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Due the volume of inquiries, we have moved to a standardized form.\u00a0 If you are interested in applying to our group as an undergraduate\/MS\/PhD student, postdoc, or visiting researcher, please complete the following application:\u00a0 https:\/\/forms.gle\/XmqAeyZtVZ7UzhJK7<\/a><\/p>\n I deeply appreciate your interest and the time you invest in this.\u00a0 If there is an opening that’s a good fit for you, we will be in touch.\u00a0 We typically review applicants and contact prospective students for the fall semester in the prior January and for the spring semester in the proceeding September — we appreciate your patience in the meantime.\u00a0 We will receive a notification for each new form submission and there is no need to reach out directly.\u00a0<\/p>\n For postdoc inquiries or self-funded students (e.g. PhD fellowship awardees), these undergo a separate off-cycle review process and please also send me an email after completing the form.\u00a0 In order to bypass spam filters, please start with title of your email with the tag “[Prospective Neuroboticist]”<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Following acceptance from the lab, prospective graduate students must also formally apply to the UVM Graduate College<\/a>.\u00a0 Thanks!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n *Note<\/strong>: Prof. Cheney is on sabbatical and will not be taking on new students for the 2025-2026 academic year.\u00a0 We will resume reviewing applications in January for Fall 2026 start dates.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We frequently have open opportunities (1-2 per year) for exceptional students who wish to pursue a PhD or Postdoctoral position in Computer Science<\/a> or Complex Systems and Data Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n We are especially interested in prospective researchers with applicable prior research experience and a desire to build foundational intuition and understanding within our core focus areas of evolutionary computation (especially evolutionary robotics, evolutionary machine learning, and generative\/developmental systems), and deep learning (especially around meta-learning, few-shot learning, online continual learning, and neural architecture search), and reinforcement learning.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n This was perhaps best articulated by Alexa Woodward, the inaugural Executive Director of the UVM Complex Systems Center, in reflecting on why she chose to make the move here from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.\u00a0 She said “There are a lot of smart people doing smart things in the world, but very few of them are having as much fun as these folks.”\u00a0 We take fun and play very seriously here and strive to form a community and lab where creativity, collaboration, openness, and acceptance are paramount and work in concert with dedicated and rigorous science.\u00a0 As a result, our alumni have had outstanding success, both during their time as students here and in securing and excelling in jobs in industry and academia post-UVM — and most of all, enjoyed the journey along the way.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/h4>\n
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