Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Assistant
- Employer
- HONG KONG SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PARKS CORPORATION
- Location
- Hong Kong, New Territories (HK)
- Salary
- A highly competitive salary commensurate with qualifications and experience will be offered.
- Closing date
- 29 Apr 2021
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- Academic Discipline
- Computer Science, Engineering & Technology, General Engineering, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering
- Job Type
- Research Related, Research Assistants / Officers, Research Support, Other Research Related, Research Manager, Research Associate
- Contract Type
- Fixed Term
- Hours
- Full Time
Centre for Transformative Garment Production
Job Description
1. Develop and evaluate 3D vision techniques for environment understanding, including human body reconstruction and tracking, scene understanding, and video analytics;
2. Develop and evaluate novel interactive interface with AR/VR technologies for human-robot collaborations;
3. Develop and evaluate motion planning algorithms for complex robotic manipulation for textile assembly;
4. Invent and evaluate benchmarks for human-robot collaboration tasks in garment industry;
5. Work in close collaboration with researchers from partner institutions and advise PhD students working on relevant research topics;
6. Integrate the developed algorithms, techniques and hardware to the system prototype, and contribute to human-robot collaboration showcases with our collaborators from the garment industry;
7. Draft annual reports, organize dissemination, communicate with industrial collaborators and present research papers at international conferences, workshops and journals.
Qualifications
(I) Qualifications for Postdoctoral Fellow Positions
Applicants should possess a Ph.D. degree in Engineering disciplines, or equivalent, preferably with project management experience in collaborative robot development and/or human-centered research.
For applicants applying for the robotic research track, they are preferred to have research experience in a) robot control and system development; b) vision and graphics; c) machine learning and deep learning; d) software design and development, with independent research ability and leadership. Good programming skills are highly preferred.
For applicants applying for the human-centered research track, they are preferred to have research experience in a) design of experiments; b) human subject testing; c) data analytics; d) human factor/ergonomics research, with independent research ability and leadership. Skills in functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and electroencephalogram (EEG) are highly preferred.
(II) Qualifications for Research Assistant Positions
Applicants should possess a Bachelor/Master’s degree in Engineering or related disciplines, preferably with project management experience in collaborative robot development and/or human-centered research.
For applicants applying for the robotic research track, they are preferred to have experience in a) robot control and system development; b) vision and graphics; c) machine learning and deep learning; d) software design and development. Good programming skills are highly preferred.
For applicants applying for the human- centered research track, they are preferred to have experience in a) human subject testing; b) data analytics; c) human factor/ergonomics research. Skills in functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and electroencephalogram (EEG) are highly preferred.
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