Postdoc in Machine Learning Based Co-Design of Aerodynamic Shape and Control, EPFL
Job Description
EPFL’s Computer Vision Laboratory is hiring a postdoc on machine learning based co-design of aerodynamic shape and control. The call is open until filled.
At a glance
- Post: Postdoc in Machine Learning Based Co-Design of Aerodynamic Shape and Control
- Where: Computer Vision Laboratory (CVLab), EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Pay: on the EPFL scale for this grade; the advert gives no figure
- Closing date: none given. EPFL reviews applications as they arrive, so the post is open until filled. We re-check these listings about every 30 days
Read the official EPFL advertisement before you apply.
The project
The project works on co-design for aerodynamic shape and control, along the lines described in the laboratory’s technical report. Co-design means optimising the shape of a vehicle and the controller that flies it together, as one problem, which is harder and better than doing either in isolation.
The advertisement names a potential target application: designing model gliders to compete in FAI competitions such as the F5 electric flight classes. That is a real and demanding testbed, where a design has to work in the air against other designs.
What you need
- A PhD in computer science, machine learning, aerospace engineering or a related field
- Strength in optimisation, differentiable simulation or reinforcement learning
- Read the official advertisement, which links the technical report describing the approach
Pay and conditions
EPFL pays doctoral assistants and postdoctoral researchers on published Swiss federal scales, which are among the higher ones in Europe. This advertisement states no figure, so check the scale for your grade and the cost of living in Lausanne before you decide.
How to apply
Apply through the EPFL careers page for this post. The advertisement gives no closing date. EPFL reviews applications as they come in, so apply early.
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Hiring institution: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Official advertisement: careers.epfl.ch
How to prepare for this application
- Read the linked arXiv report first. The advertisement points at it, and it tells you exactly what the group is doing.
- Differentiable simulation is the likely tool. Experience there is directly relevant.
- EPFL works in English. Research and teaching at this level run in English, so French is useful but rarely required.
- Doctoral candidates apply twice. A lab offer at EPFL is normally followed by admission to a doctoral programme, so check the programme's own requirements too.
About EPFL
The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne is one of Switzerland's two federal institutes of technology. It has more than 6,500 staff and over 18,500 people on campus, including more than 14,000 students and 4,000 researchers from over 120 countries, with sites at Lausanne, Neuchâtel, Fribourg, Sion, Geneva and Villigen.
