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Dear colleagues,</div>
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two researcher positions are available at the Personal Robotics laboratory </div>
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of Imperial College London; one is at the postdoctoral level and one at the</div>
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doctoral level. The successful candidates will work under the supervision</div>
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of Dr Yiannis Demiris (www.demiris.info) within the context of a new EU FP7 </div>
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STREP project WYSIWYD (What you Say is What you Did), which started in </div>
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January 2014 and will run for three years. The project aims at developing humanoid </div>
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robot systems capable of open-ended learning of sensorimotor and cognitive skills </div>
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during multimodal interaction with humans. </div>
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<div>The positions offer an exciting interdisciplinary topic and an excellent working </div>
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Candidates with strong background in one or more of: computer vision, </div>
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human action understanding, humanoid robot control, and machine learning are </div>
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encouraged to apply. Strong computing and mathematical skills are a must,</div>
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along with a strong desire to see your algorithms working on real robots. </div>
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Details about the positions, key responsibilities, ideal person specifications, </div>
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and the application procedure that needs to be followed can be found at the lab’s </div>
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www.imperial.ac.uk/personalrobotics </div>
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(click on Join us)</div>
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Deadline for receipt of applications is the 27th of February 2014. </div>
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With best wishes,</div>
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Yiannis</div>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Dr Yiannis Demiris</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br>
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Reader (Associate Professor) in Personal Robotics,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br>
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Rm 1014,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br>
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br>
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2BT, UK</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br>
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Tel: +44-(0)2075946300, Fax: +44-(0)2075946274</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br>
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">WWW:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><a href="http://www.iis.ee.ic.ac.uk/yiannis">http://www.iis.ee.ic.ac.uk/yiannis</a></span></div>
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