Data Scientist Intern

Position Overview

Graduate internships at Autodesk will explore new areas of technology and help both Autodesk and the academic community understand how emerging technologies can be leveraged to improve creation and design processes. In the context of Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC), it is crucial to emphasize the importance of representing uncertainty in emergent AI systems.

Understanding and communicating the uncertainty inherent in AI predictions and decisions can significantly enhance the reliability and trustworthiness of AI applications in this field.

Over the course of the internship, you will drive a project within a multidisciplinary team comprising HCI & Visualization experts, AEC designers/engineers, and materials scientists. With guidance from your mentor(s), this project will cover implementation, experimental validation, data analysis, and more. Specific areas of interest for research projects include Information Visualization, Tools, and User Interfaces for generative AI or Machine Learning systems.

Responsibilities

• Support the research and design efforts by developing software prototypes
• Conduct literature reviews
• Gather requirements and issues to explore and design
• Develop algorithms
• Design and implement prototypes to test and explore concepts
• Conduct usability studies, ethnographic studies, heuristic evaluations, task analyses, structured interviews and surveys to test research ideas and hypotheses.
• Evaluate research findings and prototypes to make recommendations for impacting business and products.
• Explore new prototyping frameworks and technologies
• Author a full research paper
• Produce an accompanying research video
• Present the results of your research externally and internally

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in an MSc or PhD program in Computer Science or related field, with a specialization in Human-Computer Interaction, and at least one academic term to complete post internship
• Demonstrated expertise in the area of interactive technologies and/or uncertainty-related statistical visualization, with peer-reviewed publications on the topic in international venues.
• Strong communication skills and teamwork experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Very strong technical skills in building software prototypes
• Experience with modern generative AI tools and frameworks (e.g., GPT, Llama, Stable Diffusion, ComfyUI)
• Experience with coding in D3 or similar data visualization libraries
• Rapid prototyping+
• Background in Statistics (i.e., computational probability)

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