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 2020 UROP Internship Project Proposals
Click here for the detailed descriptions of the UROP internship projects listed below.
| Project Description | Mentors / Sponsors | |
|---|---|---|
| Analyzing Missed Optimization Opportunities in Dynamic Compilers | Prof. Walter Binder, Dr. Andrea Rosà | |
| Profiling and Analyzing Contention in Parallel Applications | Prof. Walter Binder, Dr. Andrea Rosà | |
| Visualizing a Digital Library Interface | Prof. Fabio Crestani | |
|
Python front-end for Utopia, a C++ library for parallel scientific computing |
Prof. Rolf Krause, Dr. Patrick Zulian, Alena Kopanicakova | |
| Contract-aware test-case generation | Prof. Carlo A. Furia, Dr. Andrea Mocci | |
| Automatic Pest Insect Image Classification | Prof. Cesare Alippi, Dr. Alberto Ferrante | |
| An Improved Ear-Training Application for Musicians | Dr. Roberto Minelli | |
| Luce Research Lab | Prof. Matthias Hauswirth | |
| Sensor-Based Personal Assistant to Promote Self-Learners’ Engagement | Prof. Silvia Santini, Elena Di Lascio, Shkurta Gashi | |
| Laughter Recognition Using Earbuds | Prof. Silvia Santini, Elena Di Lascio, Shkurta Gashi | |
| Developing an Interactive Tool to Allow Human Control in MLS Testing | Prof. Paolo Tonella, Michael Weiss | |
| Mutation Testing of Deep Drone | Prof. Paolo Tonella, Dr. Gunel Jahangirova, Nargiz Humbatova | |
| Oracle Improvement for Self-Driving Cars | Prof. Paolo Tonella, Dr. Gunel Jahangirova | |
| Repairing Self-Driving Cars Autopilots | Prof. Paolo Tonella, Dr. Andrea Stocco | |
| What Self Driving Car Simulator Should I Use? A Comparative Study | Prof. Paolo Tonella, Dr. Andrea Stocco, Dr. Vincenzo Riccio | |
| Federated Learning of Human Mobility | Prof. Marc Langheinrich | |
| Physiological Synchrony and its Effects on Recall in Peer Meetings | Prof. Marc Langheinrich, Matias Laporte | |
| A new revolutionary product and its commercialization | Prof. Fabio Crestani | |
| Graph Series Analysis of Connected Systems with Geometric Deep Learning | Prof. Rolf Krause, Prof. Alessandro Lomi | |
| Analysis of Image Quality Perception from Brain Waves | Prof. Piotr Didyk, Dr. Okan Tursun | |
| Massively parallel power grid computations | Prof. Olaf Schenk, Juraj Kardos |
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: Tuesday, 25 February 2020 (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)
