VISION & LANGUAGE FOR AUTONOMOUS AI GROUP

Position

PhD - Monash University
Work type: Full time
Location: Clayton, Melbourne

Comment: The positions are available for immediate start. Therefore the applicants may need to be already in Australia or have a valid Australian visa and are willing to travel to Australia immediately.

Position description

We have 2-3 fully funded PhD positions available and are looking for highly motivated (domestic/international) candidates to join our Assured Neuro-symbolic Reasoning project .

  • One PhD position in Planning Agent Subteam – Focus areas include:
      • Neuro-symbolic goal recognition
      • Neuro-symbolic path planning
      • Neuro-symbolic reinforcement learning
      • Differential partial equation modeling for dynamic systems using Neural PDE solvers
    • One PhD position in multi-modal (LLM/VLM) Agent Subteam – Focus areas include:
      • Neuro-symbolic multi-modal embodied AI agents
    • One PhD position in World-Model Subteam – Focus areas include:
      • Neuro-symbolic world modeling and reasoning
      • Formal explanation of neuro-symbolic systems

    Skills

    Ideal candidates should have a strong background in neural networks and preferably have experience in:

    • Symbolic planning
    • Differential equation modeling
    • Logic reasoning using Datalog, Problog, Linear Temporal Logic, ASP, etc.
    • Declarative logic programming
    • Causality or knowledge-graph based reasoning
    • LLM/VLM code-generating agent modelling

    Candidates with research experience, demonstrated through a thesis or publications in top-tier ML/AI/NLP/CV/Robotics conferences, will be highly favoured.

    Essential Skills:

    • An Honour/Master/PhD degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or Engineering.
    • A background in deep learning for computer vision/speech processing/NLP.
    • Proficient programming skills and extensive experience working with one of the main deep Learning libraries (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch or Keras).
    • Fluency in written and spoken English, with an ability to communicate scientific ideas to an expert audience, both orally and written.

    How to Apply

    To apply for the position, please send an email to Dr. Hamid Rezatofighi hamid.rezatofighi@monash.edu or Prof. Maria Garcia de la Banda Maria.GarciadelaBanda@monash.edu for consideration by March 15th, 2025. including the following attachments:

    • Full resume/CV
    • Academic transcripts
    • Key selection criteria (skills) response