Research Scientist Internship (Global AI Center, Ann Arbor)

About LG AI Research Center, Ann Arbor

LG AI Research Center, Ann Arbor was established in March 2022 and tackles cutting-edge research questions to make the world a better place. Our mission is to develop impactful and responsible artificial intelligence that benefits technological innovations, scientific discovery, and all of humanity. We encourage open communication, collaboration, diverse perspectives, and a growth mindset. We not only hire "well-established experts" in the relevant field of AI but also look for "high-potential candidates" who can ramp up quickly on topics aligned with our mission and values. We do not discriminate against our candidates on the basis of nationality, sex, age, religion, disability, or other legally protected statuses.
 

Responsibilities

• Lead/contribute to impactful research projects. 
• Develop new datasets, models, architectures, and algorithms in machine learning.
• Publish scientific articles.
• Demonstrate research outcomes to internal and external users.

Topics

1. Natural Language Understanding 

• Large Language Models 
• Reasoning
• Dialogue Systems
• Text Generation (Conditional Generation & Factual Generation) 
• Curating and building large-scale high-quality datasets/benchmarks

2. Reinforcement Learning

• RL + Language
• Compositional task generalization
• Hierarchical reinforcement learning/planning/imitation learning
• Meta/multi-task/transfer reinforcement learning
• Offline reinforcement learning

3. Multimodal learning

• Vision-language grounding
• Video understanding
• Deep generative models (images, videos, text, etc.)

4. Neural combinatorial optimization

Qualifications

• Motivation to lead/contribute to impactful research ideas. 
• Familiarity with state-of-the-art research topics and methods.
• Proficiency in deep learning frameworks and strong programming skills.
• Nice to have publications in major machine learning conferences.
• Nice to have strong mathematical insights, large-scale modeling experience and a desire to make breakthroughs.

 

Recruiting Process

• Application Review → Coding Test → Technical Interview (Online) 

* This internship is open for students to work during the semester. Please write when you're available to work on your resume (for example, available to work summer 2024 / part-time during spring semester.)
*  The process is subject to change and we will contact you separately if you are selected to move forward with the recruiting process.