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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>FYI<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> ARanganathan@hra.com [mailto:ARanganathan@hra.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 21, 2013 11:56 AM<br><b>Subject:</b> Full-time research position and multiple internship positions available at Honda Research Institute USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Honda Research Institute USA in Mountain View CA has internship and full-time positions in the areas of computer vision and spoken dialog that we are actively looking to fill. Interested candidates should send a cover letter and CV to the email addresses associated with each position as given below. Please put the position ID you are applying for in the subject of the email and name your attachments as "FirstName.LastName.OrganizationName.cv.pdf". Candidates may apply for more than one position.</span> <br><br><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Researcher: Driver Behavior Understanding (Job Number: P12F02)</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><br>Honda Research Institute USA, Inc. in Mountain View, California, has an opening for research and development of multimodal information fusion for driver behavior understanding.</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The project goal is to understand driver’s behavior and intention by combining information from vision, speech, and sensor in the car. The candidate will be responsible for using information from these modalities including visual and speech streams (e.g., driver activity monitoring, environment monitoring, speech utterance). He will apply data fusion and inference methods to understand driver behavior to accomplish meaningful interaction between driver and the car. We encourage members of the research staff to contribute new research ideas and to participate in presentations and scientific publications.</span> <br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Qualifications:</span> <br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Required: </span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>* A MS or PhD degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or equivalent</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>* Strong background in areas of computer vision, data fusion, probabilistic inference, machine learning, and driver monitoring.</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>* Excellent skills in C/C++/Java, Linux</span> <br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Desired: </span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>* Experience with real-time vision systems, e.g., gesture and activity recognition</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>* Experience in implementing multimodal systems <br><br>Duration: <br><br>* Limited 3-year associate position with the possibility of further extensions or a transition to a long-term position at the company discretion. <br><br>To apply, please send a cover letter and your resume to <br></span><a href="mailto:fulltime@honda-ri.com"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0060A0'>fulltime@honda-ri.com</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>with the subject line clearly indicating the job number you are applying for.</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span> <br><br><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Intern Position: Detection of occluded objects using context information (Job number: P12INT03)</span></b> <br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Position Details:</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The intern will be a part of the team working on a real-time driver assistant system that locates and recognizes objects. He/she will be working on the detection of partially occluded </span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>pedestrians and bicyclists using context information extracted from laser range data and video images. </span><br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Qualifications:</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Required: </span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program </span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Research background in computer vision and machine learning</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Matlab, C++, Linux</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Desirable: </span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Cuda</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Object detection </span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Processing of laser range data</span> <br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Duration: 3 months</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>To apply, please send a cover letter and your resume to </span><a href="mailto:fulltime@honda-ri.com"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0060A0'>interns2013@honda-ri.com</span></a> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span> <br><br><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Multiple Intern Positions: Multi-modal and spoken Interaction (Job Number: P12INT04)</span></b> <br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Position Details:</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The interns will be a part of the team working on a multi-modal interaction. The group has multiple positions.</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>First project is on determination of Points of Interest with spoken dialog while driving. Second project is on </span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>multi-modal sensor data fusion. Third project is on web data collection and using the data for designing free </span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>form grammar. The final project is on paraphrasing of spoken text for low cognitive load. Candidate will work</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>on one project, and are encouraged to indicate their preference on their application.</span> <br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Qualifications:</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Required: </span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Currently enrolled in a M.S./Ph.D. program </span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- experience with Machine Learning and Probabilistic Robotics</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Desirable: </span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Spoken dialog/Natural language Processing</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Data Fusion</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- ROS experience</span> <br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Duration: 3 months</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>To apply, please send a cover letter and your resume to </span><a href="mailto:fulltime@honda-ri.com"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0060A0'>interns2013@honda-ri.com</span></a> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span> <br><br><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Intern Position: Visual Localization and 3D reconstruction for road vehicles (Job Number: P12INT05)</span></b> <br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Position Details:</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The project deals with creating a practical, real-time localization system for road vehicles using stereo cameras. The intern will be</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>part of a team working on this problem, and will be expected to investigate and implement methods to perform feature selection and</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>landmark discovery for reliable localization in this setting. </span> <br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Qualifications:</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Required: </span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program </span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Research background in computer vision or robotics (esp. in localization, SLAM/SfM, or dense stereo)</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- C++, Matlab, Linux</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Desirable: </span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Cuda</span> <br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Duration: 3 months</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>To apply, please send a cover letter and your resume to </span><a href="mailto:fulltime@honda-ri.com"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0060A0'>interns2013@honda-ri.com</span></a> <br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>Ananth Ranganathan<br></span><a href="www.ananth.in"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>www.ananth.in</span></a> <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>