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Behavior-Change Design for a Smoking-Cessation Companion App
Audit the current daily loop and map every screen to BCTs from Michie's v1 taxonomy (93 techniques). Identify gaps (likely: weak self-monitoring, missing implementation intentio…
- Behavior Change Design
- Hci Research Methods
- Interaction Design
Advanced Human-Computer Interaction - ResearchSeniorNew
Curriculum RL for a Simulated Drone Inspection Task
You receive a PyBullet-based wind-turbine inspection simulator with parameterizable wind, blade orientation, and sensor noise. Design a 3-stage curriculum: (1) hover near a stat…
- Ppo
- Curriculum Learning
- Deep Rl
Reinforcement Learning - ResearchIntermediateNew
Quantify Distribution Shift for a Climate-Risk Model
You receive the model artifact (a gradient boosted regressor predicting expected annual loss per property), 2010-2020 training data, and a 2021-2024 holdout. Quantify covariate …
- Distribution Shift
- Covariate Shift
- Concept Drift
Trustworthy AI, Robustness, and Safety - ResearchIntermediateNew
Validate a Developer-Tooling Startup Idea from a Research Group
Recruit 18 backend developers across fintech, B2B SaaS, and devtools (6 per vertical), all currently writing test fixtures by hand. Run 30-minute problem-discovery interviews us…
- Opportunity Identification
- Customer Discovery
- Venture Building
Innovation and Entrepreneurship for CS 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
Plan a Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Strategy for a Big-Tech AI Lab
You will produce (1) a 6-page survey of four PEFT methods (LoRA, adapters, prefix tuning, IA3) with their strengths, weaknesses, and parameter footprints, (2) a one-page decisio…
- Parameter Efficient Fine Tuning
- Transfer Learning
- Fine Tuning
Meta-Learning, Transfer Learning, and Multi-Task Learning - ResearchIntermediateNew
Map Knowledge Diffusion in a Global Open-Source Ecosystem
Pull (or use a provided anonymized export of) the last 24 months of commit + PR + issue data for 60 projects in the foundation's portfolio. Build a temporal contributor-project …
- Network Science
- Temporal Networks
- Graph Analysis
Network Science and Computational Social Science - ResearchSeniorNew
Stress-Test Scalable Oversight on a Tool-Using Agent
Design a sandwich-oversight study: pick a task domain where non-expert oversight is plausible but not trivial (e.g., reviewing data-analysis steps, checking small bug fixes, eva…
- Scalable Oversight
- Alignment Research
- Experimental Design
AI Safety and Alignment - ResearchSeniorNew
Implement an Autoregressive Model for Anonymized Voice-Synthesis at a Defense Vendor
You receive a public-domain speech dataset (LibriTTS subset, around 50 speakers) and a fixed evaluation protocol (speaker-identifiability AUC, emotion-preservation MOS proxy, in…
- Autoregressive Models
- Voice Conversion
- Speech Synthesis
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- ResearchIntermediateNew
Train a Physics-Informed Neural Network for Heat Transfer in a Battery Pack
Solve the 2D unsteady heat-conduction equation on a square cell cross-section with a localized source and Dirichlet boundary conditions on the casing. Implement a baseline finit…
- Physics Informed Neural Networks
- Partial Differential Equations
- Pytorch Or Tensorflow
AI for Science and Engineering - ResearchBeginnerNew
Evaluate a Generative AI Image Tool with a Within-Subjects Study
You will write a study protocol, recruit 20 participants (a Discord callout is fine), counterbalance the two conditions, and run 45-minute sessions over Zoom. Collect three meas…
- Experimental Design
- User Study
- Within Subjects Design
Human-Computer Interaction for AI Systems - ResearchIntermediateNew
Evaluate a Knowledge-Graph-Augmented Recommender
You receive permission to use the public MovieLens 1M dataset plus a derived item-KG (movie -> genre, director, decade) built from Wikidata. Train two recommenders: a matrix-fac…
- Knowledge Graph Embeddings
- Recommender Systems
- Benchmarking
Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web - ResearchBeginnerNew
Drug-Repurposing Candidate Screen with Embedding Similarity
You receive (1) a list of 15 known therapeutic candidates (SMILES + ChEMBL identifiers) for a single rare disease, (2) a database of about 4,500 marketed drugs (SMILES + ATC cod…
