VU Amsterdam hiring Postdoc on Neurosymbolic Reasoning in Multimodal World Models
cgmsnoek · x · 2026-09-01
VU Amsterdam is hiring a Postdoc researcher focused on Neurosymbolic World Models in the Learning and Reasoning group.
- Supervisors: Filip Ilievski, Emile van Krieken, and Cees Snoek.
- Focus: Enhancing commonsense abstraction and reasoning in multimodal world models by learning explicit abstractions from limited data to build dynamic neurosymbolic world models.
- Tasks: Evaluation on commonsense reasoning involving space, time, and causality; potential co-supervision of PhD students.
- Duration: 2-year fully-funded position.
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