UE07: £40,247.00 - £47,874.00 Per Annum.
CSE / School of Informatics.
Fixed Term Contract - 2 Years.
Full Time - 35 Hours Per Week.
The Opportunity:
This post will be part of the Centre for AI for Assistive Autonomy, a mission-driven research centre established using a UKRI Turing AI World Leading Researcher Fellowship awarded to Prof Subramanian Ramamoorthy.
The post-holder will be the lead researcher anchoring laboratory activities in the area of human-robot interaction for assistance with activities of daily living. This represents one of the main application themes within the centre, alongside task level autonomy in surgical robotics and autonomous vehicles. This work benefits from parallel work of a foundations team, whose focus will be on fundamental investigations into generative modelling of the full stack of human behaviour, from sensorimotor control to higher level cognitive decision making, to enable the development of person-centred and teachable autonomous systems.
In addition to the Centre Director (Ramamoorthy), the post holder will have the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues in a wide range of specialties across the University, including in machine learning and vision (e.g. Fisher, Mac Aodha, Bilen, Sevilla-Lara, Vergari), probabilistic programming (e.g. Narayanaswamy, Kammar, Belle), natural language understanding and interaction (e.g. Lascarides, Lapata, Gal), computational cognitive science and neuroscience (e.g. Lucas, Hennig, Nolan, Rajendran), as well as in robotics and neurotechnology (e.g. Vijayakumar, Nazarpour) and engineering of novel sensing and devices (Prodromakis, Koutsos, Amjadi). Beyond the university, the Centre will pursue collaborations with international teams including at The University of Texas at Austin (Stone), Stanford University (Kochenderfer), University of Bremen (Beetz) and Monash University (Burke).
The Centre will also have a strong industrial partner network, including Fourier Intelligence, Honda Research Europe, Shadow Robot, Sony Europe and other organisations who will be engaged in the Centre’s work at all stages, with the expectation that this network grows over time as the Centre’s work grows and begins to have broader impacts.
The central purpose of the job is to carry out research on robot learning in human-robot interaction settings including assistance with activities of daily living (e.g. personal care and tasks in the kitchen).
Building on an established track record and facilities available within the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics, the post holder will develop new methods for interactively intelligent robotic systems addressing a range of issues including the following:
The candidate is expected to take intellectual ownership of core scientific questions in this space, developing new ideas and driving collaborative projects towards significant publications, leveraging the expertise of the supervision team and other scientific collaborators.
It is also expected that the post holder will contribute to the development of new assets in the form of experimental robotic systems and demonstrators. These will be expected to make use of data and model assets created by other Centre researchers. This work will be carried out in collaboration with stakeholders including clinical researchers (e.g. at the Anne Rowling Neurology Clinic) and industrial partners (e.g. Fourier Intelligence, Smplicare).
Your skills and attributes for success:
Essential:
Desirable:
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Application Information:
Please ensure you include the following documents in your application:
- CV
- Cover letter
Contact details for informal enquiries: Ram Ramamoorthy, [email protected]
As a valued member of our team you can expect:
Championing equality, diversity and inclusion
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Key dates to note
The closing date for applications is 10 January 2025.
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