Department of Computer Science and Technology, West Cambridge
Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 30 months.
Applications are invited for a Research Associate (PostDoc) or Research Assistant (RA) who is about to receive their PhD, to join the Affective Intelligence and Robotics Lab in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, at the University of Cambridge, UK (The Cambridge AFAR Lab: https://cambridge-afar.github.io/). The Research Associate / Research Assistant (RA) will ideally start the post on 1st of September 2025 (or earliest thereof), and will work on the MICRO Project (https://chanse.org/micro/ ).
The RA will be supervised by Prof Hatice Gunes, Prof Jenny Gibson and Prof Tamsin Ford in Cambridge and will work closely with the other members of the multi-national and multi-disciplinary team of researchers from Uppsala University (Sweden), ETH Zürich (Switzerland) and Bielefeld University, Germany on measuring children's wellbeing and mental health with social robots. The specific focus of the RA will be on: 1) assisting in the design and undertaking of child-robot interaction studies, and 2) applying signal processing and machine learning methodologies for child-robot multimodal and interactive behaviour analysis and understanding to facilitate AI based child mental wellbeing and mental health prediction.