Connectionists: Job Opportunity: Two robotics/compneuro/ML posts at the University of Sheffield

[Tony Prescott]

Dear Connectionists,

We are seeking motivated biomimetic roboticists, computational
neuroscientists and/or machine learning researchers to help develop and
extend a systems level computational model of the mammalian brain
architecture and to evaluate this model within the control system of
animal-like robots.
Up to* two posts* are available.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic disciplinary team,
led by Professor
Tony Prescott <https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/dcs/people/academic/tprescott>,
that has been working on embodied (robotic) models of the vertebrate brain
for over two decades. The current project is supported as part of the
Europe-wide FET Flagship Human Brain Project with Sub-project 3 on Systems
and Computational Neuroscience
<https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/about/project-structure/subprojects/#SP3>.
Successful candidates would join Sheffield Robotics
<http://www.sheffieldrobotics.ac.uk/>, one of the UK's leading
interdisciplinary institutes for robotics research.

The positions allow a high degree of autonomy and include considerable
scope for creativity and international collaboration with world-class
scientists and engineers. The work extends from developing novel models of
memory systems on the mammalian brain, to embedding and testing these
models within specialised neuromorphic hardware onboard biomimetic robots
including the animal-like companion robot MiRo and a novel whiskered robot
developed in partnership with Bristol Robotics Lab. Successful candidates
should have a PhD in computational neuroscience, brain-based/bio-inspired
robotics, machine learning or in related discipline, with experience in
systems neuroscience and neural network modelling.

Fore further details see g.co/kgs/G2y55x <https://t.co/QCIdwyiayu> or email
t.j.prescott at sheffield.ac.uk with enquiries. Closing date mid-september
2018.
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