Connectionists: Post-doctoral position at Royal Holloway

[chrisw@cs.rhul.ac.uk]

Post-doctoral position at Royal Holloway, University of London

Applications are invited for a post-doctoral research position in the
Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, to work with Chris Watkins
on reinforcement learning.

The post is for up to four years, fully funded by the Composing Learning
for Artificial Cognitive Systems (CompLACS) project, which is a Framework
7 collaborative project between 8 universities in the UK, Germany, the
Netherlands, Austria, and France.  The post will start in Spring 2011.

The aim of the research is to go beyond conventional reinforcement
learning to develop theory and algorithms for autonomous exploration and
learning of multiple skills, and the autonomous development of skill-based
representations of the environment.  You will be expected to collaborate
with other project partners in theoretical work, and especially in
implementing and evaluating novel learning systems on application
platforms, which include UAVs, a robot arm, and a news-analysis system. 
There will be opportunities for you to visit other project partner sites
in Europe.

You should have:

* a strong interest in doing basic, creative research in machine learning
* a PhD in machine learning or an allied discipline, with publication
* strong numerical programming skills to implement learning algorithms

The Royal Holloway CS department has an exceptional track record in
machine learning research.  You will also be expected to collaborate with
groups at UCL. It would be feasible for you to live in central London.

You are welcome to make preliminary enquiries to Chris Watkins,
chrisw at cs.rhul.ac.uk.

To apply formally, you should submit an application form with a list of
publications and a statement of research interests. Further details and an
application form are available to download at 
http://www.rhul.ac.uk/jobs/home.aspx or by contacting the Recruitment Team
by email: recruitment at rhul.ac.uk or tel: +44 1784 414241
Please quote the reference: X0211/6237

Salary for this post is in the range of £31,987- 32,881 per annum
inclusive of London Allowance.

Closing date 12 noon, 22nd  March 2011

The College is committed to equality and diversity, and encourages
applications from  all sections of the community.