We are seeking to fill a PhD position in the Data and Artificial Intelligence Cluster, within the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). You will join a vibrant and diverse team of 15 faculty members and over 40 PhD students and postdocs who are advancing the science and engineering of data, machine learning, AI systems, and applications.
You will be part of the HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions project titled "SYNERGIES: Real and synthetic scenarios generated for the development, training, virtual testing, and validation of CCAM systems."
This project is part of a large program in collaboration with many academic and industrial partners, including major OEMs in Europe, with a significant impact on the future of safe AD deployment. You will be building foundation models for both embedded and embodied AI, focusing on LLM-guided sparsity and learning agents. Your work will involve language-based navigation, training, labeling (and data curation in general), as well as developing more intuitive LLM-based active learning approaches. Ultimately, you will work towards LLM-based scenario descriptions for actor generation in simulations.
Your research will aim to advance the state of the art in foundation models by making them more efficient, inspired by the human brain and memory-based learning and tracking approaches. This will contribute to the development of efficient scene generation and understanding, laying the foundation for safe and efficient autonomous driving deployment in Europe.
You will participate in cutting-edge research, publish your work in leading machine learning and AI conferences and journals, contribute to open-source tools, and collaborate closely to make these tools applicable in real-world autonomous driving contexts. You will have opportunities to present your work at high-profile scientific meetings and conferences. Your primary base will be in Eindhoven, where you will work under the supervision of Mykola Pechenizkiy and Bahram Zonooz.
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A meaningful job in a dynamic and ambitious university, in an interdisciplinary setting and within an international network. You will work on a beautiful, green campus within walking distance of the central train station. In addition, we offer you:
About us
Eindhoven University of Technology is an internationally top-ranking university in the Netherlands that combines scientific curiosity with a hands-on attitude. Our spirit of collaboration translates into an open culture and a top-five position in collaborating with advanced industries. Fundamental knowledge enables us to design solutions for the highly complex problems of today and tomorrow.
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Do you recognize yourself in this profile and would you like to know more?
Please contact the hiring manager Dr. Bahram Zonooz, b.zonooz@tue.nl and/or prof.dr. Mykola Pechenizkiy, m.pechenizkiy@tue.nl .
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