- Molecular Embeddings
- Similarity Search
- Transfer Learning
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- ResearchSeniorNew
Reproduce a Mechanistic Interpretability Result on a Small Transformer
Pick a published mechanistic-interpretability paper that operates on a small (under 1 billion parameter) open-source transformer (e.g., GPT-2 small, Pythia 70M). Set up the envi…
- Mechanistic Interpretability
- Transformer Internals
- Pytorch Or Tensorflow
AI Safety and Alignment - ResearchSeniorNew
Frame Dependence in Investment Decisions for a Renewable Energy Fund
You are a behavioral finance analyst at GreenCap Partners. Your task is to audit past investment decisions for framing effects, then design a decision template that forces consi…
- Frame Dependence
- Prospect Theory
- Decision Framing
Behavioural Finance - ResearchBeginnerNew
Comparative Usability Test of Three Checkout Flows for a DTC Brand
Build 3 clickable Figma prototypes of the same checkout (same product, same fields, same copy) in single-page, three-step, and side-drawer patterns. Recruit 9 participants match…
- Usability Testing
- User Research
- Comparative Evaluation
Human-Computer Interaction - ResearchBeginnerNew
Hyperparameter Search via CMA-ES for a Pharma QSAR Model
You receive a labeled QSAR dataset (around 25,000 compounds, regression on a binding-affinity target), a fixed feature pipeline (Morgan fingerprints + descriptors), and the team…
- Cma Es
- Metaheuristics
- Hyperparameter Optimization
Evolutionary Computation and Metaheuristic Search - ResearchSeniorNew
Investigate Why Our Generative Model Memorizes Training Data
Pick a small open-source diffusion model (e.g., a Stable-Diffusion-class community model trained on LAION-subset). Reproduce a published membership-inference + extraction probe …
- Generative Models
- Memorization Analysis
- Differential Privacy
Advanced Deep Learning - ResearchSeniorNew
Business Cycle Positioning for a Renewable Energy Firm
You are an economic analyst at SunVista. The CFO needs a report on the current and expected Eurozone business cycle to guide the timing of a €500M investment in new solar capaci…
- Business Cycle Analysis
- Macroeconomic Forecasting
- Investment Timing
Global Economy and Macroeconomics for Managers - ResearchSeniorNew
Exiting a Sustainable Fashion Venture: IPO or Acquisition?
Analyze the financial and strategic merits of an IPO vs. acquisition for EcoThreads. Consider market conditions, valuation multiples, liquidity, and post-exit growth. Prepare a …
- Exit Strategy
- IPO Readiness
- Mergers And Acquisitions
Venture Capital and Entrepreneurial Finance - ResearchSeniorNew
Train Cooperative Agents with Multi-Agent RL
Pick an open multi-agent environment (PettingZoo's MPE 'simple_spread', Overcooked-AI, or SMAC). Implement or wrap three methods: IPPO (independent PPO per agent), MAPPO (centra…
- Multi Agent Reinforcement Learning
- Ppo
- Pytorch Or Tensorflow
Multi-Agent Systems - ResearchBeginnerNew
Case-Study Analysis of a Public AI Incident
Pick one public AI incident (suggestions: a chatbot's harmful response that went viral, a facial-recognition false-arrest case, a financial-model bias scandal). Produce a 6-page…
- Incident Analysis
- Responsible Ai
- Case Study Research
AI Ethics, Fairness, and Responsible AI - ResearchIntermediateNew
Explore the Bias-Variance Trade-off on a Tabular Healthcare Cohort
You receive a 90,000-patient anonymized de-identified tabular dataset (demographics, labs, claims-derived features) and a binary 12-month-readmission outcome. Pick three model f…
- Bias Variance Tradeoff
- Regularization
- Model Selection
Machine Learning - ResearchIntermediateNew
Train a NeRF for Real-Estate Virtual Tours
You receive a curated dataset of 3 apartments, each with around 120 input images and known camera poses (already SfM-processed). Train a NeRF variant (Instant-NGP or Nerfacto re…
- Neural Scene Representation
- Nerf
- Pytorch Or Tensorflow
3D Vision and Multi-View Geometry - ResearchIntermediateNew
Seminar: Future of AI Visibility — How Brands Get Cited by ChatGPT
Research the emerging field of AI visibility / Generative Engine Optimization (GEO). Your deliverables: (1) Literature review covering at least 5 academic papers and 10 industry…
- Online Marketing
- Digital Innovation
- Academic Writing
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