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<p style="margin-bottom:0.5cm;line-height:100%"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>4 Available PhD Positions in Artificial Intelligence and Neuro/Cognitive
Robotics at the Emergent Systems Laboratory, Ritsumeikan University,
Japan</b></font></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.5cm;line-height:100%" align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#000000">The Emergent Systems Laboratory </font></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#000000"><font color="#000000">[<a href="http://www.em.ci.ritsumei.ac.jp/en" target="_blank">Link</a>]</font>
at Ritsumeikan University in Japan (nearby Kyoto) announces 4 available
PhD positions in artificial intelligence and neuro/cognitive robotics for the new projects: <b>R-GIRO</b> “AI and Semiotics” and<b> KAKEN</b> “AI and Brain”. <br></font></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.5cm;line-height:100%" align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#000000"><b>1-</b> </font></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#000000"><b>R-GIRO </b></font></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#000000">“AI and Semiotics”: (3 Positions)<br></font></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.5cm;line-height:100%" align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#000000"><b>"</b></font></span><b><span id="gmail-m_5548760106158116073gmail-m_-9211871347004968052gmail-m_-6927229080464570720gmail-:7f.co" class="gmail-m_5548760106158116073gmail-m_-9211871347004968052gmail-m_-6927229080464570720gmail-tL8wMe gmail-m_5548760106158116073gmail-m_-9211871347004968052gmail-m_-6927229080464570720gmail-EMoHub" style="text-align:left" dir="ltr">The Next-generation of Artificial Intelligence and Semiotics</span></b><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#000000"><b>"</b></font></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.5cm;line-height:100%" align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font size="2">T</font></font><font size="2" color="#000000">he successful PhD candidates will be involved in a research about</font><font size="2" color="#000000">: </font></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#0000ff"><b><span id="gmail-m_5548760106158116073gmail-m_-9211871347004968052gmail-m_-6927229080464570720gmail-:e7.co" class="gmail-m_5548760106158116073gmail-m_-9211871347004968052gmail-m_-6927229080464570720gmail-tL8wMe gmail-m_5548760106158116073gmail-m_-9211871347004968052gmail-m_-6927229080464570720gmail-EMoHub" style="text-align:left" dir="ltr">Developing AI technologies for enhancing everyday human-robot collaboration</span></b></font><font size="2" color="#000000">, under the supervision of Tadahiro Taniguchi (Project Coordinator) </font></span><font color="#000000">[<a href="http://www.tanichu.com/profile" target="_blank">Link</a>].</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.5cm;line-height:100%" align="justify"><font color="#000000"><b>*</b> Further details </font><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#000000">about the available positions and admission procedures </font></span>are </font><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#000000">available </font></span>on: <b> <a href="http://www.em.ci.ritsumei.ac.jp/info/call-for-funded-phd-candidates-research-assistants" target="_blank">R-GIRO Project "AI and Semiotics"</a></b></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.5cm;line-height:100%" align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.5cm;line-height:100%" align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#000000"><b>2-</b> </font></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#000000"><b>KAKEN</b> “AI and Brain”: (1 Position)<br></font></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.5cm;line-height:100%" align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#000000"><b>"</b></font><b><font size="2" color="#000000">Correspondence and Fusion of Artificial Intelligence and Brain Science</font></b><font size="2" color="#000000"><b>"</b></font></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.5cm;line-height:100%" align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font size="2">T</font></font><font size="2" color="#000000">he successful PhD candidate will be involved in a research about</font><font size="2" color="#000000">: </font><font size="2" color="#0000ff"><b>Understanding
Neural Computation for Double Articulation Analysis Bridging
Sensory-motor Information and Natural Language in Human Brain</b></font><font size="2" color="#000000">, under the supervision of Tadahiro Taniguchi </font></span><font color="#000000">[<a href="http://www.tanichu.com/profile" target="_blank">Link</a>].</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.5cm;line-height:100%" align="justify"><font color="#000000"><b>*</b> Further details </font><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#000000">about the available position and admission procedures </font></span>are </font><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#000000">available </font></span>on: <b> <a href="http://www.em.ci.ritsumei.ac.jp/info/call-for-a-funded-phd-candidate-for-kaken-project-ai-and-brain" target="_blank">KAKEN Project "AI and Brain"</a></b></font><font color="#000000"> </font><br></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>I. Candidate Profile</b></font></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#000000">Good mathematical background.</font></span></p>
