS, SIGGRAPH, etc.

Some relevant links for additional information:

Purdue is ranked nationally among the top 5 most innovative schools, top 20 in computer science, and top 4 in Engineering: https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2020/Q3/u.s.-news-and-world-report-rankings-purdue-nations-5th-most-innovative-school.html