Dear Colleagues,
The Chair of Cyber-Physical Systems, Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria, is seeking a highly motivated PhD student to join our research team working on embodied AI, multimodal robot learning, and vision-language-action models.
Research Topic: Memory-Conditioned Vision-Language-Action Learning for Robotics
The PhD research will investigate memory-augmented Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models for embodied robotic agents, with potential research directions including:
- Episodic and semantic memory for embodied agents
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- Long-horizon vision-language-action learning
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- Memory-conditioned multimodal reasoning and decision-making
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- Open-vocabulary and language-conditioned robot perception
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- Continual and lifelong robot learning
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- Spatial and temporal memory for embodied intelligence
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- Efficient deployment of multimodal foundation models on robotic systems
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- Evaluation of memory-augmented agents on real-world robotic tasks
We welcome applicants with a strong background in robotics, machine learning, computer vision, multimodal/vision-language learning, reinforcement or imitation learning, natural-language grounding, robot perception, or related areas.
Experience with Python/C++, PyTorch, ROS/ROS 2, Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, 3D perception, multimodal foundation models, or real robotic systems is advantageous.
Position details
- Duration: 4 years
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- Employment: Full-time, 40 hours/week
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- Salary: €3,776.10/month, paid 14 times per year
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- Starting date: As soon as possible
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- Location: CPS, Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria
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- Application deadline: Open until a suitable candidate is found
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- Supervisors: Prof. Elmar Rueckert and Dr. Nwankwo Linus
Applicants should hold, or be close to completing, a Master's degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Mechatronics, or a closely related discipline.
Further details and application instructions are available here:
https://cps.unileoben.ac.at/phd-position-memory-conditioned-vision-language-action-learning-for-robotics/
For questions, please contact:
Please feel free to forward this announcement to interested students, researchers, and colleagues.
Best regards,
Dr. Nwankwo Linus
Chair of Cyber-Physical Systems
Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria