Summer 2019 UROP Internship Project Proposals
Click here for the detalied descriptions of the UROP internship projects listed below.
| Project Description |
Mentors / Sponsors |
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| Code generation for numerical quadrature on parallel multiprocessors for finite element simulations |
Prof. Rolf Krause, Dr. Patrick Zulian |
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| Extreme Testing of Self Driving Cars |
Prof. Paolo Tonella, Dr. Andrea Stocco |
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| Parallel Ethereum: Blockchain on Steroids |
Prof. Fernando Pedone, Enrique Fynn |
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| Computational methods for finding the range, roots, and extrema of a function |
Prof. Kai Hormann |
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| Data Analytics System for Improving Mobile Sensing Studies |
Prof. Silvia Santini, Elena Di Lascio, Shkurta Gashi |
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| Real-time Feedback for Smartphone and Smartwatch Users |
Prof. Silvia Santini, Elena Di Lascio, Shkurta Gashi |
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| Synthesis of Digital Drawing Strokes |
Prof. Piotr Didyk |
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| Towards optimal content generation for novel displays |
Prof. Piotr Didyk |
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| Eye-tracking Procedure for Training Visibility Metrics |
Prof. Piotr Didyk |
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| Transforming Fairy Tales into Narratives for Video Games |
Dr. Monica Landoni |
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| Picture-in-Picture detection with Neural Networks |
Dr. Davide Eynard |
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| Geometric Deep Learning for Anomaly/intrusion detection |
Dr. Davide Eynard |
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In general, if you are interested in working in a specific research group, even one not mentioned above, please contact the corresponding professor directly.
Eligibility and Application Deadline
- USI Informatics Bachelor or Master student
- Directly contact a project's mentor to apply (see names above)
- Application deadline: Sunday, March 31, 2019 (by the deadline you should already agree with the project's mentor) - send your application to mauro.prevostini@usi.ch
Acceptance and Funding
- Funded by the Faculty of Informatics
- Only a limited number of grants available
- Acceptance is competitive
- Decision is taken by the Dean
Duration and Dates of Internship
- Roughly 2 months
- Start after exam period (~ July 1st)
- End before recovery exam period (~ August 31)
