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- ResearchSeniorNew
Neuromarketing Audit for a Sustainable Fashion Retailer
Your team will design and simulate a neuromarketing experiment. First, propose two alternative store layouts (e.g., circular vs. grid) and two website homepage designs (e.g., he…
- Neuromarketing
- Experimental Design
- Eye Tracking Analysis
Consumer Behavior - ResearchBeginnerNew
Curate a Domain Lexicon for a Climate-Tech NLP Stack
You receive 5,000 policy documents and a benchmark of 200 documents with manually tagged domain terms. Curate a lexicon of ~1,500 terms with (1) canonical English form, (2) Swah…
- Lexical Resources
- Named Entity Recognition
- Spacy
Linguistic Engineering and Language Technologies - ResearchBeginnerNew
Run a Product Discovery Sprint for a Vertical SaaS in Logistics
Recruit 8 dispatchers across 5 freight-forwarder customers (intro emails will be facilitated). Run 30-minute interviews using the Opportunity-Solution Tree (a tree-shaped diagra…
- Product Discovery
- User Interviews
- Opportunity Solution Tree
Product Management for Software Engineers - ResearchIntermediateNew
Red-Team a Customer-Service Chatbot for Jailbreak Resistance
Use a published taxonomy of jailbreak categories (prompt injection, persona override, encoded payloads, multi-turn escalation, refusal bypass, tool-misuse). For each category, d…
- Red Team Operations
- Jailbreak Analysis
- LLM Evaluation
AI Safety and Alignment Practice your coursework on real scenarios.
Every challenge is shaped from real-world context — not generic exercises. The work mirrors what your degree prepares you for.
Why Ewance
- ResearchSeniorNew
Navigating US-China Tech Decoupling for a Semiconductor Startup
Students will produce a geopolitical risk assessment and strategic response plan for ChipBridge. The plan must include a supply chain vulnerability analysis, a compliance roadma…
- Supply Chain Risk
- Export Control Compliance
- Geopolitical Analysis
Geopolitics for Business - ResearchSeniorNew
Buying Behavior Analysis for a Dutch Sustainable Packaging Startup
Your task is to investigate the B2B buying process for sustainable packaging. You will design a semi-structured interview guide based on the buying center framework. Recruit and…
- B2B Marketing
- Buying Behavior
- Qualitative Research
Business-to-Business Marketing - ResearchSeniorNew
Benchmark Conformal Prediction for a Healthcare Risk-Score
You receive a labeled dataset of about 25,000 patient encounters with the current risk-score's predictions and ground-truth 1-year outcomes. Implement and compare split conforma…
- Conformal Prediction
- Uncertainty Quantification
- Calibration
Statistical Machine Learning - ResearchFoundationalNew
Ethical Stress Test of an AI Tutoring Startup
Produce a concise ethical risk register and stakeholder impact analysis grounded in publicly available evidence about AI tutors (e.g., Khanmigo studies, UNESCO AI in education g…
- Risk Assessment
- Stakeholder Mapping
- Ai Ethics
AI, Ethics and Society - Browse challenges
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Ship product that solves real user problems. Combine user research, prototyping, and stakeholder alignment to turn ambiguous briefs into measurable wins — the role at the centre of modern software teams.
- ResearchSeniorNew
Inductive Logic Programming for a Fraud-Rule Discovery Pilot
You receive a labeled fraud dataset (around 25,000 transactions, around 4% positive class), a feature schema (28 features including device, geo, behavioral history), and a basel…
- Inductive Logic Programming
- Symbolic Ai
- Rule Learning
Fuzzy Logic, Knowledge Representation, and Symbolic Reasoning - ResearchIntermediateNew
Industrial Case Study: Why a Microservices Migration Failed
Conduct 8 1-hour interviews across CTO, 3 tech leads, 2 platform engineers, 1 SRE, and the product VP. Analyze 24 months of artifacts (ADRs, RFCs, incident reports, deployment d…
- Industrial Case Study
- Qualitative Research
- Software Architecture
Advanced Software Engineering - ResearchSeniorNew
Train a Small Diffusion Model for Synthetic Defect Generation
You receive 2,000 labeled defect images and 18,000 clean weld images. Train a small class-conditional latent diffusion model on the defect images (Hugging Face diffusers is fine…
- Generative Perception
- Diffusion Models
- Data Augmentation
Machine Perception - ResearchIntermediateNew
Build Saliency-Map Explanations for Dermatology Triage
You receive a trained CNN (ResNet-50 backbone, 7-class lesion classifier) and a 1,000-image held-out test set with dermatologist labels. Implement Integrated Gradients, GradCAM,…
- Saliency Maps
- Integrated Gradients
- Gradcam
Explainable and Interpretable AI Build a verifiable portfolio.