</li><li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#000000">English communication skills for daily discussion and writing papers: IELTS 6 (TOEIC 740).</font></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#000000">Programming skills in C++, Python, Matlab </font></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#000000"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#000000"> for machine learning and intelligent robots</font></span>. Knowledge about the related frameworks or libraries (e.g., tensorflow, scikit-learn, ROS, etc.) will be highly appreciated.<br></font></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#000000">Applicants
are expected to be interested in natural language, language
acquisition, and the human neural system for cognition and social behavior [for the KAKEN Project] (preferably with an academic </font></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#000000"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#000000">background</font></span>).</font></span></li></ul>
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<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>II. Application</b></font></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#000000">Please send your application to </font><font size="2" color="#000000">(</font></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#000000"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="2"><a href="mailto:adm@em.ci.ritsumei.ac.jp" target="_blank">adm@em.ci.ritsumei.ac.jp</a></font></span>) </font><font size="2" color="#000000">no later than </font></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#000000"><strong><strong>10 May</strong></strong></font><font size="2" color="#000000"><b> 2017</b></font><font size="2" color="#000000">, including (refer to the project applied for clearly at the top of the email): <br></font></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#000000">Curriculum vitae. <br></font></span></p></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#000000">List of publications.</font></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#000000"><br></font></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#000000">Copies of major publications (Maximum 3).</font></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#000000">Outline of past research (free format).</font></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#000000">Motivation letter (free format).</font></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#000000">Outline of prospective research (free format).</font></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#000000">2 Reference letters.</font></span></li></ul>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.35cm;line-height:105%" align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><a name="m_5548760106158116073_m_-9211871347004968052_m_-6927229080464570720_m_6516418199973941820_m_9214310925933707978_x_m_-5666694530271280209_m_4470760238371202799_m_7253659354439208220__GoBack"></a>Ritsumeikan
University is a fast growing international research environment with
interdisciplinary research areas, and is the biggest private </font></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">university</font></span>
in the west of Japan. The College of Information Science and
Engineering is the biggest college in the field of Information Science
in Japan, and the Graduate School is receiving a large number of KAKENHI
Japanese governmental </font></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">research<span> </span></font></span>grants. </font></span></p>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>III. Related Papers</b><br>
</font></span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">[1] Tadahiro Taniguchi, Takayuki Nagai, Tomoaki Nakamura, Naoto
Iwahashi, Tetsuya Ogata, and Hideki Asoh, Symbol Emergence in Robotics: A
Survey, Advanced Robotics, Vol.30, (11-12) pp. 706-728 .(2016)
DOI:10.1080/01691864.2016.1164<wbr>622<span class="gmail-m_5548760106158116073gmail-m_-9211871347004968052gmail-m_-6927229080464570720gmail-m_6516418199973941820m_9214310925933707978gmail-"><br></span></font></span></font></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">[2</font></span> Tadahiro Taniguchi, Ryo Nakashima, Hailong Liu and Shogo Nagasaka,
Double Articulation Analyzer with Deep Sparse Autoencoder for
Unsupervised Word Discovery from Speech Signals, Advanced Robotics,
Vol.30 (), (11-12) pp. 770-783 .(2016) DOI:10.1080/01691864.2016.1159<wbr>981<span class="gmail-m_5548760106158116073gmail-m_-9211871347004968052gmail-m_-6927229080464570720gmail-m_6516418199973941820m_9214310925933707978gmail-"><br></span><br></font></span>[3] Tadahiro Taniguchi, Shogo Nagasaka, Ryo Nakashima, Nonparametric
Bayesian Double Articulation Analyzer for Direct Language Acquisition
from Continuous Speech Signals, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and
Developmental Systems, Vol. PP (99) .(2016) DOI:
10.1109/TCDS.2016.2550591 </font></span><div class="gmail-yj6qo gmail-ajU"><div id="gmail-:zb" class="gmail-ajR" tabindex="0"><img class="gmail-ajT" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span>Amir Aly, Ph.D.<br>Postdoctoral Research Associate</span></font><br><font size="2"><span><font size="2"><span>Ritsumeikan University<span class=""><br></span></span></font>Emergent Systems Laboratory<br>College of Information Science and Engineering<br>1-1-1 Noji Higashi, Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577<br>Japan</span></font></div></div>
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