Dear colleagues,

We are recruiting for a four year fully-paid PhD position in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at Delft University of Technology

“An optimal soft-fruit chain starts at the harvest”:

Are you interested in learning about and developing new decision support algorithms, extending state-of-the-art computer vision and machine learning techniques? Are you prepared to take on real-life challenges related to harvesting strawberries? Join us as a PhD student in a project where we aim to advise growers of strawberries on when to harvest, based on weather predictions and time-series of images of these strawberries during their growth. The main tasks for the PhD student will be:

1) to combine algorithms for computer vision and methods for learning from time series data with algorithms on decision support from the fields of constraint programming, mathematical optimisation, and/or reinforcement learning to solve this harvesting problem, and

2) to deepen our understanding of these techniques and how they can be successfully combined.

This position is jointly between Mathijs de Weerdt from the Algorithmics research group and Thomas Abeel from the Delft Bioinformatics Lab, both at the Delft University of Technology.

We are looking for excellent candidates who meet the following requirements:

- a MSc degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, or a closely related field;

- affinity with interdisciplinary work;

- good programming skills;

- good English speaking and writing skills.

If you’re interested, please send your CV (including a transcript of the grades for relevant courses), a motivation letter and (a link to) your master thesis to Sophie den Hartog <S.C.denHartog@tudelft.nl> before August 31, 2020.

kind regards,

Thomas