IDSIA: Two Post DOC Positions in Robotics, Swarm Intelligence and Machine learning

[Luca Maria Gambardella]

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Job Opening in Robotics, Swarm Intelligence, Machine Learning and Simulation
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TWO POST DOC POSITIONS for 3 years funded by the Future and Emerging 
Technologies (FET) program of the Commission of the European Community is 
open for applications.

IDSIA, http://www.idsia.ch
Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale, Galleria 2, 
6928 Manno-Lugano, Switzerland

APPLICATION DEADLINE: July 30th 2001

STARTING: October 2001:

We are looking for two Post Doctoral candidates to work on the new European 
Project SWARM-BOTS starting October 2001. SWARM-BOTS is about the design 
and implementation of self-organising and self assembling artifacts called 
swarm-bots. The approach is inspired by recent studies in swarm 
intelligence, i.e., by studies of the self-organising and self-assembling 
capabilities shown by social insects and other animal societies. The main 
scientific goal of the project is a better understanding of swarm 
intelligence principles and of the use of these principles in engineering, 
while the main tangible goal is the demonstration of the validity of the 
approach followed by means of the construction of at least one such 
artifact. The expected results are therefore the further development of the 
swarm intelligence discipline and the design and construction of a first 
example of swarm-bots, that is, an artifact composed of a number of simpler 
robots capable of self-assembling and self-organising to adapt to its 
environment.

The project will last 36 months and will see the combined effort of 
scientists from four European laboratories (IRIDIA Bruxelles, IDSIA Lugano, 
EPFL Lausanne, CNR-IP Rome)

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CONTACT INFORMATION
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If you wish to apply, please send
(i) Detailed curriculum vitae
(ii) List of three references (and their email addresses)
(iii) Transcripts of undergraduate and graduate (if applicable) studies
(iv) Concise statement of your research interests (two pages max).
Candidates are also encouraged to submit their scores in the Graduate 
Record Examination (GRE) general test (if available).
Applications can also be submitted electronically (in plain ASCII or 
postscript format) to mailto:luca at idsia.ch.
Please connect "SWB2001PD" with your first and last name in the message 
subject. Please send all documents to:

Luca Maria Gambardella
IDSIA
Galleria 2
6928 Manno-Lugano
Switzerland
Phone : +41 91 - 610 8663
Fax : +41 91 - 610 8661
Secretary: +41 91 - 6108660
mailto:luca at idsia.ch
http://www.idsia.ch/luca