[I-RIM ML] [jobs] postdoctoral researcher at the humanoid sensing and perception group, Italian Institute of Technology

[Lorenzo Natale]

This is to advertise a postdoctoral researcher position to join the Humanoid Sensing and Perception (https://hsp.iit.it/)  group at the Italian Institute of Technology.

This position is funded by the Future of AI Research (FAIR) project, funded by the European Union within the NextGenerationEU program.

You will be working in a multicultural and multi-disciplinary group, where robotics, computer vision and machine learning experts collaborate to carry out common research. The Humanoid Sensing and Perception Research Line (https://hsp.iit.it/) is coordinated by Lorenzo Natale who is an expert in humanoid robotics, machine learning, robot vision and tactile perception.

You will carry out research in the context of the FAIR project funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research as part of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR). The FAIR partnership constitutes a research network of 14 universities, 4 research bodies and 7 companies spread across Italy. Organized according to the "Hub & Spoke" model, each of 10 Spokes addresses a critical aspect of future AI development as reliability, sustainability, adaptivity. IIT coordinates Spoke 10 (Sustainable and Bio-Socio-Cognitive AI). 

Within this project, you will join the Humanoid Sensing and Perception research group, with the goal of studying how to deploy latest large vision-language models into autonomous agents. Large vision-language models today exhibit impressive reasoning capabilities leveraging on Internet data for their training. In this project we seek to investigate how to ground semantic knowledge from these models into the physical world, identifying missing information and complement it with the robot's experience to enable action in open scenarios. We will target the application scenarios involving multi-modal object manipulation with anthropomorphic hands.

Within the team, your main responsibilities will be:
* Study, devise and implement multi-modal models for object perception and control of object manipulation;
* Research relevant topics; propose, implement and benchmark effective solutions on real robotic platforms;
* Coordination and collaboration with the activities of other team members in order to meet deliverables and disseminate the research.

Full text to the call and application instructions: https://iit.taleo.net/careersection/ex/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=2300002K

Application deadline: April 30th. 

Feel free to contact me if you need additional information.

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Lorenzo Natale, PhD
Senior Researcher
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Center for Robotics and Intelligent Systems
via S. Quirico 19D, 16163 Genova
mail: lorenzo.natale at iit.it
Ph: +39 010 289 8232
http://lornat75.github.io 
Ellis Genoa unit - https://ellisgenoa.eu