PhD Student in Mixed Reality and Generative AI

vor 16 Stunden


Winterthur, Schweiz ZHAW Vollzeit

School:

School of Engineering

Starting date:

May 1st 2025

To apply, please submit a letter of motivation including information on previous scientific work and publications if available, your CV, and contact details of two referees. Please ensure that all those parts are combined into a single PDF-file. The PhD will be done in collaboration with University of Zurich.

Your role:

The Machine Learning in Visual Computing Group at ZHAW, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, is offering a fully funded PhD study position as part of the IMMERSE project. This PhD project investigates the integration and application of generative AI within virtual environments. The research focuses on developing methods to efficiently create digital content using AI, seamlessly incorporating it into real-world settings to enable immersive training scenarios, and enhancing both individual and team-based training and education experiences.

Your Responsibilities:

  1. Conduct research focused on developing innovative methods in the fields of XR and AI.
  2. Design experiments and analyze data.
  3. Identify limitations in the current state-of-the-art and address them with creative solutions.
  4. Publish findings in leading conferences and journals within the field.
  5. Familiarize yourself with the state-of-the-art during the first six months and collaborate with your supervisor to develop a multi-year research plan.
  6. Serve as a teaching assistant for 1-2 courses per year.

Your profile:

You graduated with excellent results with a MSc in Computer Science. Your academic journey demonstrates a focus on computer vision, computer graphics, human-computer interaction, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence. Through your previous experience, you have developed strong programming skills and gained hands-on expertise with XR technologies, cameras, and 3D engines, such as Unreal or Unity.

This is what we stand for:

Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW is one of Switzerland's largest multidisciplinary universities of applied sciences, with over 14,000 students and 3,400 faculty and staff. ZHAW is committed to gender-mixed and diverse teams in order to promote equality, diversity, and innovation.

We offer:

  • Varied, interesting, and challenging work embedded within a highly interdisciplinary research team.
  • Flexible and friendly working environment.
  • Collaborative work with research teams and companies of IMMERSE's domestic and international partners.
  • Opportunity to participate in international conferences.
  • Teaching opportunities and supervision of research projects / MSc theses.
  • Salary in accordance with SNF guidelines.

What you can expect:

We offer working conditions and terms of employment commensurate with higher education institutions and actively promote personal development for staff in leadership and non-leadership positions. A detailed description of advantages and benefits can be found at Working at the ZHAW.

Contact:

Helmut Grabner
Professor

Jasmin Strobel
Recruiting Manager

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