Internship and PhD position in machine learning for multimodal engagement analysis

in human-robot interactions (HRI)

Telecom ParisTech [1],  LTCI lab [2]

Duration:  6-month internship to be continued as 3-year PhD contract
Start: Any date from February 1st, 2018

Salary: according to background and experience

*Position description*

The internship/PhD project will take part in a collaboration between Softbank Robotics and Télécom ParisTech on the topic of engagement analysis in interactions of humans with Softbank?s robots.

The role of the intern/PhD student will consist in developing robust machine learning systems able to effectively take advantage of the multimodal signals acquired by the robot?s sensors during its interaction with a human. The work will include:

- the design of appropriate elicitation protocols and multimodal data acquisition procedures ;

- the development of multimodal feature learning and dynamic classification procedures capable of handling noisy observations with missing values, especially exploiting deep learning techniques ;

- the evaluation of the system in realistic scenarios involving end-users.

The PhD project will be hosted at Telecom ParisTech  department of images, data and signals of [3], jointly by the social computing [4] and the audio data analysis and signal processing [5] teams.

* Candidate profile*

As a minimum requirement, the successful candidate will have:

?    A Master?s degree (possibly to be granted in 2018) in one of the following areas: computer science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, signal processing, affective computing, applied mathematics

?    Excellent programming skills (preferably in Python)

?    Good command of English

The ideal candidate will also (optionally) have:

?    Knowledge in deep learning techniques

-- More about the position

?    Place of work: Paris, France

?    For more information about Télécom ParisTech see [1]

-- How to apply

Applications are to be sent to Chloé Clavel [6], Giovanna Varni [7] and Slim Essid [8] by email (using <firstname.lastname>@telecom-paristech.fr)

The application should be formatted as a single pdf file and should include:

?    A complete and detailed curriculum vitae

?    A letter of motivation

?    Academic records of the last two years

?    The names and addresses of two referees

[1] http://www.tsi.telecom-paristech.fr

[2] https://www.ltci.telecom-paristech.fr/?lang=en

[3] http://www.tsi.telecom-paristech.fr/en/

[4]https://www.tsi.telecom-paristech.fr/recherche/themes-de-recherche/analyse-automatique-des-donnees-sociales-social-computing/

[5] http://www.tsi.telecom-paristech.fr/aao/en/

[6] https://clavel.wp.mines-telecom.fr/

[7] http://sites.google.com/site/gvarnisite/

[8] http://www.telecom-paristech.fr/~essid