Postdoc Position

Summary

  • Starting date: ASAP, but not later than 1 October 2025
  • Duration: 1 year
  • Salary: EUR 4291 (gross per month)
  • Special point: intended as stepping stone to lifetime position
  • Questions: please contact Christian Sandor

Introduction

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Augmented Reality (AR) have made incredible progress over the last few years. We are not far away from a future, in which a user’s view could be continuously modified by their smart glasses. Besides some obvious ethical concerns about such a future, there are also immense opportunities for using this capability to make our lives better. The high-level context of this position is to help us develop fundamental technologies and study their applications and effects on humans.

A special benefit of this position is that is intended to support outstanding young researchers to prepare an application for a lifetime position at CNRS. These positions are unique, as they provide the probably fastest tracks for talented young researchers to get a tenured position (more than 5 years faster than a comparable track in e.g. the USA). CNRS positions also come with a status as French civil servant, which includes significant benefits (e.g. sabbaticals with a duration of up to 8 years, true lifetime employment, an attractive pension, etc.).

Skill Profile

The ideal candidate has 2-3 years of postdoc experience and is competent in one or more of the following topics:

  • AR/VR
  • HCI/3DUIs
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Vision
  • Deep Learning

We also consider candidates who are outside of this profile, but who can convince us that they can grow into it.

Research Environment

The Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique (LISN) is a multidisciplinary laboratory at France’s leading research university: Université Paris-Saclay. The successful candidate will be expected to join team ARAI within LISN’s HCI department (IaH).

Team ARAI was very recently founded to pioneer the application of AI to AR; it is currently composed out of 2 permanent staff members, 2 external research engineers, 5 PhD students, and 2 interns. It is strongly connected to the large French projects CONTINUUM and ENSEMBLE.