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Tax Transparency Report for a Renewable Energy Firm
You are a tax and sustainability consultant. Your task is to draft a tax transparency report for SunPower Europe following GRI 207. The report must include a tax strategy statem…
- Gri 207
- Tax Transparency
- Country By Country Reporting
ESG and Sustainability Reporting - ResearchSeniorNew
Price American Options with a Deep Hedging Notebook
Simulate price paths for a single underlying (geometric Brownian motion is fine as a baseline; bonus for stochastic volatility). Implement Longstaff-Schwartz Monte Carlo as the …
- Deep Learning
- Stochastic Modeling
- Derivatives Pricing
AI and Quantitative Finance - ResearchIntermediateNew
Kernel Methods vs. Deep Learning on a Tiny-Data Drug-Discovery Task
You receive (or download) 3 public ADMET datasets from MoleculeNet (e.g., BBBP, Lipophilicity, FreeSolv). For each, train both: (a) a Gaussian process with a Tanimoto kernel ove…
- Kernel Methods
- Gaussian Processes
- Neural Networks
Advanced Machine Learning - ResearchIntermediateNew
Safety-Test a Customer-Service Agent for Adversarial Prompts
You receive a sandboxed instance of the agent (a tool-using LLM that can read account balances and open support tickets — both mocked). Design a red-team suite of at least 80 pr…
- Ai Agents
- Red Team Operations
- Adversarial Prompts
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Trade Compliance Audit for a UK Fashion Brand Post-Brexit
Your task is to conduct a trade compliance audit for EcoThreads. You will review their import/export documentation, classify goods under the UK Global Tariff and EU Combined Nom…
- Customs Compliance
- Rules Of Origin
- Tariff Classification
International and European Business Law - ResearchSeniorNew
Approximation Algorithm for an SRE On-Call Roster
Formulate the roster as a constrained multi-week assignment problem. Show it's NP-hard via reduction. Design a deterministic constant-factor approximation (likely candidate: an …
- Approximation Algorithms
- Linear Programming
- Np Completeness
Advanced Algorithms - ResearchIntermediateNew
QLoRA Fine-Tune for a Customer-Support Domain Assistant
You receive 8,000 anonymized support ticket pairs (question -> agent response), the company's product documentation (around 600 pages), and a strong RAG baseline already running…
- Qlora
- Fine Tuning
- RAG Architectures
Fine-Tuning Large Language Models - ResearchSeniorNew
Circular Business Model for Sustainable Fashion
You are a business model innovation analyst at EcoWear. Your task is to research and recommend one circular business model (e.g., rental subscription, resale marketplace, or rep…
- Circular Economy
- Business Model Canvas
- Three Statement Modeling
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Frame the business question, model the options, build the recommendation. From market sizing to competitive analysis, this role is where strategy consulting meets in-house decision-making.
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Optimizing Onboarding for a Fintech App
Your task is to analyze the current onboarding flow, identify drop-off points, and propose a redesigned onboarding experience. You will use user behavior data (provided in a sim…
- User Research
- Ux Design
- Data Analysis
Product Management - ResearchIntermediateNew
Run an Alignment Probe on a Coding Assistant
You will design 240 probe prompts across 3 classes: (1) over-refusal (innocuous coding asks the model should fulfill), (2) insecure code patterns (asks where the model should wa…
- Red Team Operations
- Alignment Evaluation
- LLM Evaluation
Large Language Models - ResearchIntermediateNew
Prototype a Normalizing Flow for Anomaly Scoring in Climate Sensor Data
You receive 12 months of multivariate sensor traces (8 channels per sensor, hourly). Train a Normalizing Flow (Real NVP or a small Neural Spline Flow) on a clean training window…
- Normalizing Flows
- Density Estimation
- Anomaly Detection
Deep Generative Models - ResearchSeniorNew
Design a Distributed-Training Strategy for a Mid-Sized LLM
You will write a 5-page design memo that picks a parallelism strategy for fine-tuning a 13B model on 32 H100 GPUs, with a tokens-per-second estimate, a memory-per-GPU calculatio…
- Distributed Training
- Parallelism Strategies
- LLM Training
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Certify Robustness for a Medical-Imaging Classifier
You receive the classifier (a PyTorch ResNet variant) and a 4,000-image labeled validation slice. Apply randomized smoothing (Cohen et al.) at sigma in {0.25, 0.5, 1.0}. Report …
- Certified Robustness
- Randomized Smoothing
- Formal Verification
Trustworthy AI, Robustness, and Safety - ResearchBeginnerNew
Evaluate Speech Synthesis Voices for an EdTech Storyteller App
You will generate 60 audio clips (20 per vendor) covering 4 story genres and 3 emotional tones. Recruit 15 native Spanish speakers via a remote panel (Prolific or local equivale…
- Tts Evaluation
- Listening Studies
- Mos Scoring
Speech Recognition and Spoken Language Processing - ResearchIntermediateNew
Emerging-Tech Scouting Sprint for a Family-Office Innovation Fund
Per sector, map the landscape (around 30 active companies, segment by stage + business model + technical approach). Score companies on a technology-readiness-level (TRL) + comme…
- Emerging Tech Scouting
- Innovation Management
- Venture Thesis
Innovation and Entrepreneurship for CS - ResearchIntermediateNew
Policy-Gradient Trading Agent on Historical Data
You receive 5 years of daily OHLCV (Open/High/Low/Close/Volume) data for 5 large-cap stocks. Build an episodic environment where each episode is one calendar year and the agent'…
- Policy Gradients
- Reinforce
- Rl Evaluation
Reinforcement Learning - ResearchIntermediateNew
Run a Perceptual Study on Color Scales for a Climate Risk Map
Design a remote study (Prolific or similar, 60 participants screened for normal color vision via Ishihara plates online) with 3 task types: (1) value estimation, (2) anomaly det…
- Perceptual Study
- Color Scales
- Experimental Design
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