General information
Offer title : M/F : Making a Better Future with Augmented Reality and Artifical Intelligence (H/F)
Reference : UMR9015-CHRSAN-004
Number of position : 1
Workplace : GIF SUR YVETTE
Date of publication : 04 June 2025
Type of Contract : Researcher in FTC
Contract Period : 12 months
Expected date of employment : 1 September 2025
Proportion of work : Full Time
Remuneration : 4291,70 EUR (gross per month)
Desired level of education : Doctorate
Experience required : 5 to 10 years
Section(s) CN : 07 - Information sciences: processing, integrated hardware-software systems, robots, commands, images, content, interactions, signals and languages
Missions
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.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_National_Centre_for_Scientific_Research
Activities
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Skills
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.
Work Context
The Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique (LISN [2]) is a multidisciplinary laboratory at Université Paris-Saclay. The successful candidate will be expected to join team ARAI [3] within LISN's HCI department (IaH [4]).
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 [5] and ENSEMBLE [6].
The position is located in an area covered by the protection of scientific and technical potential (PPST), and therefore requires, in accordance with regulations, that your arrival be authorized by the competent MESR authority, who is performing a mandatory background check.
[2] https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/?lang=en
[3] https://ar-ai.org
[4] https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/research/research-departments/interaction-with-human/?lang=en
[5] http://continuum.website
[6] https://pepr-ensemble.fr/home.html
The position is located in a sector under the protection of scientific and technical potential (PPST), and therefore requires, in accordance with the regulations, that your arrival is authorized by the competent authority of the MESR.
Constraints and risks
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