Join
If you would like to join the xenobot lab, please fill out this form and then send Sam a short email note.
The Xenobot Lab is hiring:
Undergraduate/Master's students
who are enrolled at Northwestern University and interested in AI, robotics or artificial life.Β Β
PhD students
who are curious and creative and enrolled at Northwestern University.
Prospective PhD students can apply through Computer Science, Chemical & Biological Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering.
Make sure you have applied to any sources of scholarships available to you.
Postdocs
who have experience with: physics-based animation, numerical methods, machine learning, GPU computing, differentiable programming, 3D printing, robots, biology.
Developers
with computer graphics experience who desire artistic freedom to build new virtual worlds, seed new evolutions within them, and work closely with mechanical, chemical, and biological engineers to bring whatever evolves to life.
Technicians
with any software (ideally HPC), hardware (ideally robotics), or wetlab (ideally Xenopus) experience.
Location
Our laboratory is currently housed in the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University, which is located on the shores of Lake Michigan, just north of Chicago.Β
Take a virtual tour.