Position Available in Collective Robotics

[Luca Gambardella]

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IDSIA -  (http://www.idsia.ch)
Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale, Lugano,
Switzerland

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
http://www.idsia.ch/luca/opening_coll_rob.htm

In Collective/Cooperative Autonomous Robotics

For a period of 1 year, starting summer 1998, with possible extensions.

Candidates for this position need to have a PhD in Mobile Robotics and
experience with learning and/or adaptation paradigms or a PhD in Computer
Science and basic knowledge of mobile robotics.
Experience with real robot is appreciated.

IDSIA's research focuses on artificial neural nets, reinforcement learning,
combinatorial optimization, evolutionary computation. More precisely, IDSIA
is involved with LAMI EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of
Lausanne) in a project supported by Swiss National Science Foundation
concerning with "Methodology for Collective Robot Design". 
The goal is to study how to combine reactive behaviour with learning or
adaptation capabilities in order to obtain complex, robust and perhaps
emergent group behaviors with a team of simple robots.

SALARY: commensurate with experience - There is travel funding in case of
papers accepted at important conferences. 

DEADLINE: June 15th 1998 

Applications (including curriculum vitae, names and addresses of at least
three references, and a list of publications) should be sent to the
following address, where also further information can be obtained: 

Luca Maria Gambardella 
IDSIA 
C.so Elvezia 36
6900 Lugano 
Switzerland
Phone : +41 91-911 98 38
Fax : +41 91-911 98 39
email: luca at idsia.ch 
http://www.idsia.ch/luca