JOB DESCRIPTION

The Delft Center for Systems and Control (DCSC) is looking for a PhD candidate to work on a 4-year project “Control and Generative AI for Human Digital Twin”. Controlling a digital twin of the human body with hundreds of muscles and joints to generate realistic human motion, e.g., walking, running, or jumping, is a challenging control problem. This is essential for conducting human-involved experiments in silico, significantly reducing the experimental cost in various applications, e.g., understanding human motor skills, designing rehabilitation programs, and designing assistive devices such as exoskeletons and prostheses.
Due to the complexity of human digital twin, this project will focus on developing novel control methods by exploiting reinforcement learning (RL) and generative AI. The developed approaches will be used for generating complex human motion across different populations, e.g., healthy individuals, individuals with mobility impairments, and individuals wearing assistive devices. While the primary focus of this project is on healthcare, the results will also have a profound impact on gaming, virtual reality, animation, and humanoid robotics. Experiments for collecting human motion data will be performed using a motion capture system in our Lab.
This research project allows you to gradually build your own research profile according to your interests, while remaining within the project’s goals. You will be responsible for the typical scientific research workflow: motivating the problem, identifying the main methodological shortcomings in literature, developing novel methods in RL and generative AI and novel models for human body, planning and executing experiments, and reporting findings in articles to be published at top venues. Periodic meetings, feedback, and international/national collaborations will ensure the success of your degree and the project overall.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• We are looking for a candidate with a master’s degree in engineering, robotics, computer science, mathematics, or other related fields (must have been awarded by a mutually agreed starting date of the PhD).
• The candidate should have a strong transcript of records.
• Programming skills, e.g., Python or others, is a plus.
• A good command of the English language is also required.

Please refer the Job description for details