Connectionists: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Machine Learning and Robotics in Edinburgh, UK.

[Sethu Vijayakumar]

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research fellow in the
area of Machine Learning and Robotics as part of an EU-IST FP6 funded
four year project "SENSOPAC - Sensorimotor structuring of Perception
and Action". The post is available from Jan. 2006 for a maximum of
48 months and located in the School of Informatic at the University
of Edinburgh. Salary is on the RA1A scale (GBP 20,044 to GBP 30,002)
and will depend upon qualifications and experience.

The postdoctoral fellow will be responsible for developing statistical
machine learning techniques for automatically extracting sensorimotor
contingences from dynamic and kinematic movement data (collected from
robots and human experiments) and using this to learn latent model
representations of various contexts and tasks. This will involve basic
research in the fields of high dimensional, online nonparametric
regression, Bayesian model selection and latent model learning as well
as applied areas of adaptive motor control and robotics.

Candidates are expected to have a PhD in the area of machine learning
and/or adaptive motor control and strong mathematical skills in the
area of optimization, algebra and probability theory in addition to
strong programming skills in C, C++, MATLAB or equivalent. Some
experience with real world robotic systems and motor control is a plus.

More details of the job and the research group can be found at:
http://www.ipab.inf.ed.ac.uk/slmc/index.html

Online applications are encouraged at:
http://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/vacancies/index.cfm?fuseaction=vacancies.detail&vacancy_ref=3005309
Application Deadline: December 20, 2005

Informal enquiries may be addressed to:
Dr. Sethu Vijayakumar (sethu.vijayakumar [at] ed.ac.uk)

Dr. Marc Toussaint (mtoussai [at] inf.ed.ac.uk) will be available at
NIPS for an informal discussion/interview.

(Please advertise in your department using the attached flyer)
(We will continue to accept applications till the post is filled)

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Sethu Vijayakumar, Ph.D.          Assistant Professor(UK Lecturer)
Director, IPAB, School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh
2107F JCMB, The Kings Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, United Kingdom
URL: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/svijayak Ph: +44(0)131 651 3444
SLMC Research Group URL: http://www.ipab.informatics.ed.ac.uk/slmc
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Adjunct Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science,  University of Southern California
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