Thursday, August 3, 2023

PhD position: Doctoral student in Computer Science with focus on Robotics and Human-Robot Interaction

   
The Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, Lund University, is currently accepting applications for a fully funded PhD position (4 years full-time), starting at the earliest convenience.

It is seeking a candidate with a keen interest in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, focusing specifically on Human-Robot Interaction.

The Robotics and Semantic Systems (RSS) is a growing division with collaborating groups with research and teaching in AI, Machine Learning, Robotics and Robotic Learning, Human-Robot Interaction, and Natural Language Processing. Together with the Dept. of Automatic Control, the division operates RobotLab LTH (https://robotics.lth.se), which grants access to many types of robots.

The focus of the PhD project will be human-robot collaboration, specifically investigating robot-to-human handover tasks, e.g. for surgical instruments. A detailed description of the project can be found at https://cs.lth.se/topp-elinanna/phd-project/. The project is funded by WASP and connected to the WASP Research Arena “Robotics”, providing ample opportunity for data collection and result demonstrations in addition to our own facilities at Lund University.