job opportunity

[N.Sharkey@dcs.shef.ac.uk]

Preliminary announcement please feel free to pass to other boards or colleagues.

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	   POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER POSITION

	NEURAL NETWORKS FOR COORDINATED ROBOTIC CONTROL

		Dept Computer Science
		University of Sheffield, UK

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A post-doctoral researcher is required for 18 months (in the first
instance) to run a project with another researcher on the Coordination
of Robotic Control funded by the Engineering and Physical Science
Research Council, UK (EPSRC). The researcher would join a small
productive team of researchers on two other projects in the
Neurocomputing Group at Sheffield: Adaptive Generalisation and Dynamic
Neural Nets (Economic and Social Research Council, UK) and Network
Programming for Safety Critical Systems (Science and Engineering
Research Council/Department of Trade and Industry). Although the
project is housed in Computer Science, it is in collaboration with the
Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering.

Applicants should be skilled in C programming and have a proven track
record of research on Artificial Neural Nets and be willing to move
between different types of learning methods. Experience with robotics
or control engineering would be useful but not essential. An important
aspect of the project is to develop an intermediate level theory of
applications focussed on the coordination of network modules with
different architectures and that were trained by different learning
methods.

All formal application must be send to the University Personell
Department who will also send out further particulars. I will send out
a more formal advert to this effect next week. This is just a
preliminary announcement to get an idea of the field of applications
and to get some discussion going.

If you are interested please send a brief CV or express your intention to apply to
jill at dcs.sheffield.ac.uk

Thanks


 Noel Sharkey  	   	   
 Professor of Computer Science   
 Department of Computer Science  
 Regent Court                    
 University of Sheffield 	 
 S1 4DP, Sheffield, UK           

 N.Sharkey at dcs.shef.ac.uk

FAX: (0742) 780972