Level: Master degree
Working hours: 38 hours per week
Contract: 4 years
Salary: €2042 to €2612 per month gross
Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
The Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) is known worldwide for its high academic quality and the social relevance of its research programmes. The faculty’s excellent facilities accentuate its international position in teaching and research. The faculty offers an interdisciplinary setting for its 500 employees, 350 PhD students and 1700 undergraduates. Together they work on a broad range of technical innovations in the fields of sustainable energy, telecommunications, microelectronics, embedded systems, computer and software engineering, interactive multimedia and applied mathematics. EEMCS: Your Connection to the Future.
The Department of Mediamatics comprises the media-oriented computer science groups in the Faculty of EEMCS and is responsible for a major part of the Bachelor and Master programmes in Computer Science. The department’s mission is to be internationally recognised for its excellent researchers in the field of data processing and interpretation using model- and knowledge-based algorithms. The department aims thus to enable man and machine, in close cooperation with their intelligent environment, to deal with ever increasing information flows.
The Man-Machine Interaction section aims to design and build intelligent support systems. Our research focuses on the combination of the research disciplines (1) Artificial Intelligence (AI), including the themes of agent reasoning and programming, and computational intelligence, and (2) Cognitive Engineering (CE), including the research themes of user-centred design and human perception. Application areas include negotiation, incident management, lifestyle experience and eHealth.
Job description
Vehicles that can drive themselves through traffic are becoming reality, as is shown by the Google Car that is based on the technology developed for the DARPA Urban Challenge. In this project intelligent cognitive agents are to be constructed that model the human driver, and potentially have the knowledge to control the vehicle with or without human interaction. Intelligent agents may be used to analyze the behavior of a range of different human driver types and their impact on traffic throughput and safety in simulations. Applications of such intelligent agents on board of vehicles are increasing the situation-awareness of drivers, and possibly taking over some of the driving tasks, using the data which the agents themselves collect, possibly integrated with the data from other vehicles and from an intelligent road infrastructure. An early simulation environment is already available that provides basic functionality for the agent to control the vehicle. Your job is the design of cognitive agents that are able to model and support human drivers, developing the simulation environment and analyzing the agents in this environment. You will be part of a larger team working on this project. Supervision is provided by Prof. dr. C.M. Jonker and dr. K.V. Hindriks.
Requirements
We are looking for excellent candidates that have received an MSc degree in Artificial Intelligence or Computing Science. Candidates that have experience with agent-based simulation in general or more specifically in the area of traffic simulation, and/or have experience with cognitive agents are especially invited to apply to this position.
Conditions of employment
TU Delft offers an attractive benefits package, including a flexible work week, free high-speed Internet access from home, and the option of assembling a customised compensation and benefits package (the 'IKA'). Salary and benefits are in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities.
Information and application
For more information about this position, please contact Dr. K.V. Hindriks, phone: +31 (0)15-2782523, e-mail: k.v.hindriks@tudelft.nl.
For general application information you are welcome to contact Mrs. J. Eddini, peno-ewi@tudelft.nl. To apply, please e-mail a detailed CV, including contact details of references, course lists with grades, and a letter of application in which you explain both your interest and the relevance of your skills and experience in the context of this research project. Please e-mail your application materials by 15 January 2012 to Mrs. J. Eddini, peno-ewi@tudelft.nl, or send by post to Mrs. J. Eddini, Mekelweg 4, 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands.
Also see: http://mmi.tudelft.nl for more information.
When applying for this position, make sure to mention vacancy number EWI2011-03.
Enquiries from agencies are not appreciated.
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