We are looking for a Postdoc candidate for the project COALA- COgnitive Assisted agile manufacturing for a LAbor force supported by trustworthy Artificial Intelligence, funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program. The project involves 14 partners from 5 European countries and has kicked off on October 1st, 2020.

Within this project, our team aims to develop a cognitive advisor with dedicated human-assisted AI methods for enabling transfer of tacit knowledge of experts to novice workers. The cognitive advisor need to be able to operate with small data sets of machine configurations, product quality, production lines performance, human errors, and changeover time collected from production lines and production processes while operated by experts. It needs to implement a recommendation and configuration management system that guides novice workers by composing dialog content for production line operations based on the explored basic rules. It will provide feedback to the novice workers as a synthesis of instructional and corrective messages considering the context of on the job training as well as the pace of learning. It is therefore important to involve experts in validating recommendations and to algorithms that can deal with this. 

The successful candidate is in possession of a Ph.D. degree in computer science, human computer interaction, or systems engineering with strong affinity to human factors. He or she should have a good understanding of (and be fascinated by) machine learning techniques, computer vision, recommender systems, development of voice assistant, and/or human modelling. The candidate is expected to publish her/his research in scientific journals and conferences. The candidate should be capable of performing independent research and working in a team on research projects. He/she should have an open personality and good communication skills to closely cooperate with colleagues, and students. Regular contact with a Dutch industrial partner is necessary in this project, fluency in Dutch language is an expectation.

Fixed-term contract: 2 years.

Salary and benefits are in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities. The TU Delft offers a customisable compensation package, a discount on health insurance and sport memberships, and a monthly work costs contribution. Flexible work schedules can be arranged.

For international applicants we offer the Coming to Delft Service and Partner Career Advice to assist you with your relocation. An International Children's Centre offers childcare and there is an international primary school.

Delft University of Technology

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In close cooperation with industry, the public sector and NGOs we rehearse possible futures in research and education to design for a complex future.

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