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 a professor 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 2026 UROP Internship Project Proposals
Click here for the detailed descriptions of the UROP internship projects listed below
| Project Title | Mentors / Sponsors |
|---|---|
|
Making a Car Invisible with an Adversarial Patch |
Prof. Paolo Tonella, Masoud Tehrani |
|
Adversarial Text Command Attacks on Vision-Language-Action Models in Autonomous Driving |
Prof. Paolo Tonella, Masoud Tehrani |
|
Prompt Characteristics Behind Hallucinations in Large Language Models |
Prof. Paolo Tonella, Dr. Nargiz Humbatova |
| Automatically Assessing the Quality of Code Review Comments | Prof. Gabriele Bavota, Dr. Rosalia Tufano, Giuseppe Crupi |
| Smart Glasses and Wearable Sensors for Emotion and Cognitive State Modelling | Dr. Martin Gjoreski, Francesco Bombassei De Bona |
| Data Science for Dynamic Network Modelling | Prof. Ernst C. Wit, Martina Boschi |
| Causal Regularization for Generalized Linear Models | Prof. Ernst C. Wit, Melania Lembo |
|
Approximate Arithmetic Circuits for Energy Efficient Convolutional Neural Networks |
Prof. Laura Pozzi |
| Visualization of high-dimensional data | Prof. Laura Pozzi |
|
SAT-based techniques for Approximate Circuit Design |
Prof. Laura Pozzi |
|
Code generation for high-order multidimensional functions on high-performance hardware |
Dr. Patrick Zulian, Gabriele Marchi |
| TESOR-INNO | Prof. Monica Landoni |
| GENAIPE-GENAI for elderly People | Prof. Monica Landoni |
| Building a Safe Empathic Chatbot: When to Validate Emotions and When to Reframe | Prof. Fabio Crestani, Dr. Ana-Maria Bucur-Cosma |
| Adaptive Personality-Based Chatbot | Prof. Fabio Crestani, Dr. Ana-Maria Bucur-Cosma |
| Auditing Cultural Homogeneity in LLM-Based Depression Simulators | Prof. Fabio Crestani, Dr. Ana-Maria Bucur-Cosma |
| Formal Modeling of Quantum Network Protocols | Prof. Patrick Eugster, Lorenzo La Corte, Anita Buckley |
| Optimization of Quantum Network Protocols | Prof. Patrick Eugster, Lorenzo La Corte, Anita Buckley |
| Visualizing Entanglement Distribution | Prof. Patrick Eugster, Lorenzo La Corte, Anita Buckley |
| Traffic Engineering for Synchronous Datacenter Networking | Prof. Patrick Eugster, Davide Rovelli |
| Implementing a Memory Encryption Engine (MEE) on Reconfigurable Hardware | Prof. Patrick Eugster, Pouria Peykani Sani |
| Secure and Dependable Distributed Graph Processing | Prof. Patrick Eugster, Dr. Shamiek Mangipudi |
| Confidential Stream Processing with WebAssembly in Trusted Execution Environments | Prof. Patrick Eugster, Ali Mohammadpur-Fard |
| GenAI for Hardware Programming? | Prof. Patrick Eugster |
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 students
- Directly contact a project's mentor BEFORE applying
- Application deadline: 25 February 2026 (by the deadline you should already agree with the project's mentor) - to apply please send an email with your favorite projects to [email protected]
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 the exam session (~ July 1st)
- End before the recovery exam session (~ August 31)