Proven research excellence through prior publications in top-tier peer-reviewed venues in computer graphics, robotics, and AI, such as SIGGRAPH, Eurographics, IEEE TVCG, Computer Graphics Forum, RSS, ICRA, CVPR, NeurIPS, and ICML. The successful candidate will engage in research aimed at developing agents-whether virtual humans in simulated environments or physical robots-that make context-aware decisions grounded in their own beliefs, goals, and perceptual understanding.