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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'>A colleague is consulting for a company looking for PhD (maybe MS) grads to hire to work on vision for human-robot interaction. If you’re interested, or if you know someone who might be, contact Henrik Christensen (contact info below).<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><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> Matthew<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><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Henrik Christensen [mailto:hichristensen@eng.ucsd.edu] <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>I am right now doing some consulting for a company that is designing a “companion” robot and as part of this an essential part of using vision for the HCI part of the system. It will be a mixture of speech and vision. I was wondering if you have any students about to graduate that may want to enter industry to do research/development of such technology. The company is foreign but has research labs in the valley and in Boston. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>The company is primarily looking for Ph.D. candidates, but might as a backup consider a really strong M.Sc. They have to be system builders. If they send me CVs I will forward to HR. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Henrik Christensen</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>, Ph.D., Dr. Techn. h.c.,<span class=apple-converted-space> AAAS & IEEE Fellow</span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#777777'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Director, </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="http://jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/contextualrobotics/">Contextual Robotics Institute</a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#777777'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Professor, </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="http://www.cs.ucsd.edu">Computer Science and Engineering</a><span class=apple-converted-space>, </span>UC San Diego</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#777777'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Mobile: +1 404-889-2500 | <a href="http://twitter.com/hiskov">Twitter</a> | <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/henrikichristensen/">Linkedin</a> | <a href="http://about.me/hchristensen">About Me</a> | <a href="http://www.hichristensen.com">URL</a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#777777'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>