Readership/Principal Lectureship in Robotics and Adaptive Systems
School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science
University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
Closing: 6. December 2021

Applications are invited for a Reader/Principal Lectureship on
emerging topics in Robotics/AI, including, but not limited to:

- Robotics: embodied and/or cognitive robotics, soft robotics,
  adaptive or evolutionary robotic design, robot safety and ethics,
  sensorics and robotics, emotional/social robots, smart homes and
  sensors, sensor fusion, assistive robotics, human-robot interaction,
  agricultural robotics

- Machine learning: reinforcement learning, Deep Methods, statistical
  methods, large scale data modelling/intelligent processing and
  high-performance learning algorithms

- Biological and biophysical computation paradigms, systems biology,
  neural computation

- Complex Systems: collective intelligence, adaptive, autonomous and
  multi-agent/robot systems, collective and swarm intelligence, social
  and market modelling, adaptive, evolutionary and unconventional
  computation #complexsystems

- Mathematical Modelling: statistical modelling, information-theoretic
  methods, compressive sensing, intelligent data visualization,
  multiscale models, optimization; causality

- Emerging Topics in AI: computer algebra and AI, topological methods
  (e.g. persistent homology), algebraic and category-theoretical
  methods in AI; modern topics in games and AI; quantum algorithms for
  AI #computeralgebra

- AI and applications: financial modelling, AI and
  biology/physics/cognitive sciences

- Foundations: fundamental questions of intelligence and computation,
  emergence of life/intelligence, Artificial Life #artificiallife

Closing Date: 6. December 2021

To apply and for further information, please see:

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CKJ638/reader-principal-lecturer-in-robotics-and-adaptive-systems

Volker Steuber
Professor of Computational Neuroscience
Biocomputation Research Group
School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science
University of Hertfordshire
College Lane, Hatfield, AL10 9AB, UK
+44 (0)1707 284350
biocomputation.herts.ac.uk