Job Details
Job Title: Research Scientist II
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Full/Part Time: Full-Time
Job ID: 301685
About Us
Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our strategic plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.
About Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.
Georgia Tech's Mission and Values
Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:
- Students are our top priority.
- We strive for excellence.
- We thrive on diversity.
- We celebrate collaboration.
- We champion innovation.
- We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
- We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
- We act ethically.
- We are responsible stewards.
Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.
Location
Atlanta, GA
Department Information
About the School of Interactive Computing
The School of Interactive Computing (IC) aims to redefine the human experience of computing using two primary tools: research and innovation in computing education. Our school nurtures an open, inclusive, supportive environment made stronger through multiple perspectives and diverse expertise.
Job Summary
The School of Interactive Computing is seeking to hire a Research Scientist II to contribute to several research projects.
Responsibilities
The research scientist position will have two key categories of job responsibility, broadly defined. These are:
- conducting research, and 2) contribute to sponsored research proposals and, where permitted by sponsor and institutional policy, serve as co-investigator on sponsored research projects.
1) Conducting research: The research scientist will carry out qualitative and quantitative research to advance the state of the art in human-centric AI & robotics, with focus on human-robot teaming, and interactive robot learning. Responsibilities within this category include:
- Developing novel computational methods (algorithms, systems, frameworks, and interfaces)
- Designing and conducting experiments and data collection/analysis efforts
- Publishing and disseminating results at top-tier, peer-reviewed conferences or journals
- Supporting sponsored project deliverables
2) Serving as co-investigator: The research scientist will contribute to the overall competitiveness and stature of Professor Gombolay's CORE Robotics Laboratory, and to the professional and research development of its students. Responsibilities within this category include:
- Mentoring and supervising undergraduate and graduate researchers
- Contributing to the writing, development, and submission of grant proposals
- Collaborating with internal and external research partners
Required Qualifications
Research Scientist II
Three (3) years of relevant full-time experience after completion of Master's or
Five (5) years of relevant full-time experience after completion of Bachelor's or
Doctoral Degree
Preferred Qualifications
Doctoral Degree in relevant field
Experience conducting and publishing research in human-centric AI and robotics, with particular focus in human-robot teaming, explainable AI, robot learning from demonstration, and mixed reality interfaces.
Contact Information
Requests for information may be directed to Matthew Gombolay: matthew.gombolay@cc.gatech.edu
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