<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Flowers Team at Inria and Ensta ParisTech (France) is seeking for highly motivated and talented engineers and postdocs interested in the following topics:</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* Machine Learning for Robotics</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* Human-Robot Collaboration and Interfaces</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* Motor control and skill learning</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* Personal robotics</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* Lifelong robot learning in the context of assistive robotics</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Flowers team is a highly stimulating research environment which has been developing cutting edge research in autonomous robot learning and development, artificial curiosity, imitation learning of motor skills, human-robot adaptive interaction and robot language acquisition.</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Web: </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT329_com_zimbra_url" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT330_com_zimbra_url" style="cursor: pointer;"><a target="_blank" href="http://flowers.inria.fr/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">http://flowers.inria.fr</a></span></span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We have currently multiple engineer and postdoc positions funded by several EU-FP7-ICT "Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics" projects:</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* 3 year post-doc</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The candidate must have strong skills in mathematics, machine learning and control theory, and record of publications in relevant conferences (e.g. IROS, ICRA, RSS, NIPS) and journals (e.g. TRO, RAS, TAMD, IJRR, JMLR). Experience on active learning and reinforcement learning will be appreciated.</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* 3 year expert engineer in robotics</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Must have experience in robotics and be capable to conduct complex robotic experiments in an international collaborative project. Programming proficiency in C/C++ and Python. Expertise with real robot systems and the ROS system will be appreciated.</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* 3 year expert engineer in </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">human-machine interface</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Must have experience in developing human-machine interfaces for augmented reality and interaction with virtual worlds. Programming proficiency in C/C++ and Python.</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The candidates will be involved in a european research project on human-robot collaboration, co-working and adaptive interaction. This will also involve close collaborations with several international laboratories, including the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Lab (IAS) at the Technical University of Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt), the Machine Learning & Robotics Lab (Univ. Stuttgart), and the Intelligent Systems group at the University of Innsbruck (Austria).</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">To apply send a letter including:</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* detailed CV</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* course transcripts</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* motivation letter</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* internship reports</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Application should be sent by email to Manuel Lopes: </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT331_com_zimbra_email" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">manuel.lopes@inria.fr</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://flowers.inria.fr/mlopes/">https://flowers.inria.fr/mlopes/</a></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size: 16.363636016845703px;"><br></span></font><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Flowers Team:</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT333_com_zimbra_url" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 139); cursor: pointer;"><a target="_blank" href="http://flowers.inria.fr/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">http://flowers.inria.fr</a></span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">About Inria:</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT334_com_zimbra_url" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 139); cursor: pointer;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.inria.fr/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">http://www.inria.fr</a></span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Inria is a major research institution at the international level in applied mathematics and computer sciences. Inriaís 3,400 researchers strive to invent the digital technologies of the future. The institute is dedicated to fundamental and applied research in information and communication science and technology (ICST) but also plays a major role in technology transfer by fostering training through research, disseminating scientific and technical information, and participating in international programs. Inria develops many partnerships with industry and fosters technology transfer and company foundation in the field of ICST - some ninety companies have been founded with the support of Inria Transfer, a subsidiary of Inria, specialized in guiding, evaluating, qualifying, and financing innovative high-tech IT start-up companies. Inria is involved in standardization committees such as the IETF, ISO and the W3C of which Inria was the European host from 1995 to 2002. Throughout its eight research centres located, Inria has a workforce of 3800 (2,800 of whom are scientists from Inria or from Inriaís partner organisations such as CNRS (the French National Centre for Scientific Research), universities and leading engineering schools). The researchers at Inria published over 4,800 articles in 2010. They are behind over 270 active patents and 105 start-ups. In 2010, Inria's budget came to 252.5 million euros, 26% of which represented its own resources. They work in 173 project-teams. Many Inria researchers are also professors who supervise around 1000 doctoral students, their theses work contributing to Inria research projects.</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Inria maintains important international relations and exchanges. In Europe, Inria is a member of ERCIM, which brings together research institutes from 19 European countries. Inria is a partner in about 120 FP6 actions and 128 FP7 actions, with 71 proposals in the ICST field.</span></div></div></div></div></body></html>