<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30);font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt">Dear All,</span><div><font color="#201f1e" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="4"><br></font><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0px"><div style="margin:0px 0px 16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(32,31,30)">*Apologies for cross-posting*</span></div><div style="margin:0px 0px 16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(32,31,30)">We are pleased to announce an opportunity for a funded PhD studentship (<b>Cross-Modal Language Learning with Large Language Models through Human-Robot Interaction</b>) at the Center for Robotics and Neural Systems (CRNS) at Plymouth University, UK. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The closing date for applications is</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,36,81)"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(200,38,19)"><b>12 noon on </b></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(204,0,0)"><b>15th March 2024</b></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(32,31,30)"><b> </b></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(59,32,77)"><b>(The difference in tuition fees between national and international students will be waived for international candidates)</b></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(32,31,30)">.</span></div><p style="margin-bottom:1rem;font-family:poppins;font-size:16.8px;color:rgb(33,37,41)"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">This exciting project aims to create a robot learning framework that integrates the wide linguistic capabilities of <b>Large Language Models </b>(LLMs) with robot perceptual information </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:18.6667px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">(e.g., visual and/or haptic perception)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> for language learning covering <b>word grounding</b> and bottom-up <b>sentence formation</b>, which can make robots develop language and understand human communication across contexts (</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(59,32,77)"><b>more details and research questions are available in the link below</b></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">). More details <b>about the topic </b>and </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(134,17,6)"><b>how to apply</b></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> are available at: </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></p></div><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(36,36,36)"><br></span></div><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(36,36,36)"><a href="https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DFL347/phd-studentship-cross-modal-language-learning-with-large-language-models-through-human-robot-interaction" id="m_-5479633246330233849m_5914486243987487993m_-4772286172351863644m_-4758643045560049694m_902594104890458683m_2042776827101236407m_-7987466418608893144LPlnk" title="https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DFL347/phd-studentship-cross-modal-language-learning-with-large-language-models-through-human-robot-interaction" target="_blank">https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DFL347/phd-studentship-cross-modal-language-learning-with-large-language-models-through-human-robot-interaction</a></span></div><div><div id="m_-5479633246330233849m_5914486243987487993m_-4772286172351863644m_-4758643045560049694m_902594104890458683m_2042776827101236407m_-7987466418608893144LPBorder_GTaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuam9icy5hYy51ay9qb2IvREZMMzQ3L3BoZC1zdHVkZW50c2hpcC1jcm9zcy1tb2RhbC1sYW5ndWFnZS1sZWFybmluZy13aXRoLWxhcmdlLWxhbmd1YWdlLW1vZGVscy10aHJvdWdoLWh1bWFuLXJvYm90LWludGVyYWN0aW9u" style="width:800px;margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:16px;max-width:800px;min-width:424px"><table id="m_-5479633246330233849m_5914486243987487993m_-4772286172351863644m_-4758643045560049694m_902594104890458683m_2042776827101236407m_-7987466418608893144LPContainer100509" role="presentation" style="padding:12px 36px 12px 12px;width:800px;border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(200,200,200);border-radius:2px"><tbody><tr valign="top" style="border-spacing:0px"><td><div id="m_-5479633246330233849m_5914486243987487993m_-4772286172351863644m_-4758643045560049694m_902594104890458683m_2042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