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- ResearchSeniorNew
Embodied Visual Reasoning for a Warehouse Pick Assistant
Use an embodied simulator (Habitat 3.0 or Isaac Sim — pick one and justify) to render 300 cluttered-bin scenarios with a target item label. For each scenario, build two reasonin…
- Embodied Vision
- Vision Language Models
- Visual Reasoning
Visual Intelligence and Visual Reasoning - ResearchIntermediateNew
Reproduce a Vision-Model Paper Under a Reproducibility Standard
Pick a vision-model paper from CVPR or NeurIPS 2024-2025 with publicly available code and a manageable compute footprint (single-GPU under 24 hours). Reproduce the headline metr…
- Reproducibility
- Experimental Design
- Model Evaluation
AI Measurement and Evaluation - ResearchSeniorNew
Audit a Production Model for Membership Inference Attacks
Use a black-box membership inference attack (e.g., the LiRA or shadow-model attack). You have query access to a sandboxed copy of the model + the original training data labels f…
- Membership Inference
- Privacy Attacks
- Model Evaluation
Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning - ResearchIntermediateNew
Evaluate VAEs vs. Diffusion for Synthetic Tabular-Data Generation
You receive a real labeled dataset (around 18,000 anonymized patient records, 32 features, binary outcome) and the team's existing VAE baseline. Train a tabular diffusion model …
- Tabular Diffusion
- Vae
- Synthetic Data
Generative AI 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.
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- ResearchSeniorNew
Compare NewSQL Architectures for a Real-Time Inventory Platform
Study the architecture papers and documentation for CockroachDB (its Spanner-inspired multi-active design), TiDB (Raft + multi-Raft + TiKV + TiDB SQL layer), and Spanner (TrueTi…
- Newsql
- Distributed Databases
- Raft
Advanced Database Systems - ResearchIntermediateNew
Audit Recommender Filter Bubbles for a Civic Forum
You receive 90 days of impression logs (about 30 million recommendation events) tagged with content viewpoint labels (left-leaning, center, right-leaning, non-political) from an…
- Recommender Evaluation
- Diversity Metrics
- Audit Methodology
Social Network Analysis and Web Science - ResearchIntermediateNew
Reward Shaping for a Quadruped Locomotion Policy
You receive a quadruped locomotion environment (Isaac Lab or pybullet-quadruped), the previous reward function (5 terms), and a budget of 6 training runs. Design 4 reward varian…
- Reward Shaping
- Ppo
- Locomotion
Robot Learning - ResearchIntermediateNew
Competitive Intelligence for a Sustainable Fashion Brand
As a competitive intelligence analyst, investigate the sustainability claims of top fast-fashion competitors (e.g., H&M, Zara). Use public data (reports, websites, news) to asse…
- Competitive Intelligence
- Sustainability Analysis
- Strategic Communication
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Marketing Analyst
Plan and measure campaigns that grow the business. Funnel analytics, attribution, segmentation, and the rigorous measurement that lets marketing defend its budget at the leadership table.
- ResearchIntermediateNew
Build a Generalization-Bound Tutorial for an MLE Onboarding Track
You will produce a Jupyter-notebook tutorial covering (1) sample-complexity intuition, (2) VC-dimension with worked examples for halfspaces and decision stumps, (3) Rademacher c…
- Statistical Learning Theory
- VC Dimension
- Rademacher Complexity
Statistical Machine Learning - ResearchSeniorNew
Solve a POMDP for a Healthtech Diagnostic Pathway
You receive a simplified pathway: 5 possible underlying conditions, 8 possible diagnostic tests each with documented sensitivity and specificity, and an outcome payoff matrix fr…
- Pomdp Modeling
- Belief States
- Approximate Solvers
Decision Making Under Uncertainty - ResearchSeniorNew
Diffusion-Policy Imitation for Bimanual Cooking Tasks
You receive 300 teleoperated demonstrations of a bimanual pour-and-stir task in a Robomimic-style simulator, deliberately including 2 valid solution modes per task (left-pour-ri…
- Diffusion Policies
- Imitation Learning
- Multimodal Action Distributions
Robot Learning - ResearchSeniorNew
Probabilistic Numerics for an ODE-Constrained Battery Model
You receive 12 months of charge/discharge cycle data for 50 battery packs from a delivery-van fleet, plus the existing single-particle ODE degradation model (Python). Use a prob…
