Reposted by Judith Abécassis
We are hiring a ELLIS PhD student at @saarland-informatics-campus.de on #Causal Representation Learning for #Robotics, co-supervised with @egavves.bsky.social at the University of Amsterdam
Apply directly through the ELLIS centralized application portal: ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...
Deadline: 31 Oct
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ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications 2026
The ELLIS PhD Program is a key pillar of the ELLIS initiative whose goal is to foster and educate the best talent in machine learning and related research areas by pairing outstanding students with le...
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