College of IST-Research Assistant in Securing Embodied AI Systems w Dr Peng
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Job Location:
University Park, IL - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
23 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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JOB DESCRIPTION AND POSITION REQUIREMENTS
The College of IST is seeking applicants for part-time job of Research Assistant in Securing Embodied AI Systems. We are looking for a summer research assistant who has expertise in the intersection of adversarial and typographic attacks Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and embodied particular the researcher will work on identifying and assessing the severity of adversarial and typographic attacks against end-to-end VLA models. For example a malicious input at the perceptual layer can propagate silently through reasoning and into physical action misclassifying objects and bypassing the safety checks. Accordingly the researcher should have adequate experience in both Cyber-Physical Security and Embodied AI systems. This position involves part-time wage payroll employment.
Job duties to include:
- Identify and address the limitations of the existing security measures for autonomous AI agents
- Develop a new IFC framework
- Conduct experiments to validate the new IFC framework.
- Write a technical report.
Requirements qualifications and/or competencies:
- Researcher should have adequate experience in both Cyber-Physical Security and Embodied AI systems
Compensation:
The starting rate for this job is $16.00
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Required Experience:
Junior IC
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