Postdoctoral Researcher in Multi-Objective Decision Making

Department of Computer Science, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford.

Postdoctoral Researcher in Multi-Objective Decision Making
Fixed term for 7 months from 1 March 2016, or as soon as possible thereafter

Grade 7: Salary £30,434 – £37,394 p.a.

An opening for a full-time Postdoctoral Researcher in Multi-Objective Decision Making has arisen in the Department of Computer Science.  The aim of this project is to develop new multi-objective decision-making algorithms to aid in the development of socially intelligent telepresence robots.

Reporting to Professor Shimon Whiteson, the focus will be on on using multi-objective reasoning to integrate multiple sources of implicit feedback from the robot's environment. The research will be conducted as part of a European project called "Telepresence Reinforcement Learning Social Robot (TERESA)", in which the University of Oxford participates and collaborates on with several other European universities and companies.  The project aims to develop a socially intelligent semi-autonomous telepresence robot and successfully demonstrate its application in an elderly day centre.

You should have a PhD in Computer Science with a focus on multi-objective decision-theoretic planning, evidenced by a track record of top research publications in that area.

The post, which is a full time appointment, is funded by the EU and is available for up to 7 months, from 1 March 2016, has a salary on the University grade 07S scale (currently £30,434 - £37,394 p.a.).  This includes membership of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) and has an annual leave entitlement of 38 days per year (inclusive of all public holidays and university closed periods).

For further details and to apply please visit:

https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=120373  

The closing date for applications is 12 noon on 30 September 2015.

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