<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="padding: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr style="vertical-align: top;" class=""><td colspan="4" class="erq_searchv4_heading1" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 33, 71); padding-right: 5px; width: 480px;">Postdoctoral Researcher on Reinforcement Learning Project</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align: top;" class=""><td colspan="4" class="erq_searchv4_heading2" style="padding-top: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; margin: 0px; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold;">Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align: top;" class=""><td colspan="4" class="erq_searchv4_heading3" style="padding-top: 4px; padding-bottom: 10px; margin: 0px; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"></td></tr><tr style="vertical-align: top;" class=""><td colspan="4" class="erq_searchv4_heading3" style="padding-top: 4px; padding-bottom: 10px; margin: 0px;"><p class=""><font face="verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif" size="1" class="">A two year, full-time postdoctoral position is available for a researcher in the area of reinforcement learning. This is a European Research Council-funded project, working with Professor Shimon Whiteson. The goal of the project is to develop a new class of reinforcement learning and sample-based decision-theoretic planning methods that overcome fundamental obstacles to the efficient optimisation of control policies for autonomous agents. <br class=""><br class=""></font><span style="font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif;" class="">For further details and to apply please visit: </span><font face="verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><a href="http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/1333-full.html" class="">http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/1333-full.html</a> </span></font></p></td></tr><tr style="vertical-align: top;" class=""><td class="erq_searchv4_heading5_label" style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; margin: 0px; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; width: 130px; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"></td><td class="erq_searchv4_heading5_text" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; width: 220px; font-size: 8pt;"><br class=""></td><td class="erq_searchv4_heading5_label" style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; margin: 0px; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; width: 130px; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br class=""></td><td class="erq_searchv4_heading5_text" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; width: 220px; font-size: 8pt;"><br class=""></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div id="bloop_sign_1473433711025294080" class="bloop_sign" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">-------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Shimon Whiteson | Associate Professor</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Dept. of Computer Science | U. of Oxford</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Room 407 | Wolfson Building</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">-------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Tutorial Fellow | St. Catherine’s College</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Room 3 | Alan Bullock Building</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">-------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><div class="">+44 (0) 1865 283 515 (dept. office)</div><div class="">+44 (0) 1865 281 574 (college office)</div><div class="">+44 (0) 7443 287 697 (mobile)</div></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><div class="">-------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><div class=""><a href="mailto:shimon.whiteson@cs.ox.ac.uk" class="">shimon.whiteson@cs.ox.ac.uk</a> </div><div class=""><a href="https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/shimon.whiteson/" class="">www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/shimon.whiteson</a></div></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">-------------------------------------------------------</div></div></div></div><br class=""></body></html>