PhD position on "reasoning in game-playing" at IRIT, Toulouse (France)

A PhD position on “reasoning in game-playing” is open at IRIT, the computer science department in Toulouse, France, in collaboration with Telecom Paris. Starting date from January 2025.

The PhD will be part of the project “NOGGINS”, which aims at building intelligent players that can play according to different objectives, from "winning the game" to "being ethical", by learning and representing in a symbolic way the strategies for playing games. The key impact of the project is to build trustworthy interpretable AI players which consider strategies as plain meaningful objects.

In that context the research of the PhD candidate will focus on generating strategies from a game description, represent them in a symbolic way, and assess them with respect to standard game-playing algorithms. The applicants should have a master in Computer Science, and background on artificial intelligence, in particular knowledge representation and planning. Gross salary 2100 euros/month.

Applications should be sent to Laurent Perrussel (laurent.perrussel at irit.fr) and Vadim Malvone (vadim.malvone at telecom-paris.fr) before October 30th. Applications should consist of a detailed CV, the grades in the master, and the name of two references. An interview will follow for shortlisted candidates.