[PlanetKR] PhD Studentship at Planning and Learning Group, Madrid, Spain

[Angel Garcia Olaya]

A fully-founded, four year PhD position is available at the Planning and 
Learning Group (PLG,
http://www.plg.inf.uc3m.es/) at the University Carlos III of Madrid.

The position is linked to the project "Human-Aware Planning and 
Execution (HAPE)"
(PID2021-127647NB-C21) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and 
Innovation
(https://www.aei.gob.es/en/announcements/announcements-finder/proyectos-generacion-conocimiento-2021) 


The general objective of the project is to design, develop and evaluate 
new methods, algorithms and
tools that support the use and application of Automated Planning and 
Machine Learning to create
intelligent systems in real scenarios where humans play a main role. 
Human-Aware planning
technologies will be applied to build use cases in the context of Social 
Assistive Robotics with a
Pepper robot.

We seek motivated candidates with a strong background in computer 
science, excellent programming
skills, a great interest in Artificial Intelligence, and (preferably) 
some previous experience in
Automated Planning, Machine Learning and/or Robotics.

Candidates have to be in a position that allows them to be enrolled in a 
doctoral program for next
course (last year master's student).

The application dates are from January 12th to January 26th. Please see
https://www.aei.gob.es/en/announcements/announcements-finder/ayudas-contratos-predoctorales-formacion-doctoresas-2022 

for more information and instructions on how to apply.

Informal inquiries can be sent to rfuentet at inf.uc3m.es.

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Angel Garcia Olaya
Profesor Titular / Associate Professor
Director del Máster en Tecnologías del Sector Financiero: Fintech / Director of the Fintech Master Degree
Departamento de Informatica / Computer Science and Engineering Department
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Avda. de la Universidad, 30
28911 Leganes, Madrid, España / Spain
http://www.plg.inf.uc3m.es/~agolaya/
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4531-5896