Project Scientist - Robotics Institute

Responsibilities

• Acts as team leader, providing project management direction.
• Contributor in developing and documenting research findings and collaborator in writing scientific papers.
• Develop and maintain pipelines for processing large-scale 3D human datasets, including human mesh reconstruction, mesh cleanup, optimization, and conversion between parametric body models such as HMR and SMPL.
• Lead research efforts within main goals of project, and help coordinate interactions with other team members and universities.
• Process, synchronize, and validate motion capture datasets involving both human meshes and 3D objects, while developing tools for data calibration, quality assurance, and annotation.
• Propose and lead independent research goals within scope of projects.
• Support research in 3D human modeling by implementing and optimizing algorithms for human mesh recovery, pose estimation, and parametric human body representations to enable downstream computer vision, robotics, and generative AI research.
• Writing documentation, technical papers, progress reports and participating in meetings/committees.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• Strong Analytical Skills
• Excellent Oral and Written Communication Skills
• Excellent Project Management Skills
• 5-8 Years of Research Experience