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<p class="MsoNormal">PhD position available for proactive human-robot interaction, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Embodied AI and Neurorobotics invites, part of Centre for BioRobotics (CBR) at the Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute at the University of Southern Denmark, is offering:
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<p class="MsoNormal">One PhD positions starting from September 1, 2017. Applications are invited from candidates with a master’s degree.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The candidate will focus on developing embodied neural mechanisms for multi-sensory integration, proactive robot control, and action sequence learning for proactive human-robot interaction in Welfare domain. The candidate will also be part
of our project Health-CAT: “Health Care Assisting Technology” recently funded by the Interreg program. A part of the project aims to develop high-level (neural) control of a mobile service robot to efficiently assist and interact with people/nurses in hospital
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<p class="MsoNormal">The successful candidate will be expected to have an academic university degree in the field of artificial intelligence, computer science, control system engineering, robotics, or a quantitative field.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A background in multi-sensory integration, machine learning, dynamic neural fields, complex signal processing, hardware implementation, and robotics as well as good programming skills (e.g., ROS, C, C++, MatLab, Java) are desirable.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Further information is available from Associate Professor Poramate Manoonpong (email:
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Please refer to the official advert [1] for application details and guideline.
<b>The deadline for applications via the online system [1] is </b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">30/07/2017</span>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">[1] <a href="http://www.sdu.dk/da/service/ledige_stillinger">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Associate Professor
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">SDU Embodied Systems for Robotics and Learning, The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="mailto:poma@mmmi.sdu.dk"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">poma@mmmi.sdu.dk
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">University of Southern Denmark</span></b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">
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