IntCDC/ELLIS Independent Research Group Leader "Computer Vision for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction"
The successful candidate will lead a new Independent Junior Research Group jointly affiliated with the Cluster of Excellence IntCDC and the ELLIS Unit Stuttgart. The position will be fully-funded until 31.12.2032, including the group leader position (TV-L E14), funds for doctoral projects (TV-L E13), and annual budget. The establishment of a competitive research program and proactive collaboration with IntCDC partners at the University of Stuttgart, the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, and Bauhaus Earth is expected. The research group will benefit from IntCDC’s supporting structures, instrumentation and labs, as well as its embedding in the ELLIS Unit. The scientific language of IntCDC is English.
The successful candidate will bridge Computer Science and AEC. In this role of bridging, the successful candidate will be keen to engage with AEC and bring in excellent research expertise in Computer Vision in one or more of the following fields:
- Spatial AI, 3D and dynamic scene understanding, reconstruction, and modelling, semantic scene graphs, visual recognition and tracking
- Computer vision and geometry processing, geometric representations
- Computer vision for human-computer interaction, human-robot interaction, or XR (e.g., activity or gesture recognition, user modelling, etc.)
- Combination of computer vision and computer graphics, neural rendering
- Computer vision for Physical AI
- Vision-language(-action) and visual foundation models, multimodal learning
- Generative AI methods for the aforementioned fields
The full-time position is on a fixed-term contract until 31 December 2032. The start date is as soon as possible, but can be adjusted to suit the availability of the successful candidate.
