--------------------------- Apologies for multiple emails --------------------------- Dear colleagues, We are looking for exceptional and highly motivated candidates for a full-time fixed-term research position to join the PRISCA lab at the University of Naples Federico II in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies. The researcher will work on the COllaborative HiErarchical Robotic ExplaNaTions (COHERENT) that is a CHIST-ERA <https://www.chistera.eu/sites/www.chistera.eu/files/CHIST-ERA%20Call%202019%20-%20XAI%20Topic%20-%20COHERENT%202022.pdf> project supported by the European Union in collaboration between the University of Naples Federico II (Italy), the Ag. E. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Spain) and King’s College London (UK). The goal of the project is to develop a novel framework to combine explanations at the different robotic levels to build trustable robots for collaborative and cooperative interactions with people. In this project, we investigate how to make robots able to effectively communicate decisions during the execution of the task and re-plan according to new user inputs or unforeseen situations in real-time along with the execution. Moreover, one of the objectives of the COHERENT project is to establish measures for the effectiveness of explanations through user studies and define assistive tasks to test our explainable methods, creating clear and reproducible protocols. Qualifications Applicants must have a PhD degree, a master degree in computer science, AI, robotics, or equivalent research experience in robotics, computer science or relevant field. The candidates must have: strong background in programming with different languages (including C/C++, Python); be capable to designing and conduct human-robot studies; experience with both qualitative and quantitative methods; attitude to problem-solving; be strongly motivated for team working; very good scientific writing and presentation skills. Preferred Qualifications: collecting data, analysing data, conducting literature reviews and scientific track record, writing up academic publications; experience with the robotic frameworks ROS 1 and ROS 2; strong experience with different robots (humanoid and non-humanoid); background in computer vision, machine learning, neural networks, personalisation applied to robotics. Starting date Due to project constraints, the position needs to start by the end of December 2022. Pay grade (depending on qualifications and seniority) 24000 - 30000 euro for year Deadline and how to apply Please send your application (with cover letter, curriculum vitae, relevant certificates and publications, and the names and contact of at least one referee) by e-mail in a single PDF file to Prof. Silvia Rossi at silvia.rossi@unina.it including in the object [COHERENT position] by 30 November 2022. Do not hesitate to contact us for further information about the position. Info about the COHERENT project can be found on the project website https://www.chistera.eu/projects/coherent Info about the PRISCA lab can be found on the lab website https://prisca.unina.it kind regards Alessandra -- Dr. Alessandra Rossi Assistant Professor PRISCA research lab Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy emails: a.rossi@herts.ac.uk, alessandra.rossi@unina.it, alessandra.rossi@ieee.org website: alessandrarossi.net twitter: @alhandra81