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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:#191919">Two Fully funded PhD positions in the area of Neurorobotics are available at the University of South Florida in Tampa starting Spring or Fall 2018.
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:#191919">Research Topic<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">“Neurorobotics: Multi-Scale Spatial Cognition”</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:#191919"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:#191919">Research Description:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:#191919">The BioRobotics Lab at the Computer Science and Engineering Department (CSE) in the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa is looking for two new PhD students in the area of neurorobotics, where
</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica;color:#1A1A1A;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">neurorobotics</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1A1A1A"> is the research area where neuroscience and robotics intersect. Neurorobotics provides
a testbed for evaluating brain-inspired algorithms while proposing new computational models to control autonomous robotics systems.
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:#191919">The specific neurorobotics area is in
</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Spatial Cognition, an increasingly important research area relating memory and navigation in animals. In this particular research project we seek to elucidate the basic
principles of multi-scale memory and spatial navigation based on Hippocampus studies. These studies will serve as basis for the development of new algorithms for multi-scale spatial navigation, mimicking the neural computations of the brain. The simulations
will then be tested on physical autonomous mobile robots navigating in challenging complex environments.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:#191919">Required:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:#191919">- A Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or related field;
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:#191919">- Strong background in software programming, particularly with C++ and Java;
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:#191919">- Excellent English proficiency;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:#191919">- Excellent writing and communication skills;
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:#191919">Preferred:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:#191919">- Master’s degree; <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:#191919">- Experience with computational modeling of the brain,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:#191919">- Hands-on experience with programming of autonomous robots;
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#131313">Please send the following documents to aweitzenfeld@usf.edu:</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#131313">- One page cover letter describing your research interests;</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#131313">- Transcripts;</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri">To apply to the CSE PhD program see the following link:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri">Note: The CSE Department at USF encourages minority students and under-represented groups to apply to the PhD program additionally offering several funded positions each year.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Times">
</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri">In addition to Robotics, the CSE Department welcomes and regularly funds research positions in other areas, including Image Processing, Computer Vision, Data Visualization, Hardware, Software and Networks Security,
Programming Languages, Distributed Systems, Brain Computer Interfaces, Computer Graphics, Databases, Big Data, and Artificial Intelligence.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:#131313">About the CSE Dept:</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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