Hiring 16 doctoral students to join the CONVERGENCE of Humans and Machines research field at TAU
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CONVERGENCE is the trailblazing doctoral field, which aims at bringing together expertise of natural sciences & engineering (ENG) and social sciences & humanities (SSH) in multidisciplinary union. As many as 16 doctoral research projects are related to the following developments: affective computing, gamification, augmented reality, cybernetics, ubiquitous connectivity, dispersed computing, AI & machine learning, and robotics & machine perception. Each student will be supervised by two leading senior faculty members (and, sometimes, a PostDoc or company/organization representative). The main supervisor and the co-supervisor are from different research fields: ENG and SSH.
Read more about 16 open doctoral positions and supervisory team details here: http://tuni.fi/convergence
Join CONVERGENCE… And make a change!
The list of open positions (as of 07.01.2023) is:
- AI/Human-generated Worlds: Merging Psychophysiology and Machine Learning for Creating Virtual Realities
- Human and Machine Perception of Affect in Speech
- The Future of Human Augmentation in Games
- Ethical Issues in Pervasive Gamified Software, Datafication, Metrification, and Algorithmic Control of Human Practice
- Digital Experience Ecology of Societal Value
- Augmented Awareness of Contextual Information
- Technologically Augmented Embodiment and Contemporary Theatre Performance
- Games & Play for Posthumans
- Young People and Future Technology: New Ways to Decrease Social Isolation and to Increase Social Interaction (YouthTech)
- XR in the Wild – Wireless Technology and the Future of Human Environmental Experiences
- Combining IoT Sensors and Machine Learning to Detect Emotions and Social Experiences
- Second Skin – A Wireless Artificial Cutaneous Sensing System
- The Influence of Algorithms or Bots on Political Communication in Social Media
- Explanations, Fairness, and Interactivity of Recommendations
- Robots as Companions to Support Life-Long Wellness
- Socially-Aware Machine Perception
Useful links:
- CONVERGENCE of Humans and Machines page
- DPHAT Doctoral School page
- Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences page
- Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation
Contact person
Aleksandr Ometov
Senior Research Fellow![](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent-webapi.tuni.fi%2Fimage-style%2Fbase_square_lg%2Fproxy%2Fpublic%2Fprofile_pictures%2F5312.jpg%3Fitok%3Dqb8Anh1k&w=1200&q=75)