Seeking a Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher (W23019) (Behavior Learning Research Team)

11 May 2023
Job Information

Organisation/Company

RIKEN(The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research)

Department

Information R&D and Strategy Headquarters

Research Field

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Researcher Profile

Recognised Researcher (R2)

Country

Japan

Application Deadline

7 May 2024 - 14:59 (UTC)

Type of Contract

Temporary

Job Status

Full-time

Hours Per Week

See description

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

Not funded by an EU programme

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

Offer Description

[Laboratory]
Behavior Learning Research Team
The Guardian Robot Project,
RIKEN Information R&D and Strategy Headquarters
(Team Leader: Yutaka Nakamura)

[Research field]
This team aims to develop a robot that can interact with humans as humans do in daily life by measuring human behaviors during the dialogue and constructing a deep generative model of the interaction behaviors.

[Job title and job descriptions]
Job title, available positions:
Postdoctoral Researcher or Research Scientist 1 or few positions for (1)~(3) below.
Postdoctoral Researcher is defined as those with a doctoral degree of less than 5 years.
Research Scientist is defined as those with a doctoral degree of 5 years or more

Job description:
(1): A study on modeling human behavior and its application to robot control
Job description: Participation in the development of data-driven robots in the team. Currently, we are conducting research on measuring human behavior, deep generative models, and robot motion generation. The mission of this position is to apply machine learning techniques to develop a motion generation system operating in a daily environment.
(2): Development of robots that operate in everyday spaces
Participation in the development of robots that operate in everyday environments, including interaction with humans. Working on the development of everyday robots that require the integration of various recognition and control functions. Implementing and developing platforms using various devices and frameworks such as ROS.
(3): Development of an avatar operation system
Participation in the development of a semi-autonomous cybernetic avatar in a Moonshot Project (Avatar symbiotic society). Developing a system that enables the use of avatars without performing complex operations by using autonomous systems based on human behavior knowledge to substitute some operations.

[Work location]
Branch and address:
RIKEN, Keihanna Campus (Kansai Science City)
2-2-2 Hikaridai Seika-cho, Sorakugun, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan,
Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International

RIKEN has implemented a work-from-home system. Advance application and approval based on “Supplementary Regulations for Working from Home (Telework)" will allow employees to work for a specified number of days in their specified place of residence.

[Start of employment]
June 1, 2023 or later

[Keyword]
Robot, Robotics, Machine Learning, Human Robot Interaction, Data Science, Deep Learning, Mechatronics, ROS, control, reinforcement learning, motion planning, imitation learning

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Benefits

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Work Location(s)

Number of offers available

1

Company/Institute

RIKEN(The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research)

Country

Japan

City

Kyoto

Where to apply

Website

https://jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJorDetail?fn=0&ln=1&id=D123050112&ln_jor=1

Contact

City

Kyoto

STATUS: EXPIRED