Connectionists: Post-doctoral research position at INESC-ID, Lisbon

[Francisco S. Melo]

Apologies for multiple postings.

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POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH GRANT (BPD)
Project: INSIDE
Ref: CMUP-ERI/HCI/0051/2013

The Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Investigação e 
Desenvolvimento (INESC-ID), in Lisbon, Portugal, is seeking a highly 
motivated postdoctoral fellow to integrate the GAIPS research team 
(gaips.inesc-id.pt) for project INSIDE (www.project-inside.pt).

INSIDE is a research project that investigates symbiotic human-robot 
interaction and applications to the therapy of children with autism 
spectrum disorders. The INSIDE consortium includes INESC-ID, from 
Portugal, Carnegie Mellon University, from the USA, and Instituto 
Superior Técnico, Nova University, Hospital Garcia de Orta, all from 
Portugal. It also includes three Portuguese SMEs (IDMind, PLUX and 
VoiceInteraction).

The hired post-doctoral researcher is expected to contribute to both the 
fundamental and the technological research in INSIDE, while also 
assuming a coordinating role of other grantees working in development. 
In particular, the researcher is expected to contribute to one or more 
of the following topics:

- Development of a hierarchical architecture for human-robot 
unstructured interaction that accommodates sensing, reasoning and acting 
at the task, action and motor levels;

- Deployment of novel machine learning approaches allowing a robot to 
learn interaction strategies from human examples obtained during 
wizard-of-oz studies; such approaches should be able to handle sparse, 
incomplete and noisy data;

The grantee is also expected to participate in all project meetings.
The grant has duration of 12 months, starting on 01/12/2016, and can be 
renewed up to August 2018 (renewal is subject to suitable performance). 
The fellowship contract will be celebrated according to the current 
“Regulations for Research Grants of the Foundation for Science and 
Technology” 
(http://www.fct.pt/apoios/bolsas/docs/RegulamentoBolsasFCT2015.pdf), the 
INESC-ID Grant regulations approved by FCT, and to the Status of 
Scientific Research Fellow (Lei nº 40/2004 de 18 de Agosto, and its 
successive amendments). It includes a monthly stipend of 1495 euros, in 
accordance with the values stipulated in the “Regulations for Research 
Grants of the Foundation for Science and Technology” and INESC-ID Lisboa 
Grant Regulations approved by FCT as well as accident insurance and 
social security contribution.

The researcher will integrate the GAIPS group of INESC-ID 
(gaips.inesc-id.pt) in TagusPark, and be supervised by Prof. Francisco 
S. Melo (gaips.inesc-id.pt/~fmelo).

= Selection process =

The successful candidates are expected to hold a PhD in computer 
science, electrical engineering or related area, with experience in one 
(or more) of the following areas:

- Human-robot interaction;

- Machine learning;

The selection will be based on the following criteria:

- Academic record of the candidate (including publication record and 
past experience in research projects) and relevance of the research 
areas of the candidate with respect to the goals of the project (70%);

- (20%) Motivation letter;

- (10%) Personal references;

The candidates may be subject to an interview, and the jury may decide 
to offer or not the fellowship, depending on the applicants CV and 
performance. For interviewed candidates, the interview will count for 
50% of the evaluation of each criteria above.

The Jury may also decide not to assign the fellowship, if none of 
candidates meets the required conditions.

The jury will convene in 30/11/2014 and is composed of
The final evaluation results will be publicized through an ordered list, 
and the candidates will be notified of the Jury decision by email.

= Application process =

Candidates should submit:

- A detailed CV (including list of publications)

- Motivation letter

- Copy of official academic degree certificates

- Name of two personal references

Deadline for application: December 14, 2016

Submissions should be sent by e-mail to:

Francisco S. Melo
E-mail: fmelo at inesc-id.pt
Address:
INESC-ID / Instituto Superior Técnico
TagusPark, Edifício IST
Av. Prof. Dr. Aníbal Cavaco Silva,
2744-016 Porto Salvo
Portugal
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Assistant Professor at IST
Senior Researcher at INESC-ID

GAIPS - INESC-ID
IST TagusPark
Av. Prof. Dr. Cavaco Silva
Room 2N7.15
2780-990 Porto Salvo
PORTUGAL

E-mail: fmelo at inesc-id.pt
http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/~fmelo