PhD Position at the University of Florence, Italy

Deadline: Aug. 8, 2022, 11 p.m.
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The Media Integration and Communication Center at the University of Florence, Italy, has a fully-funded Ph.D. position available in the National Ph.D. Program in Artificial Intelligence. The topic of the Ph.D. Fellowship is “Deep Reinforcement Learning for Embodied AI in Complex 3D Navigation Environments". In this three-year Ph.D. research project, we will look at fundamental issues related to embodied AI systems in open-world navigation scenarios. Techniques that will be applied include, but are not limited to, Inverse and Offline Reinforcement Learning, Online and Offline Continual Learning, Few-shot Imitation Learning, and Open Set Visual Recognition. Applications to be considered are diverse and include open-world navigation, natural language goal specification, visual anomaly, and novelty detection, video game AI, and automated video game playtesting and validation.

The successful candidate will join in national and international collaborations with academic and industrial partners. Excellent communication skills in English are mandatory.

The application deadline is August 8, 2022. Interested candidates should contact [email protected] for more information.

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