Research summer internships for students - UROP Internships
The Faculty of Informatics encourages and promotes the talent of its Bachelor and Master students by offering them summer internships in academic research within the programme Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program - UROP.
Internships are extracurricular and access is on a competitive basis. Students work one-on-one with an advisor to develop a deeper understanding of both the concepts taught during the semester and of the research topic. Students that are considering continuing in academia should seriously consider applying for a UROP position.
All research opportunities for this year are listed below (information available in English only).
Summer 2021 UROP Internship Project Proposals
Click here for the detailed descriptions of the UROP internship projects listed below.
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| Zero-Knowledge Systematization of Knowledge: Getting Blockchain Ready for Quantum Computers | Dr. Cecilia Boschini, Prof. Stefan Wolf | |
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Quantum-safe Messaging: Security Assessment of the Signal Messaging App |
Dr. Cecilia Boschini, Prof. Stefan Wolf |
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Code transformation engine for the high-performance computing library utopia |
Prof. Dr. Rolf Krause, Dr. Patrick Zulian, Alena Kopanicakova |
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GANs for solving PDEs with random data |
Prof. Michael Multerer, Wei Huang |
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Robust Sleep Detection Using Mobile and Wearable Devices |
Prof. Dr. Silvia Santini, Shkurta Gashi, Elena Di Lascio |
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Personal Informatics System Using Earbuds: Feedback Component |
Prof. Dr. Silvia Santini, Shkurta Gashi, Elena Di Lascio |
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Development of an Ethereum blockchain replayer |
Dr. Pierre-Louis Roman, Prof. Patrick Eugster |
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Routing algorithms and attacks on blockchain payment networks |
Dr. Pierre-Louis Roman, Prof. Patrick Eugster |
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Programming Language for Reactive Distributed Monitoring |
Dr. Pavel Chuprikov, Prof. Patrick Eugster |
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Cost-based Mechanism Selection for Secure Cloud Computing |
Dr. Pavel Chuprikov, Prof. Patrick Eugster |
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Evaluating the Use of Native Code in JVM Languages and Frameworks |
Prof. Walter Binder, Dr. Andrea Rosà |
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FACILE: Analyzing and enhancing text comprehension in the Italian language |
Dr. Monica Landoni, Leandro Guedes |
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+ACCESS: Designing accessible solutions for people with disabilities |
Dr. Monica Landoni, Leandro Guedes |
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Multisensory experiences at museums: mixing visual experiences with audio and tangible user interfaces |
Dr. Monica Landoni, Leandro Guedes |
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DIES - Design and implementation of emoji enriched interfaces for search engines to help children searching in the classroom |
Dr. Monica Landoni, Sveva Valguarnera |
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Choose Your Own Adventure: design and implementation of a Web and/or Mobile Gamebook app for preschool children |
Dr. Monica Landoni, Sveva Valguarnera |
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Reading Buddy: design and implementation of a voice-activated ChatBot to support caregiver-child dialogic reading |
Dr. Monica Landoni, Sveva Valguarnera |
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Defects4DL: A Database of Real Faults in DL Systems |
Prof. Paolo Tonella, Dr. Gunel Jahangirova, Nargiz Humbatova |
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Developing Self-Driving Car Autopilots using Reinforcement Learning Algorithms |
Prof. Paolo Tonella, Dr. Matteo Biagiola, Dr. Andrea Stocco |
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Learning Algebra with Programming Language Concepts |
Prof. Matthias Hauswrith |
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Expression Misconceptions in Multiple Languages |
Prof. Matthias Hauswrith |
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Type Checking and Inference |
Prof. Matthias Hauswrith |
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Semi-automatic Videos for Programming Language Misconceptions |
Prof. Matthias Hauswrith |
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Expression Tree Data Analysis and Visualization |
Prof. Matthias Hauswrith |
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Unsupervised Machine Learning Methods for Aspect Extraction in Information Retrieval |
Prof. Fabio Crestani |
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Deep Neural Models for Natural Language Understanding in Conversational Search |
Prof. Fabio Crestani |
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Improving Computational Efficiency in Inference of Evolutionary Processes |
Prof. Ernst-Jan Camiel Wit |
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: 25 February 2021 (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)
