Research Engineer (1-year contract), SCIS

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Singapore Management University is a place where high-level professionalism blends together with a healthy informality. The 'family-like' atmosphere among the SMU community fosters a culture where employees work, plan, organise and play together – building a strong collegiality and morale within the university.

Our commitment to attract and retain talent is ongoing. We offer attractive benefits and welfare, competitive compensation packages, and generous professional development opportunities – all to meet the work-life needs of our staff. No wonder, then, that SMU continues to be given numerous awards and recognition for its human resource excellence.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The candidate will be responsible for conducting research on Embodied Perception and Reasoning algorithms. Successful candidate will be part of an active research team led by Prof Bin Zhu from School of Computing and Information Systems (SCIS), Singapore Management University (SMU).

• Develop embodied perception algorithms for visual, spatial, and semantic understanding of dynamic environments.
• Design and implement reasoning models that enable robotic manipulation tasks.
• Conduct experiments for both simulated and real-world Embodied Agent Evaluation.
• Produce high-quality research publications in top-tier conferences and journals.
• Other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems or closely related disciplines from an institution of higher learning.
• Minimum 1 years of relevant research experience in multimodal learning, computer vision and embodied AI.
• Proven track record and professional experience in deep learning, multimodal learning or embodied perception and reasoning.
• Applicants with research publications in computer vision and embodied AI are preferred.
• Self-motivated individual who can work independently and collaboratively with team members.