Job Description

COMPANY DESCRIPTION
Singapore Management University is a place where high-level professionalism blends together with a healthy informality. The 'family-like' atmosphere among the SMU community fosters a culture where employees work, plan, organise and play together – building a strong collegiality and morale within the university.

Our commitment to attract and retain talent is ongoing. We offer attractive benefits and welfare, competitive compensation packages, and generous professional development opportunities – all to meet the work-life needs of our staff. No wonder, then, that SMU continues to be given numerous awards and recognition for its human resource excellence.
DESIGNATION : Research Engineer (1-year contract), SCIS

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Investigate robust multiagent planning and reinforcement learning algorithms
• Build simulators for several types of multiagent systems such as the MRT network, marine traffic networks in Python
• Develop mathematical optimization approaches to manage such systems
• Build a working prototype incorporating the developed algorithmic approaches into simulators
• Write research articles based on developed ideas

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Operations research, Electronics and Communication engineering or closely related computing focused disciplines
• Minimum 3 years of experience in programming (preferably Python) required
• Excellent coding skills required in Python/JAVA, or C++• Publicly available sample (e.g. on GitHub) of a significant coding project undertaken by the candidate is required
• Coursework in data structure and algorithms, probability and statistics is required
• Previous demonstrated research experience as demonstrated by publications in AI conferenced and coursework in AI/ML techniques such as automated planning, agent-based systems and reinforcement learning is highly preferred
• Familiarity and coursework in mathematical optimization techniques and tool such as Matlab, Cplex is highly preferred
• Applicants with research publications in relevant areas (AI/ML) will be advantageous