Research Scientist, SCIS

• Full Time | Contract
• Manager
• Doctorate or equivalent
• Singapore | Closing On 28 Apr 2023

1-year contract

About Us

Singapore Management University is a place where high-level professionalism blends together with a healthy informality. The 'family-like' atmosphere among the SMU community fosters a culture where employees work, plan, organise and play together – building a strong collegiality and morale within the university.

Our commitment to attract and retain talent is ongoing. We offer attractive benefits and welfare, competitive compensation packages, and generous professional development opportunities – all to meet the work-life needs of our staff. No wonder, then, that SMU continues to be given numerous awards and recognition for its human resource excellence.

Job Description

• This position is for School of Computing and Information Systems.
• Responsible for conducting research on The Other Me project. 
• Developing research models and methods for robust situated agent teaming.
• Prototyping the developed methods.
• Evaluating the developed methods on assembling tasks.
• Ensuring these methods are integrated into the overall showcase for the project.

Qualifications

• PhD degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems or closely related disciplines.
• Minimum 4 years of relevant research experience in Reinforcement Learning, Multi-Agent Systems.
• Basic knowledge/Proficiency in programming software/languages such as python will be positively considered/ is required.
• Demonstrated experience and know-how on Reinforcement Learning.
• Published in top tier conferences on multi-agent systems and reinforcement learning.
• Good analytical, technical and problem solving skills.
• Self-motivated individual who can work independently and also collaboratively with team members.