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Reinforcement Learning Professors and Supervisors in Switzerland
Professors in reinforcement learning in switzerland
78 professors found
Istituto dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale
Switzerland
Research Interests
Control System
Systems Neuroscience
Model Predictive Control
Discrete-time Systems
Reinforcement Learning
Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI) IDSIA-SUPSI
Switzerland
Research Interests
Human-robot Interaction
Control System
Mobile Robotics
Reinforcement Learning
Intelligent Control
Terra Quantum AG
Switzerland
Research Interests
Quantum Physics
Quantum Mechanics
Quantum Computing
Quantum Electronics
Quantum Dynamics
Professor
Università del Salento
Switzerland
Research Interests
Artificial Intelligence
Automotive Engineering
Deep Learning
Autonomous Vehicle
Autonomous Navigation
Full professor
ETH Zürich
Switzerland
Research Interests
Energy Engineering
Structural Engineering
Building Physics
Organic Photovoltaics
3d Printing
Assist. Professor
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Switzerland
Research Interests
Climatology
Energy Engineering
Indoor Air Quality
Heating Systems
Hvac Engineering
Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)
Switzerland
Research Interests
Control System
Flight Dynamics
Optimal Control
Robust Control
Continuous-time Systems
Professor and Lab Director
ETH Zürich
Switzerland
Research Interests
Human-robot Interaction
Flight Dynamics
Aerial Robotics
Mobile Robotics
Autonomous Navigation
ETH Zürich
Switzerland
Research Interests
Transportation Engineering
Behavioral Economics
Traffic Flow Theory
Multimodal Transportation
Reinforcement Learning
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ETH Zurich
Switzerland
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2 weeks ago
ETH Zurich’s Advanced Manufacturing Lab (am|z), led by Prof. Markus Bambach, is recruiting a Doctoral Researcher in humanoid robotics , 3D perception , and embodied AI for autonomous manufacturing. The project focuses on enabling humanoid robots to perceive, understand, and interact with complex manufacturing environments using novel RGB-D sensing technologies. Research topics include robot perception , semantic segmentation , 3D scene understanding , simulation-to-real transfer , autonomous man...
Computer Science
Mechanical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
+4 more
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ETH Zurich
Switzerland
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1 week ago
Doctoral Student in Machine Learning and Medical Data Science at ETH Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland. The Medical Data Science Group, led by Prof. Julia Vogt , is recruiting a highly motivated PhD student to work at the intersection of machine learning , AI , and medical data science . Research directions include representation learning, pre- and post-training of foundation models, generative AI, explainability and interpretability, probabilistic modeling, time-series analysis, and multimodal lear...
Computer Science
Biomedical Engineering
Mathematics
+8 more
1 week ago
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Switzerland
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1 month ago
EPFL is promoting the Excellence Fellowships 2027 for outstanding international students seeking a Master's degree at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland . This scholarship is aimed at students in Engineering, Science, and Technology , with strong relevance to fields such as Electrical Engineering , Computer Science , Mechanical Engineering , Materials Science , Physics , Chemistry , and related technical disciplines. Funding includes CHF 10,000 per semester (up to CHF 40...
Computer Science
Chemistry
Biomedical Engineering
+7 more
1 month ago
Living costs in Switzerland
Estimated costs in Switzerland.
MonthlyYearly | Switzerland |
|---|---|
 Visa & Immigration Fees Student visa and residence permit fees per year | CHF132 $150/yr |
 Utilities & Connectivity Electricity, water, internet, and mobile per year | CHF845 $960/yr |
 Personal Care Toiletries, haircuts, and personal items per year | CHF845 $960/yr |
 Housing Shared flats and off-campus rentals per year | CHF9.5k $10,800/yr |
Estimates based on university averages and Numbeo
Popular professors
Assistant professor of Intelligent Maintenance and Operations Systems
EPFL Swiss Finance Institute
Switzerland
Research Interests
Artificial Intelligence
Industrial Automation
Fault Detection
Deep Learning
Degradation Modeling
Researcher at Idiap Research Institute | Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the University of Manchester | AI Group Leader at the digital Experimental Cancer Medicine Team
IDIAP and EPFL PhD programme
Switzerland
Research Interests
Computational Linguistics
Artificial Intelligence
Biomedical Applications
Large Language Models
Nlp
Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI) IDSIA-SUPSI
Switzerland
Research Interests
Human-robot Interaction
Control System
Mobile Robotics
Reinforcement Learning
Model Predictive Control
Opportunities these professors hire for
University of Basel
Just Landed
Switzerland
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Posted Yesterday
Just Landed
The Rhine AI research group, led by Prof. I. Bogunovic in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Basel, Switzerland, invites applications for a postdoctoral position in machine learning and artificial intelligence. The project, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, focuses on the post-training of diffusion-based large language models (dLLMs) and improving their reasoning capabilities. The postdoctoral researcher will develop reinforcement-learning meth...
Computer Science
Mathematics
Artificial Intelligence
+6 more
Posted Yesterday
University of Basel
Just Landed
Switzerland
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Posted Yesterday
Just Landed
The Rhine AI research group at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Basel, invites applications for a fully funded PhD position in post-training diffusion language models. The project, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, is titled “Foundations of Post-Training for Reasoning in Diffusion Large Language Models.” The successful candidate will develop reinforcement learning methods for post-training large diffusion-based language models, investigate reasonin...
Computer Science
Mathematics
Artificial Intelligence
+6 more
Posted Yesterday
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Switzerland
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2 weeks ago
EPFL’s A. Mathis Group for Computational Neuroscience and AI (CNAI) is recruiting two postdoctoral fellows for research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and neuroscience . Position 1: Computer Vision & AI for Behavior Analysis focuses on behavioral datasets, animal and environment reconstruction, multi-view video and audio understanding, multimodal large language models, and the next generation of DeepLabCut and related open-source tools. Position 2: Embodied AI focuses on muscle-a...
Computer Science
Psychology
Deep Learning
+9 more
2 weeks ago
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