Summer jobs in IT research groups (deadline February 29th 2016)
Summer jobs in computer science research are waiting for students. Several salaried research assistant positions are available in a range of research projects.
There are jobs available for computer science and information technology students. In some projects there are also jobs available for students of mathematics, statistics,
language technology or linguistics.
The research assistant positions are typically filled for periods between May and September, the exact start and end date depending on individual negotiations.
Jobs are available at:
Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Kumpula
University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science
Successful applicants are required to have Bachelor’s degree or gained around 150 credits from their studies – on the Bachelor level - to be interested in research work and to be active in contributing to the projects.
Applicants should submit a web form at
https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/68172/lomake.html
Applicants must upload a transcript (list of passed exams and courses) and optionally a one-page curriculum vitae with the application form. The deadline for applications is February 29th 2016.
Research assistant positions are available in the following areas:
Automated linguistic analysis and creativity
Hannu Toivonen, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi
The Discovery research group carries out research in the areas of computational creativity and data mining. We are now looking for a trainee to join our two projects related to linguistic analysis and creativity, both funded by the Academy of Finland. The ideal candidate will have a background in computer science as well as in language technology or linguistics, and a keen interest into studying computational creativity. More information on Discovery research group: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/en/discovery.
BCDC - Bright Clouds, Dark Clouds
Jussi Kangasharju, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/jakangas/SummerIntern2016.txt
Constraints, SAT, optimization, exact search algorithms for NP-hard problems
Matti Järvisalo, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi
Positions are available for both CS and math students; we are looking for talented students interested in putting their skills to the test at top-level research, either with a CS background, especially in algorithms or machine learning; strong implementation skills; or a math background, especially in logic or complexity. Application areas include graphical models, structure discovery, argumentation theory, algorithmic decision theory.
http://www.hiit.fi/cosco/coreo/
Gene regulatory models
Esko Ukkonen, Jarkko Toivonen firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/lmsalmel/summer2016.html
Graphical models, Bayesian learning, approximate inference for high-dimensional models
Jukka Corander, firstname.lastname@helsinki.fi
Positions also available for mathematics and statistics students.
Intelligent systems, machine learning, Big Data
Petri Myllymäki, Teemu Roos, firstname.lastname@hiit.fi
The work will be done in the Complex Systems Computation Research Group (www.hiit.fi/cosco), which is part of the Finnish Center of Excellence in Computational Inference (www.hiit.fi/coin).
Multi-source probabilistic inference
Arto Klami, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi
https://www.hiit.fi/cosco/mupi
Position available also for statistics students.
Open Source Software development in Lokki project
Programming tasks in the Lokki project for research needs
Tomi Männistö, Fabian Fagerholm, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi
Lokki is a secure location sharing service for closed groups. It was originally developed by F-Secure Corporation, but was released as Open Source at the end of 2014. The Department of Computer Science has developed Lokki further as an Open Source Project through the Software Factory education and research laboratory. The application was released on Google Play store in 2015. Summer job workers will develop Lokki as a testbed for research on software service development. Tasks include bug fixing, feature development, and changes to the Lokki architecture, to enable flexible service development based on different kinds of user feedback. Applicants are expected to have some familiarity with GitHub, Node.js, Heroku, Travis CI, and Android app development. Also, applicants are expected to have an interest in exploring the relationship between users' wishes and requirements and their technical implementation. The summer job position may also include other tasks related to ongoing research in the Empirical Software Engineering Helsinki research group
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/group/ese/
Parallel Lempel-Ziv decompression
Simon Puglisi, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi
Privacy-aware probabilistic modelling
Onur Dikmen, Antti Honkela, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi
http://www.hiit.fi/u/ahonkela/summer2016.html
Probabilistic modelling for bacterial strain identification
Antti Honkela, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi
http://www.hiit.fi/u/ahonkela/summer2016.html
Summer job available for the RAGE project
Matti Luukkainen, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/en/rage/
Summer job available for the Re:Know project
Mats Sjöberg or Markus Koskela, firstname.lastname@hiit.fi
As part of the Re:Know project a Digital Me platform is already partially operational.
see Digital Me server at http://www.reknow.fi/results/software. The work would
include design and implementation of further loggers and other DiMe related work.
Robot journalism
Hannu Toivonen, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi
The Discovery research group carries out research in the areas of computational creativity and data mining. We are now looking for a trainee to join our new efforts in the direction of robot journalism, i.e., automated production of reports from given data. The ideal candidate will have background and interest in some combination of text mining/data mining/machine learning, natural language processing/language technology, linguistics, and coding/software. Due to national collaboration, the primary language is Finnish. More information on Discovery research group: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/en/discovery.
Software tools for DNA sequencing
Esko Ukkonen, Leena Salmela, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/lmsalmel/summer2016.html
WiFiUS: Ubiquitous Video over Dynamic Spectrum
Jussi Kangasharju, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/jakangas/SummerIntern2016.txt