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Postdoctoral Fellow / Researcher
Explainable end-to-end differentiable perception for self-supervised learning in robotics Full-time
Offer Description
Accurate perception, which enables explainable reasoning about possible outcomes of the robot-environment interaction, is essential for many fundamental capabilities, such as localization, mapping, planning or control. Despite several successful robotic’s solutions, a robust perception architecture that would allow for efficient self-supervised adaptation in an unknown environment remains an open research problem. We claim that the main issues that prevent one from building such architectures are the following: (i) Black-box architectures that neglect the physical embodiment of the robot, such as deep NNs, suffer from poor generalization, weak explainability, catastrophic forgetting and the impossibility of being transferred among different robotics platforms and environments; (ii) Consequent sample-inefficient learning requires a huge number of expensive, domain-specific, human-annotated data that cannot be transferred to other domains; (iii) Resulting complex architectures have a vast number of parameters that have to be adapted/learned jointly to avoid undesirable interference among independently tuned components. We aim to address these issues by designing grey-box, explainable, embodiment-aware, and end-to-end differentiable architectures that enable joint self-supervised adaptation from any successively incoming onboard measurements in a probabilistically consistent way.
Where to apply
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Requirements
Research Field Computer science ” Informatics Education Level PhD or equivalent
Skills/Qualifications
Education, research experience and publication record in areas relevant to the research topic
Specific Requirements
Required documents to be uploaded to the Application form webpage
- CV including a list of
a) Invited presentations to conferences and/or international advanced schools,
b) Organisation of International conferences (membership in the steering and/or programme committee),
c) Prizes, Awards, and Scholarships
d) Projects funded and/or active participation,
e) Examples of participation in industrial innovation, if any. - List of publications
Journal papers first, conference papers second, followed by patents. - Research proposal
Select one of the topics offered
Describe the scope, objectives and foreseen research and training activities, including cooperation with the Associated partner.
Required sections: 1) Excellence, 2) Impact incl. expected outputs of the project, 3) Quality and Efficiency of the Implementation 4), Personal motivation: description of career goals, foreseen advancement in research and professional skills of the Applicant.
Consult your proposal with the respective Mentor. You are encouraged to communicate with the mentor before you submit the application. - PhD diploma (or certificate of defense)
Languages ENGLISH Level Good
Additional Information
Benefits
Gross monthly salary of 83 531 CzK/month*
Family allowance 9044 CZK/month (for applicants with dependent family members)
Travel support for conferences and secondments
Research costs1
*The gross monthly salary CZK is under the standard scheme in the Czech Republic and includes mandatory social and health insurance. Therefore, the gross salary contains an employee contribution to social and health insurance of 11% and it is standardly taxable (15 % rate). Some tax discounts are given to e.g. employees with children.
Example: a single researcher would get 61 813 CzK as net salary
The offered salary is equivalent to the standard MSCA individual postdoc award, and it is highly competitive (double the average salary in Czechia, the typical salary of an Associate professor)
Eligibility criteria
Experience :
* PhD degree at the time of beginning of the contract
Applicants who are close to the defense of their doctoral thesis will also be considered eligible to apply
* maximum of 8 years experience in research , from the date of the award of their PhD degree till the time of the Call opening (July 26, 2025) . Years of experience outside research and career breaks will not count towards the above maximum.
* previous studies compatible with the project they intend to apply with
Mobility : applicants must not have resided or carried out their main activity in the Czech Republic for more than 12 months in the 3 years prior to the Calls’ deadline (career breaks not counted).
Selection process
2-stage
Applicants should select one topic from the List of topics and prepare their own Research proposal.
It is recommended that the applicants contact the Mentor of the relevant topic and consult their proposal in advance.
The Application form is open for modifications until the deadline.
Website for additional job details
https://cyber.fel.cvut.cz
Work Location(s)
Number of offers available 1 Company/Institute Department of Cybernetics Country Czech Republic City Prague 2 Postal Code 120 00 Street Karlovo náměstí 13 Geofield