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<td>[Ieee_vis_open_positions] Post Doc: Robotics
grasping/visualization, Oregon State University</td>
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<td>Wed, 4 Mar 2020 12:40:36 -0800</td>
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<td>Grimm, Cindy via ieee_vis_open_positions
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<td>Grimm, Cindy <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:grimmc@oregonstate.edu"><grimmc@oregonstate.edu></a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ieee_vis_open_positions@listserv.uni-tuebingen.de">ieee_vis_open_positions@listserv.uni-tuebingen.de</a></td>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Open Position:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Post-doctoral position at the Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CoRIS) institute, Oregon State University</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Description</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: The successful candidate will develop novel robotics interfaces for grasping and manipulation, visualizations, and algorithms for enabling remote robotic grasp and manipulation testing. As part of their responsibilities, the candidate will oversee a diverse team of undergraduates and graduates working on both software and hardware related to robotic manipulation. The position is expected to be filled by April, but the start date is negotiable. The duration of the position is up to two years, with a renewal at one year.</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The team:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> This project is joint between Oregon State University’s CoRIS Institute and the University of Massachusetts Lowell NERVE Center. The CoRIS Institute consists of nearly a dozen core faculty in Robotics and is highly collaborative both within the group and with their colleagues in AI and Machine Learning in EECS. Advising faculty for this project are Drs. Cindy Grimm and Ravi Balasubramanian. The NERVE Center is under the direction of Dr. Holly Yanco and is a state-of-the-art robotics testing facility. Both labs have regular interactions with the broader community, including industry and government labs.</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Duties and Responsibilities:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> These include: 1) Developing a novel robotic grasping and manipulation benchmarking interface that supports remote testing, 2) Overseeing a diverse team of graduate and undergraduates across both institutions (building and maintenance of novel physical benchmarking facilities), and 3) Presentation of work at conferences and to industry and governmental sponsors. </span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Qualifications:</span></p>
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