The Informatics Institute at the University of Amsterdam invites applications for a fully funded position for a PhD student in the area of decision-theoretic active perception. The position is within the Intelligent Systems Lab Amsterdam and will be supervised by Dr. Shimon Whiteson.
Application closing date: 15 January 2013 Starting date: 1 March 2013 (later starting date is possible) Duration: 4 years The goal of the research is to develop new decision-theoretic algorithms to facilitate active perception in multi-camera tracking systems. Doing so will require advancing the state of the art in approximate off-line and on-line planning methods for partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs). The project is funded by a grant from STW (Dutch national technology foundation) and is a collaboration with TNO (Dutch national research laboratory) and Eagle Vision, a company that offers multi-camera tracking systems. Applicants must have a master's degree in computer science or a closely related area. In addition, a successful candidate should have: * strong math and programming skills. * strong background in artificial intelligence: particularly useful is knowledge of decision-theoretic planning, machine learning, reinforcement learning, and computer vision. * strong oral and written communication skills. The successful candidate will be based in the Intelligent Systems Lab Amsterdam (ISLA) within the Informatics Institute at the University of Amsterdam. The institute was recently ranked among the top 50 computer science departments in the world by the 2011 QS World University IT Rankings. ISLA consists of 20 members of faculty, 20 postdoctoral researchers, and more than 50 PhD students. Members of the lab are actively pursuing a variety of research initiatives, including machine learning, decision-theoretic planning and learning, multiagent systems, human-computer-interaction, natural language processing, information retrieval, and computer vision. Some of the things we have to offer: * competitive pay and excellent benefits * extremely friendly working environment * high-level of interaction * location near the city center (10 minutes by bicycle) of one Europe's most beautiful and lively cities * international environment (10+ nationalities in the group) * access to high-end computing facilities (cluster with 4,000+ cores) * brand-new building Since Amsterdam is a very international city where almost everybody speaks and understands English, candidates need not be afraid of the language barrier. For further information, including instructions on submitting an application, see the official job ad at http://bit.ly/T06xXn Informal inquiries can be made by email to Shimon Whiteson ([email protected]). _______________________________________________ uai mailing list [email protected] https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