Submissions become evidence. Reviewers with shipping experience score against a rubric; the result becomes a credential anyone can verify.
Why Ewance
- ResearchFoundationalNew
Business Cycle Positioning for a Renewable Energy Firm
Your task is to analyze current business cycle indicators for Italy (GDP growth, unemployment, consumer confidence, interest rates) and the specific impact on residential solar …
- Business Cycle Analysis
- Leading Indicators
- Demand Forecasting
Macroeconomics - ResearchIntermediateNew
Observational Research for a Quick-Service Restaurant Chain
Your task is to design an observational research study for BiteBox. Define key metrics (e.g., order time, wait time, accuracy). Observe a BiteBox drive-thru for 2 hours during p…
- Observational Research
- Time Motion Study
- Customer Journey Mapping
Marketing Research - ResearchSeniorNew
Compare RNN vs Transformer for Long-Sequence Modeling
Pick a public trajectory dataset (e.g., Argoverse 2, Waymo Open, or ETH-UCY). Implement three models with comparable parameter counts (around 5M each): an LSTM baseline, a vanil…
- Hugging Face Transformers
- Rnn
- State Space Models
Neural Networks for NLP - ResearchSeniorNew
Foresight-Driven Innovation for a Renewable Energy Co-op
You are a foresight analyst for WindFolk. Develop three alternative futures for the Danish energy market in 2030 (e.g., 'Green Grid', 'Tech Fragmentation', 'Policy Stagnation').…
- Scenario Planning
- Three Statement Modeling
- Decision Analysis
Strategic Foresight and Decision-Making - ResearchIntermediateNew
Fine-Tune a Vision-Language Model for Image Captioning
Take BLIP-2 or LLaVA-1.6 as the base. Fine-tune (LoRA is fine) on a 4,000-image accessibility-curated dataset where each image has a useful caption written by a low-vision-exper…
- Vision Language Models
- Fine Tuning
- Pytorch Or Tensorflow
Multimodal Machine Learning - ResearchSeniorNew
Validate a Foundation Model for Protein-Ligand Docking Acceleration
Pick 20 publicly available protein-ligand complexes from the PDBbind dataset (or similar public source). Use a published open-source structural foundation model (e.g., a Boltz-s…
- Foundation Model Evaluation
- Structural Biology
- Model Validation
AI for Science and Engineering - ResearchSeniorNew
Model-Based RL for a Robotic Arm Pick-Place Task
You receive a PyBullet pick-and-place environment (Franka Panda arm, 12 object types, randomized starting poses) and a SAC baseline that hits 85% success after about 1.5 million…
- Model Based Rl
- World Models
- Reinforcement Learning
Deep Reinforcement Learning - ResearchBeginnerNew
Build an Accessibility Checklist for a Voice Health Assistant
You receive 20 audio samples spanning accents and speech patterns, the assistant's published dialog state machine, and a list of current voice prompts. Audit the assistant for i…
- Accessibility (Wcag 2.2)
- Interaction Design
- Evaluation
Human-Computer Interaction for AI Systems - ResearchSeniorNew
Trajectory Prediction Model for Urban Robotaxis
Use the Argoverse 2 motion-forecasting dataset (open access). Train an LSTM baseline + a transformer challenger (e.g., a small Wayformer or HiVT). Evaluate on minADE/minFDE (min…
- Trajectory Prediction
- Transformer Models
- Evaluation
AI for Autonomous Vehicles - ResearchSeniorNew
Quantify Sim-to-Real Gap for a Warehouse Manipulation Policy
You receive a trained pick-and-place policy (PyTorch), the simulation env (Isaac Lab), and access to a real-arm rig (or recorded teleop episodes if hardware is unavailable). Def…
- Sim To Real
- Manipulation
- Experimental Design
Robot Perception and Autonomy - ResearchSeniorNew
Cross-Cultural Redesign of a Microfinance App for 4 Markets
Run remote contextual inquiry with 4 users each in Kenya + Indonesia (8 sessions total via local interpreters). Conduct expert reviews with native designers for Philippines + In…
- Cross Cultural Design
- User Research
- Contextual Inquiry
Advanced Human-Computer Interaction - ResearchBeginnerNew
Designing Comfortable VR Locomotion for a Mobile Game Studio
Build a Unity test harness on Quest 3 with one short forest level and 3 toggleable locomotion modes (smooth with vignette, teleport, dash). Recruit 18 playtesters (mix of VR-exp…
- Vr Development
- Immersive Design
- Usability Testing
Virtual and Mixed Reality
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