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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">=======================================================================</div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><br></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><b>PhD Position in Computer Science (Orebro University, Sweden)</b></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><br></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><b>Project Description</b>: The broad focus of the position is on the formal and cognitive </div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">foundations of human-centred AI; the specific research topics relevant to the </div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">position are declarative spatial reasoning, cognitive vision and perception, and </div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">integration of spatial reasoning and spatial learning. Our aim with this new </div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">recruitment is to further advance our research competences at the interface of </div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">Cognition, AI, Interaction, and Design with a particular focus on:</div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Spatial Reasoning</div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Spatial Cognition and AI</div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Visual Perception</div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><br></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">The doctoral candidate will focus on developing the mathematical and computational </div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">foundations to represent, consistently maintain, and reason/learn about dynamic, </div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">relational knowledge about space, motion, and (embodied) multimodal interaction </div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">in everyday contexts. The methods to be developed will emphasise: </div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><br></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1) integration of semantic and quantitative data; </div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2) handling uncertain and incomplete knowledge; </div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>3) integration of spatial reasoning and learning; and </div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4) human-centred explainability of mechanisms for modelling and reasoning about space-time dynamics.</div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><br></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">The project will build on and advance recent research in spatial reasoning, </div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">cognitive vision and perception, and neurosymbolic reasoning. We expect the basic research </div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">outcomes of this project to be applicable in a wide range of computational cognitive systems </div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">contexts including but not limited to autonomous vehicles, cognitive robots, digital media </div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">systems, building architecture design systems. Interest in one or more of these or other </div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">relevant applications will be an added advantage.</div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><br></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">The technical context of the applicable research area </div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">may be consulted here: <a href="https://www.codesign-lab.org/cognitive-vision/">https://www.codesign-lab.org/cognitive-vision/</a></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><br></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><b>Application Deadline</b>: April 28 2023</div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><br></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><b>Formal announcement and application procedure</b>: </div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><a href="https://www.oru.se/english/career/available-positions/job/?jid=20230050">https://www.oru.se/english/career/available-positions/job/?jid=20230050</a></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><b><br></b></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><b>Contact</b>: For more information about the research / project focus </div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">relevant to the position, please contact Prof. Mehul Bhatt, </div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">e-mail: <a href="mailto:mehul.bhatt@oru.se">mehul.bhatt@oru.se</a></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><br></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><b>Funding</b>: The position is offered based on a project </div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">(titled "Counterfactual Commonsense") funded by </div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">the Swedish Research Council ( Vetenskapsrådet ).</div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">The position on offer is fully funded; salary and other related </div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">details may be consulted via the link above.</div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><br></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><br></div><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><div style="font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11px;">=============</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11px;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">Professor - School of Science and Technology - </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">Örebro University, Sweden</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"><div><font face="Calibri"><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><font style="color: purple;"><a href="https://mailfilter.sunet.se/canit/urlproxy.php?_q=aHR0cHM6Ly91cmxkZWZlbnNlLnByb29mcG9pbnQuY29tL3YyL3VybD91PWh0dHAtM0FfX3d3dy5tZWh1bGJoYXR0Lm9yZ18mZD1Ed01HYVEmYz1hTG5TNlA4TmcwelNOaENGMDRPV0ltUV9IZTJMNjlzTldHM1BieGV5aWVFJnI9X2puQ1hvUTVfRTRUVUFycEM5MWVtZyZtPXJWcXB2cXNvakFVWFd2ZzZ0Y2d6UTN0MldEYTZSbTRyV20tQWNSNl9nZU0mcz1lRGpCZ2NsT0t1QVc2OWwyemh0RVUwenZUSGswUlo5eFJVQlBUbkRVME5rJmU9&_s=bWVodWwuYmhhdHRAb3J1LnNl&_c=5332fdfa&_r=b3J1LXNl" style="color: purple;">www.mehulbhatt.org</a> | SE</font>: +</span></font><span style="font-size: 11px;">46 19 303251 / <a href="mailto:mehul.bhatt@oru.se">mehul.bhatt@oru.se</a></span></div><div><br></div></font></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11px;"><b>CoDesign Lab</b> /</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11px;"> Cognition. 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