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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Postdoc position available for Proactive Human-robot Interaction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The Embodied AI and Neurorobotics (ENS) Lab (<a href="http://ens-lab.sdu.dk/">http://ens-lab.sdu.dk/</a>), part of Centre for BioRobotics (CBR) at the Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute at the University of Southern
Denmark, is offering a postdoc position starting from September 2017 or as soon as possible thereafter, for up to three years.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The postdoc 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
postdoc 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 environments. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The successful candidates will be expected to have
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">1) a PhD degree in artificial intelligence, computer science, control system engineering, robotics, computational neuroscience, or a quantitative field.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">2) articles published in international peer-reviewed journals documenting experience with neural dynamics, learning and adaptation in neural systems, dynamic neural fields, sensor fusion, multisensory integration,
complex signal processing, mobile robot control, sequence learning. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">3) strong background on <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">- multi-sensory integration, machine learning, dynamic neural fields, complex signal processing, hardware implementation, and robotics.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">4) good programming skills (e.g., ROS, C, C++, MatLab, Java).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Additionally, the candidate should have excellent writing skills and be able to work independently. The successful candidate for the position will be affiliated to the Embodied AI and Neurorobotics Lab at the
Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, the University of Southern Denmark.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Further information is available from Associate Professor Poramate Manoonpong (email:
<a href="mailto:poma@mmmi.sdu.dk">poma@mmmi.sdu.dk</a> ).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Please refer to the official advert [1] for application details and guideline.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b>The deadline for applications via the online system [<span style="color:#1F497D">2</span>] 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>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">[1] <span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="https://www.jobindex.dk/jobannonce/jobnet/7372149">https://www.jobindex.dk/jobannonce/jobnet/7372149</a>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">[2] <span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="https://ssl1.peoplexs.com/Peoplexs22/CandidatesPortalNoLogin/ApplicationForm.cfm?CustomerCode=syd1&PortalID=3797&VacatureID=913900">https://ssl1.peoplexs.com/Peoplexs22/CandidatesPortalNoLogin/ApplicationForm.cfm?CustomerCode=syd1&PortalID=3797&VacatureID=913900</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Best regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Poramate Manoonpong
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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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