School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering is one of the founding Schools of the Nanyang Technological University. Built on a culture of excellence, the School is renowned for its high academic standards and research. With over 3,000 undergraduates students and 1,000 graduate students it is one of the largest EEE schools in the world and ranks 10th in the field of Electrical & Electronic Engineering in the 2024 QS World University Rankings by Subjects.

Today, the School has become one of the world's largest engineering schools that nurtures competent engineers and researchers. Each year, the School graduates over a thousand students who are ready to take on great ambitions and challenges.

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We are looking for a talented and responsible researcher to support the scientific research and the engineering practice in perception and embodied intelligence.

Key Responsibilities:

The Research Associate will work on a project to conduct research on development of mobile and bimanual robotic manipulation system used in household service and manufacturing. The roles of this position include:

Develop robotic foundation models for general mobile manipulation based on vision-language-action models
Develop efficient manipulation learning framework from human instructional videos and reduce the data demand for policy learning
Develop a mobile bimanual manipulation system to complete diverse tasks in household environment and in manufacturing deployment scenarios

Job Requirement

Master in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Science or related field
1-year research experience in related area
Expertise in robotic manipulation systems
Knowledge in robotic foundation models
Publication track record is an advantage
Proficiency in basics of programming languages such as ROS and Python
Excellent communication skills, written and verbal - able to communicate complex concepts clearly and accurately

We regret to inform you that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Research Associate (Electrical and Electronic Engineering/ Computer Science)