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| Aaron Sloman... |
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UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM, UK
SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
RESEARCH FELLOW - COGNITIVE ROBOTICS PROJECT
Applications are invited for a Research Fellow to work on the EU-funded
project: CogX: Cognitive Systems that Self-Understand and Self-Extend
led by Dr. Jeremy Wyatt at the University of Birmingham UK.
For general information about the project see
http://cogx.eu
For work being done in Birmingham see
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/go/irlab
For details of this post and further information about how to apply
see
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogx/rf09/advert.txt
http://snipurl.com/cogx-rf-09-1
The post is available from 1st April 2009 onwards for the lifetime
of the project, which ends on 30th June 2012.
The post will be concerned with the integration of reasoning,
introspection and motivation systems into a complex intelligent
robot.
The person appointed to this post will work on new methods for
representing and reasoning about a system's knowledge and capabilities,
and use these new approaches to build an architectural framework for
managing an intelligent system's goals and motivations, using tools
and concepts developed within the eu CoSy project, which ended in
August 2008:
http://www.cognitivesystems.org
The work will have a strong practical element, with the post holder
required to play a lead role in the theoretical and practical
integration of project-wide results (including vision, language,
navigation and planning systems) into a robotic demonstrator system,
using the developed architectural framework. Applicants should have
a strong background in AI planning, reasoning, architectures for
intelligent systems, sequential decision making or middleware for
intelligent systems, and should already have produced high quality
research reports.
The post holder will work in a team of six researchers within the
Intelligent Robotics Lab at Birmingham, and along with partner groups at
five other universities. Information on the CogX project is available at
http://cogx.eu <http://cogx.eu/> .
The Intelligent Robotics Lab (http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/go/irlab) is
a growing centre for research in robotics, cognition and machine
learning in the UK. We collaborate with engineers, psychologists and
biologists to develop new ideas and techniques. The group currently
has 18 members, including 4 faculty, 1 honorary professor, 4
postdoctoral researchers and 9 doctoral students, and holds over
GBP1.6m in external research funding.
The successful applicant will be expected to contribute to writing
future grant proposals, and setting the research agenda for the
future work of the group. Strong communication and management skills
are therefore essential.
The ideal candidate must hold a PhD in Computer Science, AI, Cognitive
Science, Engineering or a related subject, OR possess equivalent
research experience, including, if possible, robotics research
experience and linux expertise. Excellent programming skills, in C/C++
or Java, together with the ability to engineer software to very high
standards of reliability, are also required.
Informal enquiries (preferably by email) to any of:
Dr Nick Hawes
email: N.A.Hawes at (no spam) cs.bham.ac.uk
tel.: +44 121 415 8279
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~nah/
Dr Jeremy Wyatt
email: J.L.Wyatt at (no spam) cs.bham.ac.uk
tel.: +44 121 414 4788,
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~jlw/
Dr Richard Dearden
email: R.W.Dearden at (no spam) cs.bham.ac.uk
tel.:+44 121 414 6687
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rwd/
Prof Aaron Sloman
email: A.Sloman at (no spam) cs.bham.ac.uk
tel.: +44 121 414 4775
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/
Starting salary of up to GBP 38,757 a year, in the range of GBP
36,532 to GBP 43,622 a year (potential progression on performance
once in post to GBP 49,096).
Closing date: 6th February 2009. Late applications will be considered if
the appointments process has not gone too far.
Job Reference: 43285
For more details, including the application procedure, see:
http://snipurl.com/cogx-rf-09-1
Please include with your application a statement of how you think
you can contribute to the project as described on the web site.
Please also, if possible, provide a url for a research paper you are
particularly proud of (published or unpublished) to help us in the
selection process. Please do not send a collection of publications,
unless requested to do so.
If you copy your application by email to the people listed above it
will help to facilitate the selection process.
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Aaron Sloman
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/
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