<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>** Apologies for cross postings ** </div><div><br></div><div><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(246,246,246)">Disney Research conducts scientific technology research for The Walt Disney Company. Our main focus areas are Visual Computing, Robotics, Machine Learning and AI. We work on scientific applications within the Disney entertainment segments that are experienced daily by millions of people around the world.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(246,246,246)">Research areas of interest: We are broadly interested in Embodied Conversational Agents. (ECA’s). This spans many interdisciplinary research areas including but not limited to:</p><ul style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1rem 1.25rem;padding:0px;list-style-position:outside;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(246,246,246)"><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit">Natural Language Processing: Proficiency with NLP tools like NLTK, Stanford NLP parser, intent classification, natural language understanding, real-time streaming systems</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit">Computer Vision: Facial expression analysis, Emotion identification</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit">Audio processing: Speech-to-text analysis, digital signal processing</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit">Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Extraction and Representation for Natural Language Knowledge, Commonsense Knowledge, Story-specific knowledge, Symbolic and Neural Knowledge Representations.Autonomous Agent Architectures: BDI Models for</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit">Autonomous Agents, Personality, Mood, Emotion (P/M/E) modeling, Deliberation systems, Planning-based systems (e.g., PDDL, HTN’s)</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit">Character Animation: Facial Animation synthesis, Lip syncing, Gestures, and upper body movement, Procedural and Data-driven Animation Systems, Expressive Animation Systems</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit">Behavior: Behavior Markup Languages (BML), Multi-modal behavior synthesis, Prosody, Speech Synthesis</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit">Natural Language Generation Systems</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit">Human-Computer Interaction</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit">Interactive Narrative Technologies</li></ul><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(246,246,246)">A lab associate position runs three to four months, although exceptions are made when necessary.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(246,246,246)">These responsibilities include, but are not limited to:</p><ul style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1rem 1.25rem;padding:0px;list-style-position:outside;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(246,246,246)"><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit">Contribute to fully functional prototype of an embodied conversational agent</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit">Work with our researchers to generate research results and implement hard and/or software prototypes.</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit">Document research in internal reports, peer-reviewed publications, and patent applications.</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit">Work with Disney’s businesses to transfer research results.</li></ul><div><font color="#444444" face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">Online application: <a href="https://www.disneyresearch.com/job_posting/lab-associate-intern-eca-disney-research-los-angeles/">https://www.disneyresearch.com/job_posting/lab-associate-intern-eca-disney-research-los-angeles/</a></span></font></div></div><div><font color="#444444" face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#444444" face="Open Sans, Helvetica,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