Research Scholar ( Part-time)
Visual Computing
The Immersive Computing Lab (ICL) (Director, Qi Sun) at the Tandon School of Engineering, New York University is seeking to hire multiple part-time research scholar positions in a wide variety of research projects that are signature scopes of our multidisciplinary group. The ICL is home to a highly collaborative, vibrant group of young scholars, with complementary expertise across theory, experiments, and computation.
New York University (NYU) is one of the top private universities in the United States, and the Tandon School of Engineering, located in Brooklyn, NY, is deeply committed to excellence in teaching and learning. Tandon fosters student and faculty innovation and entrepreneurship that make a difference in the world
Expectations
We seek independent, motivated, and creative individuals to conduct fundamental research in the broad areas of virtual/augmented reality (VR/AR), computer graphics/vision, generative AI, and neural rendering. Candidates will be making important contributions to one or multiple research projects supported by our several ongoing grants (see ICL: Research).
Candidates will be responsible for conducting research in the areas of theoretical and statistical modeling of human visual and multimodal perception/behaviors, generative diffusion models, cloud-based computer graphics, as well as neural rendering (e.g., neural radiance fields and 3D Gaussian splatting).
Salary range
In compliance with NYC’s Pay Transparency Act, the hourly rate for this position is $26.37 to $34.34, depending on the candidate’s experience and qualification. The position is scheduled for 27 hours per week.
