Psychology Discipline and Robotics Institute at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia are offering a fully funded PhD position for interdisciplinary research into using computational models to improve human-robot collaboration.

Project description

Collaboration between humans and robots is rapidly increasing, creating a need to understand how emerging intelligent capabilities shape human moral cognition, the emergence of new norms, and the distribution of responsibility within human-robot teams, and how these changes in turn shape human judgement and decision making.

Successful candidate will have access to cutting edge robotics facilities and collaborate with robotics engineers to conduct research.

This will entail:

developing measurement tools, experimental designs, and innovative psychological tasks;
reviewing literature in the field of moral psychology, cognitive science, human-robot interaction, artificial intelligence, robotics, decision science, and other relevant fields;
planning, administering, and running studies with human participants;
applying a variety of quantitative data analysis approaches;
working in multidisciplinary teams;
communicating research to a variety of stakeholders and the academic community;
preparing manuscripts for publication in leading multidisciplinary and psychological science journals.

Successful candidate will gain a broad set of interdisciplinary skills in an area poised to have a transformative societal impact. This experience will position candidates as contributors in shaping the future of artificial intelligence technology in an increasingly automated world.

The project will be supervised by Dr Milan Andrejevic, a Lecturer in Psychology, and Dikai Liu, a Distinguished Professor in Robotics from the University of Technology Sydney.

Candidate requirements:

Honours or Masters degree in: Psychology, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and a good grasp of statistics OR other related and relevant discipline and a strong interest in psychological science;
Experience with quantitative methods and experimental psychology approaches;
Excellent academic writing skills;
Experience with, and/or willingness to learn coding and using statistical software (R, Matlab, Python, and/or alike);
Willingness to learn mathematical / computational models of human cognition;
Demonstrated work ethic.

Also desirable:

A record of contributing to academic publications;

If you would like to apply for this project, please send your CV and Research Proposal to Milan Andrejevic (Milan.Andrejevic@uts.edu.au) and Dikai Liu (dikai.liu@uts.edu.au).

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PhD position description

University of Technology Sydney

Psychology Discipline

Robotics Institute

Dr. Milan Andrejevic

Dist. Prof. Dikai Liu

Dr. Milan Andrejević (he/him)

Lecturer

Psychology | Graduate School of Health

University of Technology Sydney

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