[I-RIM ML] PhD position in Artificial Intelligence Planning and Scheduling for robotic applications

[Marco Roveri]

Dear colleagues and students,

At the Information Engineering and Computer Science department of the
University of Trento we are looking for enthusiastic PhD students
interested in solving realistic-size and practical planning, scheduling and
acting problems in the hot topics of Industry 5.0 and Hospital of the
Future.

Could you please forward the vacancy description below to anyone that comes
to mind? Or please let me know if you'd like to know a bit more.

Thanks in advance,

Marco Roveri
Email: marco.roveri at unitn.it

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PhD positions in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the
Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science of University of
Trento in challenging projects to develop new algorithms for planning,
scheduling and acting under uncertainty, and making these operate in
industrial (e.g. manufacturing, intra-logistics) and civil (e.g. hospital,
pharmaceutical) relevant environments.

Are you interested in developing new algorithms, extending state-of-the-art
AI techniques, and prepared to take-on real-life problems involving
advanced automation and robotic applications collaborating with humans?

Join us in a team that considers the operational planning, scheduling and
actuation (motion planning) of advanced robotic platforms (AGV, UAV, ...)
to orchestrate their operations in collaborating with human to achieve
complex business relevant objectives like e.g. reduce time-span, optimize
resource consumption, quickly adapt to contingencies (e.g. product and/or
platform faults, changes in objectives, changes in human operations). As
the capabilities (e.g. dexterity) of robotic agents grows and their
adoption in solving complex tasks collaborating with humans increases
together with an increase in the complexity of the objectives, the problems
of finding feasible plans to orchestrate the different agents, and of
dynamically adapt and react to run-time contingencies to fulfill the high
level objectives are becoming more and more difficult.

The main tasks for the PhD student are to work on algorithms and artificial
intelligence techniques from the fields of constraint programming,
mathematical optimization, path planning, evolutionary algorithms and/or
reinforcement learning i) to solve such planning, scheduling, actuation
(motion planning) and reactive adaptation problems; ii) to deepen our
understanding of these techniques; iii) and to show how they can be
successfully combined to solve problems of industrial and civil relevance.
Moreover, the PhD student will be allowed to experiment the developed
techniques and algorithms in realistic-size facilities (e.g. Robotic Labs
at the University, and industrial facilities joint with the University of
Trento) equipped with state-of-the-art robotic and automation platforms.

The call is now open (
https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/call-for-application). Interested
candidates shall contact Prof. Marco Roveri marco.roveri at unitn.it to ask
for additional information and to arrange for a preliminary interview.

The Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science at
University of Trento
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The Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science - DISI (
https://www.disi.unitn.it) primarily covers the topics of information
technology and engineering and ranked first among computer science
departments in Italy and 78th worldwide according to the latest U.S. News
Best Global Universities ranking.

The University of Trento is one of the best universities in Italy, and the
region of Trentino Alto Adige is a top location in Europe in terms of
quality of life and efficiency of services.


Requirements
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Applications for the PhD Program in Information and Communication
Technology are accepted from applicants who hold:

- an Italian “Laurea magistrale” instituted in conformity with Italian
Ministerial Decree 270/2004, or

- a university degree of the previous regulations (Italian "Laurea
specialistica " or "Diploma di Laurea"), or

- an equivalent degree obtained abroad (Master's degree) and   recognized
as equivalent to the Italian "Laurea magistrale" by the   Admissions
Committee for the sole purposes of admission to the   Doctoral programme,
also within the framework of mobility and   cooperation inter-university
agreements.

Applications are also accepted from students who expect to complete their
degree before the starting of the PhD grant (see the complete list of
requirements https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/call-for-application
 ).


Application
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The application must be completed and submitted by 15/04 16.00 CEST,
solely by the online system:

 - https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/call-for-application
 - Deadline  15/04 16.00 CEST

Read carefully the announcement, the requirements and to include all
the required documents. An application without the required
information will be discarded without evaluation.

Scholarship
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The PhD position will be covered by scholarships.  Currently the annual
gross amount of the doctoral scholarship is approximately €16.290,00. The
scholarship net amount may change, depending on the country of residence
and on country-specific taxation agreements.

Students who have been awarded a PhD scholarship are entitled to get a 50%
increase of their scholarship when staying abroad for reasons related to
their doctoral research and studies.

Each student is provided with a budget which can be used for educational
and research purposes.

First year students have the priority for getting accommodation at student
residences.

--
Marco Roveri, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (RTD-b)
Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science
University of Trento
Via Sommarive 9 - 38123 Povo - Trento (Italy)
E-mail: marco.roveri at unitn.it
Office: +39 0461285259
Cell:  +39 3666023955
Web: https://sites.google.com/view/marco-roveri/home
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