We are seeking one Postdoctoral Associate in Computer Science to join the research program Mens, Manus and Machina—How AI Empowers People, Institutions and Cities in Singapore (M3S). Successful applicants for this position will have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge research at the intersection of reinforcement learning (RL), world models, embodied intelligence, and human learning. The research targets a new generation of intelligent agents that learn through sequential interaction, and is organized around two pillars united by a shared reinforcement learning foundation.

Embodied intelligence. This part focuses on robotic agents operating in unstructured 3D environments (homes, offices, industrial sites, shopping malls). The work centres on (a) model-based and hybrid RL algorithms built on multi-modal world models (vision, language, proprioception, action) that support long-horizon planning, principled exploration, and sim-to-real transfer; (b)...