Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher (W20300)(Robotics for Infrastructure Management Team)

[Laboratory]
Robotics for Infrastructure Management Team
Goal-Oriented Technology Research Group
RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project
(Laboratory head:Takayuki Okatani)

[Research field]
The Center for Advanced Intelligence Project has been launched with subsidy from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology-Japan for “Advanced Integrated Intelligence Platform Project (AIP) -Artificial Intelligence/ Big Data/ Internet of Things/ Cybersecurity-".
The Center conducts fundamental theoretical research and develops an innovative technology, with aiming to advance science and contribute to society or humanity.
This Center is a project with a maximum of 10 years from FY 2016.

For more information, please refer to the Job posting URL
Robotics for Infrastructure Management Team | RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project

[Job title and job descriptions]
Job title, available positions:
Opening for Postdoctoral Researcher, one position

Postdoctoral Researcher: Carries out research and other work in accordance with team research themes under the direction of supervisors. Basically, defined as those with a doctoral degree of 5 years or less.

Job description:
Job purpose: Contribute to the achievement of the goals of the Robotics for Infrastructure Management Team focusing on the project externally funded by Moonshot Research and Development Program, "Innovation in Construction of Infrastructure with Cooperative AI and Multi-Robots Adapting to Various Environments (PM: Keiji Nagatani)." In the project, the team aims at developing an AI system for assessing and understanding various artificial or natural environments, including infrastructure structures, natural disaster sites etc. The system can comprehensively understand the environment, i.e., the state of various structures, media, etc., based on the various sensor inputs provided by robots, etc. Thereby, it supports human decision making and/or provides useful information for autonomous robots to perform various tasks in such environments.
Duties: Perform research for achieving the team goal, such as the development of deep-learning-based methods and systems for the above AI system.

[Work location]
Branch and address:
RIKEN on Aobayama campus of Tohoku Univeristy
(Aramaki Aza Aoba, Aoba-ku,Sendai, Miyagi 980-8579)

[Start of employment]
June 1st, 2021 or later (Negotiable)

[Research field]
Engineering、Mathematical_Science、Computational_Science、Computer_Science、Interdisciplinary

[Keyword]
Deep learning,Computer vision,Vision and language,Natural language processing