We are seeking graduate students interested in helping advance the fields of source separation, speech enhancement, robust ASR, and sound event detection/localization in challenging multi-source and far-field scenarios. The interns will collaborate with MERL researchers to derive and implement new models and optimization methods, conduct experiments, and prepare results for publication. The ideal candidates are senior Ph.D. students with experience in some of the following: audio signal processing, microphone array processing, probabilistic modeling, sequence to sequence models, and deep learning techniques, in particular those involving minimal supervision (e.g., unsupervised, weakly-supervised, self-supervised, or few-shot learning). Multiple positions are available throughout 2023 (Spring/Summer of course, but also as early as January), with expected durations of 3-6 months and flexible start dates.

MERL is looking for a self-motivated and qualified candidate to work on human-robot-interaction projects. The ideal candidate is a PhD student and should have experience and records in one or multiple of the following areas. 1) Control, estimation and perception for Robotic manipulation 2) Experience in shared autonomy between robot and humans and intent recognition 3) Learning from demonstration algorithms applied to robotic manipulators 4) Machine learning techniques for modeling and control as well as regression and classification problems. 5) Experience in working with robotic systems and familiarity with one physics engine simulator like Mujoco, pyBullet, pyDrake. The successful candidate will be expected to develop, in collaboration with MERL employees, state of the art algorithms to solve complex manipulation tasks that involve human robot collaboration. Exceptional programming skills are required, including Python and ROS. The expectation is that the research will lead to one or more scientific publications. Typical internship length is 3-4 months.

We seek a highly motivated intern to conduct original research in conditional diffusion models for computer vision tasks. We are interested in applications to various tasks including image editing, multimodal generation, and image-to-image translation. The successful candidate will collaborate with MERL researchers to design and implement new models, conduct experiments, and prepare results for publication. The candidate should be a PhD student (or postdoc) in computer vision and machine learning with a strong publication record. Strong programming skills, experience developing and implementing new models in deep learning platforms such as PyTorch, and broad knowledge of machine learning and deep learning methods are expected. Previous experience in diffusion models is required.