Postdoctoral Fellow

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Department
Department of Computing
Rank
Postdoctoral
Position type
Full-time
Reference
260422009
Application deadline
22 May 2026

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Design, develop and integrate advanced intelligent human-robot collaborative systems with robotic hardware, sensing modules and control architectures.
  • Conduct independent research on multimodal human-robot interaction and human-centered collaborative robotic systems.
  • Develop algorithms for human intention understanding, multimodal perception, fusion and environment-aware state estimation.
  • Investigate game-theoretic and human-in-the-loop decision-making methods for human-robot collaboration.
  • Establish safety-aware control frameworks for coupled human-robot-environment systems with stability and performance guarantees.
  • Design experiments for collaborative robotic tasks including contact-rich manipulation and data collection.
  • Prepare high-quality research outputs including journal articles, conference papers and funding proposals.
  • Assist in supervising research students and collaborate with internal and external project partners.

Requirements & Qualifications

  • Hold a doctoral degree or equivalent qualification.
  • Have no more than five years of postdoctoral experience.

Appointment

  • Contract — 12 months

Key Dates

  • Not specified
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