Student Position in Reinforcement Learning at Tampere University, Finland

We are seeking a talented PhD student for a four year fully funded position
at Tampere University, Finland
with strong interest in Reinforcement Learning and
* Robot Learning
* Reinforcement Learning under Partial Observability
The main task of the PhD student will be to develop new state-of-the-art
reinforcement learning (RL) methods that allow agents, or, robots to operate
in unstructured partially observable real world environments found in
household robotics, agile manufacturing, work sites of mobile heavy
machines, elderly care, handling dangerous materials, or even disaster
scenarios such as Fukujima.
The research focus will be on developing reinforcement learning method
techniques related to partial observability, memory representations,
exploration, Bayesian reinforcement learning, and Monte Carlo tree search.
The exact direction of the research is chosen depending on your experience
and interests.
Please relate clearly to (some of) these research topics in your Letter of
Motivation.
Outstanding students and researchers from the areas of Reinforcement
Learning and related areas including Machine Learning, Control Engineering,
Computer Vision, Robotics, Statistics & Optimization, or Mathematics &
Physics are welcome to apply. The candidate is expected to conduct
independent research and at the same time contribute to the topics listed
above. Successful candidates can furthermore be given the opportunity to
work with undergraduate, M.Sc. and PhD students.

The research group collaborates at Tampere University with research groups
in computer vision, robotics, mobile heavy machines, manufacturing, finance,
physics, and human-robot interaction, and, internationally with research
groups in reinforcement learning, imitation learning, robot learning,
multi-agent systems, and robot motion planning. Moreover, two of the PhD
students in the research group are located at the Intelligent Autonomous
Systems institute at TU Darmstadt, Germany so there will be ample
opportunities for international collaboration.

WE OFFER
The position will be filled for a fixed-term period of maximum four (4)
years. The starting date is 2 March 2020 or as mutually agreed.

The salary will be based on both the job requirements and the employee’s
personal performance in accordance with the salary system of Finnish
universities. According to the criteria applied to teaching and research
staff, the position of a Doctoral Researcher is placed on level 2—4 of the
job requirements scale. A typical starting salary for Doctoral Researchers
is approximately 2300 EUR/month. The salary increases with experience.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits, such as occupational health care,
flexible working hours, excellent sports facilities on campus and several
restaurants and cafés on campus with staff discounts.
HOW TO APPLY

Please submit your application through our online recruitment system using
this link:
https://tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_A&jid=312

The closing date for applications is 26.1.2020 (23:59 EEST (GMT+3)).

Please write your application and all the accompanying documentation in
English and attach them in PDF format.
Please attach only the following documents to your application:
* A letter of motivation and description of your research interests (max. 1
page)
* Curriculum vitae according to the TENK template (including the contact
details of two referees).
* A list of publications (if any) as a part of the curriculum vitae
* PDF copy of your MSc and BSc degree certificates, including transcripts of
all university records and their English translations (Finnish and Swedish
certificates are also accepted)
For further information, please contact:

Assistant Professor, Research Group Leader, Joni Pajarinen,
joni.pajarinen@tuni