[robocup-worldwide] [jobs] PhD fellowship in Social Robotics for Children with NDDs

[Salvatore Anzalone]

# PhD fellowship in Social Robotics for Children with Neurodevelopmental
Disorders
CHArt Laboratory from University Paris 8 is seeking for a highly motivated
PhD candidate to contribute to the joint French-Swiss project iReCHeCk.

## Frame
iReCHeck is a French-Swiss project founded by ANR and FNS that involves the
CHArt Laboratory, from Paris 8 University, the Children and Adolescents
Psychiatry Service, from Pitié-Salpêtrière Medical Hospital and the CHILI
Laboratory, from EPFL. Built upon the achievements of the Co-Writer
Project, iReCheck aims at supporting children with severe handwriting
difficulties (dysgraphia) by developing engaging training activities with a
robotic co-learner.

## Context
The PhD candidate will be member of the Human and Artificial Cognitions
Laboratory, an interdisciplinary laboratory that federates the Paris 8
University, the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and the Paris-Est Créteil
University. The aim of CHArt is bringing together researchers from
cognitive sciences, psychology, mathematics and computer science in the
study of natural and artificial cognitive systems.
While working in a tight collaboration with the iReCheck partners, the
candidate will be part of the vibrant and passionate community of Paris 8
University: founded as the so-called “Experimental University Center of
Vincennes”, issued from the historical University of Paris, Paris 8
University is pursuing excellence in humanities, human sciences, arts and
social sciences since 1969. The main candidate’s working place will be the
Campus Condorcet, located in the north suburbs of Paris.

## Tasks
The PhD candidate will work on the development and the deployment of
engaging training activities based on the use of a social robot in
learning-by-teaching scenarios. The development of such proactive and
believable robotic partner will be achieved in the context of a close
collaboration with CHILI Lab.
The PhD candidate will foster advances on the characterization of
children’s behaviors, proposing in particular metrics, models, techniques
and algorithms able to capture and to describe the behaviors of pupils in
physiological terms as well as in terms of their motor and social
abilities.
The candidate will be called for working in a tight collaboration with the
psychiatrists, the psychologists, the psychomotor therapists and the other
practitioners from Pitié-Salpêtrière Medical Hospital, having the
opportunity of deploying the proposed system in real scenarios involving
children with neurodevelopmental deficits.

## Job requirements
* A master degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or a related field;
* Knowledge and research experience in one or more of the following topics:
Robotics, Planning, Computer Vision, Machine Learning;
* Past experiences in Statistics, Cognitive Sciences, Social Signal
Processing and, more in general, computational analysis of human behaviors,
are a plus;
* Interest in research in the area of robot-assisted therapy/education for
children with special needs;
* Fluent written and verbal communication skills in English.

## Contract
* Fixed-term, doctoral contract 3 years;
* Starting day: latest before 1 October 2020;
* Monthly Gross salary: 1,769 euro.

## Applications
Applications will be considered until the position is filled. However, you
are encouraged to apply early as we shall start processing the applications
as and when they are received.

Applications, written in English, should be submitted online and should
include:
* Curriculum Vitae (including your contact address, work experience,
publications);
* Cover letter indicating your research interests and your motivation;
* Contact information for at least 2 referees.

Applications should be sent to: Salvatore Anzalone (sanzalone at univ-paris8.fr
).

### More info...
iReCHeck Project: https://irecheck.github.io/
CHArt Laboratory, Paris 8 University: http://www.cognition-usages.org/
Children and Adolescents Psychiatry Service, Pitié-Salpêtrière Medical
Hospital: http://speapsl.aphp.fr/
CHILI Laboratory, EPFL: http://chili.epfl.ch/
Paris 8 University: https://www.univ-paris8.fr/
Doctoral school on Cognition, Language and Interaction:
https://cli.univ-paris8.fr/
Campus Condorcet: https://www.campus-condorcet.fr/


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Salvatore Maria Anzalone, Ph.D.
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* Associate Professor - Maître de Conférences
* CHArt Laboratory - EA 4004
* Technologies, Handicaps, Interfaces and Multimodalities
* Paris 8 University, 93526 Saint Denis, France
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