Experimental design
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Experimental Design for a Fintech App's Savings Nudge
You are a behavioral data scientist at SaveSmart. Design a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to test the effect of a 'future self' nudge on savings behavior. Define treatment an…
- Experimental Design
- Statistical Analysis
- Nudge Theory
Behavioral Economics - 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…
- Experiment Design
- User Study
- Within Subjects Design
Human-Computer Interaction for AI Systems - 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…
- Transformers
- Rnn
- State Space Models
Open coursework - 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
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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
Open coursework - ResearchSeniorNew
SAT-Based Planner for Smart-Grid Demand Response
Encode the dispatch problem (which customers to curtail by how much, respecting per-customer contractual caps and grid-cell totals) as a SAT or MaxSAT instance. Solve 50 histori…
- Sat Based Planning
- Constraint Encoding
- Benchmarking
Automated Planning - ResearchBeginnerNew
Run a Human-Preference Study Comparing Two Coding Assistants
Design a blinded paired-comparison study: 12 developer participants, each gets the same 8 realistic coding tasks (refactor, write a function, debug, test), each task is solved b…
- Experiment Design
- Statistical Evaluation
- Human Evaluation
AI Measurement and Evaluation - 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
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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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Pitch a Regulatory Sandbox Application for an Edtech AI Product
Read the EU AI Regulation's regulatory-sandbox provisions. Pick a member-state sandbox program (Spain, Norway-as-EEA, or a German-state pilot are publicly documented options) an…
- Regulatory Analysis
- Ai Governance
- Product Strategy
Open coursework - AnalysisSeniorNew
Cost-Quality Prompt Optimization at Scale
You receive 2,000 labeled code snippets (human rater consensus score 1-5) and budget for at most 8,000 API calls across the optimization run. Run a factorial sweep of 3 prompt s…
- Prompt Optimization
- Cost Quality Tradeoff
- Experiment Design
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