[PlanetKR] Robotics PhD Scholarships in The Magic Lab at UTS

[Mary-Anne Williams]

PhD Scholarships - The Magic Lab

The Magic Lab <http://themagiclab.org/> seeks to appoint *five full-time
PhD Students* and two Postdoctoral Fellows in the following areas:
Human-Robot Interaction, Social Robotics, Knowledge Representation, Machine
Learning for Robots, Practical Foundations of Decision Making under Risk
and Uncertainty.

The Magic Lab <http://themagiclab.org/> at the University of Technology
Sydney <http://www.uts.edu.au/> (UTS) is Australia's leading social
robotics research lab. It is home to leading researchers in robotics,
human-robot interaction, artificial intelligence, data analytics, cognitive
science and computational law. Steve Wozniak, Co-Founder of Apple is a
Distinguished Professor in the research team. The Magic Lab researchers
have an extensive research network including Stanford University, Harvard
University, Lund University, Leeds University, Patras University, and CNRS
in France.
Value and duration

Up to five (5) Recipients will be selected for the Scholarship.

Successful candidates will be awarded a scholarship valued at the Australian
Postgraduate Award (APA)
<https://www.education.gov.au/australian-postgraduate-awards>rate
<https://www.education.gov.au/australian-postgraduate-awards> + $5,000 top
up scholarship per annum over 3 years. Students can apply for an additional
6 months extension dependent upon satisfactory progress.
Who is eligible?

In order to be eligible for the Scholarship, candidates must be/have:

   - completed a Bachelor Degree with First Class Honours, 4 Year
   undergraduate degree with a research component or Master's by Research, or
   be regarded by the University as having an equivalent level of attainment;
   - undertake a PhD at UTS in the year of the scholarship; and
   - enrolled as a full-time student

Selection process

The recipient will demonstrate:

   - A strong desire to advance the field of social robotics and develop
   innovative robot behaviors
   - A passion for designing and building intelligent autonomous systems
   - An insatiable curiosity for human-robot interaction
   - A keen interest in social robots as a disruptive innovation in
   business and society
   - A willingness to contribute to and collaborate with The Magic Lab
   <http://themagiclab.org/> research team.

How to apply

Please send your expression of interest (EOI) along with your academic CV
and certified transcript to PhD at themagiclab.org.
Application period

Opening date: 23 February 2016
Closing date: 08 April 2016
For further information contact*Professor Mary-Anne Williams, Founder and
Director of * research team The Magic Lab <http://themagiclab.org/>
Email: Mary-Anne.Williams at uts.edu.au


*Professor Mary-Anne Williams*

*Director, Disruptive Innovation,* University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
Founder and Director, Innovation and Enterprise Research Lab
<http://themagiclab.org/>, QCIS, UTS
Faculty Fellow,  CodeX, Stanford University
The VOICE Project <http://www.voice-project.eu> - building a global
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