25 July: FYI -- PhD funding (Glasgow, UK)
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The University of Glasgow welcomes applications for two funded PhDs in
the area of Human-Robot Interaction.
Application deadline: 31 July (for both positions)
Note that potential students must apply through the University of
Glasgow application system as linked in the FindAPhD adverts – feel
free to contact me directly if you have questions, but only
applications received through the University of Glasgow can be
considered.
Position 1: Human-Robot Interaction for Oilfield Drilling Applications
Eligibility: UK/EU students only
Start date: 1 October 2018
Full details at https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=98605
This project will investigate how such human-robot collaborative tasks
can be carried out, concentrating on the communication aspects: how
the robot communicates its intentions to the human, and how the human
can query and interact with the robot’s plan. The research will be
driven by oilfield drilling applications, which involve control of
complex equipment in a dynamic environment, with an increasing level
of automation. Close coordination between the human crew and the
automation system is often required, as is building trust between the
human and the machine so that the crew understand why the machine acts
the way it does and is confident it has taken all available
information into account. The project is an EPSRC iCASE award with
Schlumberger Gould Research and it is expected that the student will
spend some time working with the company in Cambridge.
The student should have excellent experience, enthusiasm and skills in
the areas of natural language or multimodal interaction and/or
automated planning and reasoning. Applicants must hold a good
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant discipline.
Position 2: Natural Language Generation for Social Robotics
Eligibility: UK/EU students, or international students who can cover remaining fees from other sources
Start date: 1 January 2019 (or earlier)
Full details at https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=98505
In this PhD project, the student will investigate how advanced
techniques drawn from natural language generation (NLG) can be
combined with practical social robotics applications. The success of
the integration will be evaluated through a combination of subjective
user evaluations of the social robots as well as technical evaluations
of the flexibility and robustness of the underlying systems. In
addition to the scientific results of the PhD, an additional goal is
to produce a reusable, open-source component for NLG in the context of
social robotics, to allow other researchers in this area to benefit
from the results of the research.
The PhD student should have excellent experience, enthusiasm and
skills in the areas of natural language processing, computational
linguistics, multimodal interaction, and/or human-robot
interaction. Applicants must hold a good Bachelor’s or Master’s degree
in a relevant discipline.
For more information about both of these positions, please contact Dr
Mary Ellen Foster
MaryEllen.Foster@glasgow.ac.uk
MEF
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Dr Mary Ellen Foster, Lecturer in Computing Science
http://maryellenfoster.uk/
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