Postdoc Positions – Strategic Partnership between Google and MPI for Informatics – Saarbruecken
Research Center for Visual Computing, Interaction and Artificial Intelligence (VIA) at MPI for
Informatics
The Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Informatics in Saarbrücken (Germany) and Google have started a
strategic partnership to establish the “Saarbrücken Research Center for Visual Computing, Interaction
and Artificial Intelligence (VIA)” at the MPI for Informatics.
The center will investigate basic frontier research challenges in computer graphics, computer vision, and
human machine interaction, at the intersection to artificial intelligence and machine learning. Research
results of the center will be openly published. The VIA center is directed by Prof. Dr. Christian Theobalt
from MPI for Informatics.
The center will work on developing important methodical foundations of future intelligent, interactive,
immersive and autonomous computing systems that could support humans in their private and work
lives and that critically depend on advanced approaches in visual computing, interaction and artificial
intelligence. The research conducted at the center could lay the foundations, for example, for new ways
to communicate and interact with and via computing systems of the future, for better ways to enable
intelligent computing systems to perceive and safely interact with the human world, for new ways to
simulate complex scenes with computer graphics, for new ways to build highly immersive virtual and
augmented reality environments, or for innovative ways to create intelligent visual digital assistants.
Research in the center will pave the way for new algorithms that, on the one hand, empower profoundly
advanced functional capabilities in the aforementioned areas, and at the same time enable better
accountability for the underlying algorithms in the form of enhanced explainability, robustness and
trustworthiness.
The new VIA research center at MPI for Informatics offers a striving and inspiring environment, and
world class research facilities to conduct forefront research. We are looking for a postdoctoral
researchers with experience in the following core topics relevant of the center, such as:
- Neural rendering and neural scene representations
- Foundations of machine learning for visual computing
- Virtual human capture and modeling
- Human animation
- 3D/4D reconstruction and scene understanding
- virtual and augmented reality
- New interaction paradigms, e.g. for AR, VR, augmented humans
Applicants for postdoc positions should have an outstanding PhD in computer science or related field
and have conducted research in one or more of the areas listed above. Applicants should have an
excellent track record of publications in the top tier conferences in the relevant fields – vision (CVPR,
ICCV, ECCV etc.), graphics (EUROGRAPIHCS, SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia etc.), machine learning (NeurIPS,
ICML, ICLR etc.), or HCI (ACM CHI, UIST etc.). The application package should contain a CV, a statement
of research, transcripts and the contacts of at least two academic references.
The Max Planck Society seeks to increase the number of women in those areas where they are
underrepresented and therefore explicitly encourages women to apply. The Max Planck Society is
further committed to employing more individuals with handicaps and particularly encourages these to
apply.
Please send your complete application package to via Email to via-applications@mpi-inf.mpg.de