Getting involved with indylab

Thanks for your interest in our lab! We’re always excited to have postdocs, grads, visitors, and undergrads join us in exciting research. Please see below for the preferred way to contact us. Sorry if we’re unable to respond to other methods of communication.

Inclusion: We support inclusive excellence, which means that we encourage you to apply regardless of how you identify. We believe that bringing different backgrounds and ideas to the table makes for better research and a better society. We also recognize that people of different backgrounds are differently challenged and strive to evaluate candidates’ past achievement relative to opportunity.

Postdoctoral researchers

We’re hiring postdocs in reinforcement learning and robot learning. The position provides opportunities for independent and collaborative research in theoretical, algorithmic, and practical approaches to control learning, in particular optimization for reinforcement learning, world modeling, robot learning, structured control, multi-task learning, and multi-agent systems. You’re welcome to contact Prof. Fox by email.

Doctoral students

We’re searching for new fully-funded PhD students every year. The application process is managed by the UCI Computer Science Department. You’re welcome to mention Prof. Fox as a potential advisor in your application, but prior email contact is not at all needed. Due to the large number of applicants, we’re unable to respond to emails enquiring about applications.

Master’s and undergraduate students

We have limited capacity to recruit UCI Master’s and undergraduate students who wish to get involved in our lab’s research activity and gain experience. If you’re passionate about the kind of research we do, and can commit to work on research for at least 15 hours per week for 2 quarters, you’re welcome to fill out this form. Prior coursework in AI/ML is required, and prior experience is preferred. If we haven’t contacted you, that means that we’re still looking for more availability to mentor students, which is unfortunately very limited at this time. These positions are unfunded, and we can only consider students who are already admitted to UCI.

Short-term visitors

We have limited availability for unfunded short-term visitors to the lab. If you’re interested in working on research with us and can commit to at least 2 quarters, please contact Prof. Fox by email. At this time we cannot accommodate shorter visits, including summer internships.