Connectionists: UMich PhD student recruiting in Corso Group -- Foundations of ML and Human+AI Teaming

[Jason Corso]

The Corso Group at the University of Michigan is Recruiting PhD Students!

Are you passionate about pushing the boundaries of AI, machine
learning, and computer vision? Does the lack of fundamental
understanding about how data distributions lead to certain properties
in the resulting model nag at you?  Are you driven to improve how AI
and Humans naturally collaborate in the physical world?

The Corso Group (COG) at the University of Michigan is recruiting 2-3
talented, self-motivated, and creative PhD students for the 2024-2025
academic year.

Led by Prof. Jason Corso, COG has been pioneering advances in physical
AI and visual AI for the last two decades. We've contributed seminal
work in areas such as machine learning foundations, video
understanding (including the first paper on video captioning),
human-in-the-loop computer vision, and interactive physical systems.

Current Research Areas:
- Human+AI collaboration to solve real-world challenges in the 3D
world, including rural healthcare and mechanics (e.g., DARPA PTG
program where I'm the PI: DARPA PTG, DARPA News).
- Foundational machine learning: understanding the relationship
between data, datasets, embeddings and models; enforcing certain
structure during model learning to enforce problem-relevant
properties; adaptive learning through self-guided inquiry with no
labeling.
- Procedural and instructional computer vision in goal-oriented physical AI.
- Bridging the sim2real gap.
…and many more exciting challenges!

We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, races,
genders, identities, ages, and degrees, both domestic and
international. Students can be recruited through CSE, ECE, and ROB PhD
programs.

Interested?
Submit your interest by completing this form by Dec. 1.
https://forms.gle/Z7HxEynHzBBgJtKV9

Note: While I also serve as co-founder and Chief Scientist at Voxel51
https://voxel51.com (creators of the open-source FiftyOne toolkit),
these PhD positions are unrelated to Voxel51. Learn more here:
https://fiftyone.ai and https://github.com/voxel51/fiftyone