Postdoctoral Researcher – Socially Aware Autonomy

Aalto University’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher to advance predictive, human‑aware autonomy for industrial vehicles and robots operating among people. The research focuses on pedestrian intention prediction, human–machine communication, and real‑time risk estimation to enable safer, smoother interactions in urban and industrial environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the research thread on socially‑aware autonomous systems, including pedestrian intention prediction and trajectory forecasting.
• Develop human–machine communication and action legibility modules.
• Create real‑time risk estimation and proactive safety behaviour for human‑robot or vehicle‑pedestrian interaction.
• Integrate perception and prediction with robust, energy‑efficient sensor fusion and distributed computation in collaboration with the Sen...