[Job-offers-cs] Postdoc in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

[Pekka Orponen]

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Subject: [DMANET] Postdoc in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:09:36 +0000
From: Peter Jonsson <peter.jonsson at liu.se>
To: dmanet at zpr.uni-koeln.de <dmanet at zpr.uni-koeln.de>


Linköping University (Sweden) advertises up to two (2) positions as 
Postdoc in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (formally based 
at the Department of Computer and Information Science).

The postdoc(s) will join a research project co-directed by Guest WASP 
Professor Hector Geffner. The project focuses on a fundamental research 
problem that is at the heart of the current split in AI between data 
based learners and model-based reasoners: the problem of learning 
symbolic first-order representations from raw perceptions. Data-based 
learners, like those based on deep learning, are popular because there 
is plenty of data available. However, they produce black boxes that lack 
the flexibility, transparency, and guarantees of model-based systems. 
Building models by hand, on the other hand, is just too hard and 
time-consuming for most applications. By showing how to learn 
meaningful, symbolic models from raw perceptions, the research is aimed 
at integrating the benefits of data-based learners and model-based 
solvers in the context of planning, where representations play a key 
role in expressing, communicating, achieving, and recognizing goals.

For further information visit

https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies?rmpage=job&rmjob=12070&rmlang=UK