PhD in Active Inference for Manufacturing Processes

Introduction

Are you interested in developing cutting-edge AI that is inspired by how the brain works? In this PhD project you will apply active inference, a leading neuroscientific theory for how the brain works, to continuous model alignment for manufacturing processes.

Job Description

In manufacturing, uncertainties may arise from stochastic machine behavior, sensory noise, changes in environment/context and incomplete information. Real-time adaptation to such disturbances is crucial to the efficiency and effectiveness of the manufacturing process. Active inference is a first-principles theory about how agents act and adapt under uncertainty.

By combining active inference principles with probabilistic graphical modeling, event knowledge graphs and physics-informed neural nets, you will enable agents to reason under uncertainty, test hypothesis and adjust internal models based on observed data. These techniques should provide ful...