<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Please post the following advertisement for a PhD position</font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">The Imagine team at <a href="https://liris.cnrs.fr">LIRIS laboratory</a>, Lyon- France is looking for a PhD student to work on robotic manipulation of the rigid and deformable objects (<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Vl2Ksp0wgagcrjrq7x2HmIibyamCGBt_cKa3t7_ySps/edit">Link to offer</a>). The goal of this project is to geometrically model rigid and deformable objects in order to accomplish an efficient handling through robots.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">The PhD will be supervised by Prof. Liming Chen </font><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(</span><a style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">liming.chen@ec-lyon.fr</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span><font face="arial, sans-serif"> and Shaifali Parashar </font><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(</span><a style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">shaifali.parashar@liris.cnrs.fr</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:justify;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:justify;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Requirements:</span><br></div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-84b637ed-7fff-57ec-a008-4e791b20e664" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><ol style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Masters in computer vision, robotics, machine learning or any field related to the topic</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Strong programming skills in C++ and python</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Fluency in English</span></p></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Project duration: 36  months</span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><font color="#111111"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Tentative start date: September 2022</span></font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How to apply:</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please send your CV, transcripts and 2 reference letters to Liming Chen and Shaifali Parashar with the subject "</span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Modelling Rigid and Deformable Objects for Robotic Manipulation</span><span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);white-space:pre-wrap">".</span></p></font></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div> <br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Best,<div>Shaifali<br></div><div></div><span></span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>