- Probabilistic Numerics
- Bayesian Inference
- Ode Modeling
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- ResearchFoundationalNew
Academic Writing: The Impact of AI on Small Business Marketing
Produce a 3,000-word academic essay following APA 7th edition formatting. Structure: Introduction with clear thesis statement, Literature Review (minimum 8 peer-reviewed sources…
- Academic Writing
- Business Administration
- Online Marketing
Open coursework - ResearchSeniorNew
Benchmark Reward-from-Feedback Methods on a Tabletop Pick-Place
You will use a Franka Panda arm in PyBullet on a 4-object pick-and-place task. For each of the three feedback methods, train a reward model and a downstream policy until converg…
- Reinforcement Learning
- Reward Learning
- Preference Comparison
Human-Robot Interaction - ResearchIntermediateNew
Conjoint Analysis for Sustainable Fashion Brand
You will design a choice-based conjoint (CBC) survey with 4 attributes (price, material, color options, warranty) each with 3-4 levels. You must collect responses from at least …
- Conjoint Analysis
- Survey Design
- Multinomial Logit
Marketing Analytics - ResearchIntermediateNew
Neuro-Symbolic Question Answering on an Enterprise Knowledge Graph
You receive a curated Turtle-format knowledge graph (around 2 million triples covering organizational structure, products, projects), 200 labeled question-SPARQL pairs split 140…
- Neuro Symbolic
- Sparql
- Knowledge Graphs
Fuzzy Logic, Knowledge Representation, and Symbolic Reasoning - ResearchSeniorNew
Long-Context QA Evaluation Benchmark for Legal Memoranda
You receive 25 anonymized legal memoranda (50-90 pages each) and 100 QA pairs whose answers are deliberately spread across the documents (25 in pages 1-20, 25 in pages 20-40, 25…
- Long Context Qa
- Benchmark Design
- Model Evaluation
Question Answering and Conversational Systems - ResearchBeginnerNew
Stakeholder Interviews for a Hospital EHR Replacement
Run 38 structured interviews (45 min each) using a question protocol covering daily workflows, top-3 pain points, and red-line constraints (e.g., 'must not add clicks per chart'…
- Stakeholder Mapping
- Requirements Elicitation
- User Interviews
Requirements Engineering - ResearchSeniorNew
DPO Preference-Tune a Code Assistant for Style Compliance
You receive a 7B coding base model, a client's published code-style guide (Python, around 80 pages), and a generated preference dataset (4,000 pairs of code snippets where one m…
- Dpo
- Preference Optimization
- Fine Tuning
Fine-Tuning Large Language Models - ResearchSeniorNew
Diagnose Levers of Control at a Stockholm Fintech
Conduct a Levers of Control diagnostic of the chosen fintech. Build evidence from at least 30 public artifacts (job ads, leadership interviews, Glassdoor reviews, regulatory fil…
- Levers Of Control
- Qualitative Research
- Contingency Theory
Advanced Management Accounting & Control - ResearchIntermediateNew
Planning Under Uncertainty for a Last-Mile Delivery Fleet
Build a simulator of the 50-block area with stochastic travel times conditioned on weather and time-of-day. Implement value iteration (for a small state space), MCTS (Monte Carl…
- Planning Under Uncertainty
- Markov Decision Processes
- Monte Carlo Tree Search
Automated Planning - ResearchIntermediateNew
Annual Report Teardown: Zalando vs. ASOS for an Equity Note
Download the latest annual reports for Zalando SE and ASOS plc from their investor relations pages and build a side-by-side analysis covering: (1) structure and quality of the i…
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Ratio Analysis
- IFRS Interpretation
Financial Accounting - ResearchBeginnerNew
Cybercrime-Economy Brief for an Anonymized Insurance Underwriter
Synthesize open-source intelligence from CISA advisories, public vendor reports (CrowdStrike, Mandiant, Recorded Future), darknet-market trackers, and the Ransomware Live tracke…
- Threat Intelligence
- Cybercrime Economy
- Ransomware
Cyber-Physical and Cybercrime Topics - ResearchIntermediateNew
Tune a PPO Policy for an Energy-Storage Trading Bot
You receive 18 months of 15-minute Nordic spot-price data, a battery dynamics model (capacity, round-trip efficiency, degradation curve), and a rule-based baseline that earns ab…
- Policy Gradients
- Ppo
- Reinforcement Learning
Deep Reinforcement Learning
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