[robocup-worldwide] junior/assistant professorship Human-Robot Interaction (tenure track) [jobs]

[Andreas Nuechter]

The future holder of the professorship must represent the subject
Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) in research and teaching. The
professorship deals with the research of technical aspects of
Assistive Robots (ARs). Applicants should have an excellent
scientific qualification in one or more of the following methods
for co-localized interaction with ARs:

* learning from demonstration
* reinforcement learning
* force/torque control
* dynamics of articulated systems
* compliant and dexterous manipulation
* identification, control, and learning with Gaussian processes
* knowledge representation and task-based grasping
* plan-based robot control, behaviour-based robot control
* robot motion control architectures
* HRI in semi-structured environments (e.g. households)
* context-aware human robot communication with natural language

Experience in the acquisition of third-party funds and in
interdisciplinary research cooperation is expected.

The teaching responsibilities include courses for the study
programs in Computer Science, Aerospace Computer Science, Games
Engineering, Human-Computer Systems, Human-Computer Interaction,
as well as for the other modularized study programs at the
Institute of Computer Science. The University of Würzburg
attaches great importance to the intensive supervision of
students and doctoral candidates and expects a corresponding
commitment from the teaching staff.

The university is currently developing the Center for Artificial
Intelligence in Data Science (CAIDAS, go.uniwue.de/caidas) in
Würzburg. The professorship is part of the center and the future
holder of the position is expected to be strongly involved in
collaborations with other members of the center, especially in
the focus area Human-Centered AI. Distinct experience with
interdisciplinary cooperations, especially in the field of
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science, but
also with other application areas of the center would be an
advantage.


The junior professorship is to be filled for an initial period of
three years. The professorship is to be extended on probation for
a total duration of up to six years. The tenure and appointment
as a university professor of grade W3 for life shall only be
granted if the junior professor has proven his/her worth in
accordance with the university's internal quality assurance
concept. This tenure-track professorship is funded by the
Bund-Länder Programme for the Promotion of Young
Academics (Tenure-Track Programme).


Requirements for employment are a relevant university degree,
pedagogical aptitude, the special qualification for scientific
work, which is usually proven by the quality of a doctorate. (see
art. 14 sentence 1 BayHSchPG). Applicants for tenure-track
positions should be on their way to professorship at an early
stage and have changed university after the doctorate or, if the
doctorate was awarded at Julius-Maximilians-Universität, have
been academically active outside of
Julius-Maximilians-Universität for at least two years.

If employment as a research assistant or research assistant took
place before or after the doctorate, the doctoral and employment
phases together should not exceed six years (cf. art. 14 sentence
3 BayHSchPG).

The University of Würzburg strives to increase the proportion of
women in research and teaching and therefore expressly requests
applications from suitably qualified female scientists.

Severely handicapped applicants will be given preferential
employment if their aptitude is otherwise essentially the same.

Applications must be submitted by e-mail by 4 November
2020 (w1-w3-hri at informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de).  Required are the
usual customary documents (CV, certificates, records,
publications list, list of courses/teaching) as one
pdf-file. Additionally, candidates are required to fill out and
send the registration form found here as separate xslx-file:
go.uniwue.de/registration-form-2020


More information:

https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/midas/2020/Ausschreibungen/2020-09-24_Ausschreibung_HRI_en.pdf

https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/caidas/news/single/news/four-open-professorships-at-caidas/


Very best,
  Andreas Nuechter



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