Career

We are open for collaborations with great, curious, hard-working individuals in various ways.

Note: We do not offer unpaid, volunteer work. Also, paid GRA positions will typically be filled by folks who have already worked with us for a while. The best way to get started working with us is through special research problems (CS8903) at MS level, or the equivalent at undergraduate level.

Postdoc Positions

In-Cabin Driver and Passenger Usage Learning and Prediction (ULP)

We are collaboration with a major car manufacturer in the context of smart / autonomous driving. For this scenario we are developing automated means to capture and model driver’s behaviors and preferences on how to interact with the smart vehicle.

Goal:

Leverage advanced AI/ML and computational intelligence techniques to learn from in-cabin usage of various features and applications under different driving contexts, user behavior and state to create customer value.

Approach:

Capture user behavior and actions through multimodal sensing Model user behavior through Graph Neural Network approach Automatically identify relevant behaviors and correlations to in-cabin actions Focus on personalization Evaluation on simulated and real-world data

Contact

Reach out to Thomas for more information.

PhD positions

We do not have any openings at this time.

MS projects

Interested students should reach out to Thomas with a proposal for their project such that we can discuss whether there is a good intellectual match.

MS special topics (CS8903)

Three credit hours special topics are the best way to start engagement with the CBA lab. Interested students should reach out well in advance of the semester they want to start working on the project and discuss potential topics with Thomas. If there is an overlap in research interests, then the student will start exploring the particular topic with some initial literature exploration / initial experiments – with the goal to understand the chosen (general) research field. The student will then write (with our help) a proposal for their special topic, which will then be the basis for their work.

Note: This exploration typically takes a few weeks, so interested students need to reach out early. It is typically not sufficient to reach out in the first week of a semester to seek approval for a special topic for that same semester (i.e., within one week.)

Special topics are typically worked on for 3 credit hours.

Undergraduate Research Opportunities

Similar to the aforementioned procedure for MS special topics, interested undergraduate students should reach out well in advance of the semester they want to start working on a project in our lab.

We are also open to capstone or CreateX projects.