Research Assistant Positions

Last modified: Mon Mar 26 10:12:16 EST 2001

The following Research Assistant positions are currently available. First preference is to Ph.D. students, but masters students are considered. Usual stipend is $14,000 (Ph.D. students) or $11,000 (masters students) for nine months, with summer funds usually available.

Contact Prof. Roy Turner or Prof. Elise Turner if you are interested. For information about applying to graduate school in computer science at UMaine, send e-mail to gradinfo@umcs.maine.edu.

Orca Project: One RA position open starting Fall 2000. Overall project focus is intelligent mission control of autonomous agents, such as autonomous underwater vehicles, to be used in standalone and multiagent missions. Current primary focus is on context-sensitive reasoning and mission planning/execution.
CoDA Project: One RA position open starting Fall 2000. Overall project focuses on developing intelligent control techniques for real-world multiagent systems, such as autonomous oceanographic sampling networks (AOSNs). Current focus for this RA is distributed constraint-based techniques for task assignment, particularly in the AOSN domain.

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