Research Fellow in Simulation Based Autonomous Vehicle Validation

Do you have a strong foundation in automated vehicle development, software development, visualisation or driving simulation?

Do you want to contribute to building the automated transport system of tomorrow, while furthering your career in one of the UK's leading research intensive Universities?

Working in the Human Factors and Safety Research Group you will join a unique, cross-disciplinary team and contribute to a major research project sponsored by Innovate UK to design and develop new methods of rapidly performing system validation of automated vehicles. The project will specifically look at modelling pedestrians and drivers as they interact with automated vehicles and experiments will be performed in the University of Leeds Driving Simulator (UoLDS the most advanced in the UK) and the new HIKER pedestrian simulator (the most advanced in the world). With an interest in leveraging state of the art knowledge in driving simulation and virtual testing relating to self-driving vehicles, you will be responsible for developing simulator software, visual databases and to integrate existing models of drivers and pedestrians as actors into both the UoLDS and into partners' simulations. This work will lead to the testing of prototype commercial automated vehicle software and preparation of papers for scientific journals and conferences.

With a PhD in Engineering or Computer Science, or a closely allied discipline you will also have a strong foundation in Mathematics and Scientific programming and experience developing and testing mathematical models of complex systems. A background in human modelling, vehicle dynamics, automated vehicle development or visual simulation is desirable.

To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact: Professor Richard Romano, Chair in Driving Simulation Tel: +44 (0)113 343 8466, email: r.romano@leeds.ac.uk