The Muti-Physics and Dynamics (MD) group at MERL is seeking a highly motivated, qualified individual to join our internship program in the summer of 2021. The ideal candidate will be a senior Ph.D. student specializing in fluid mechanics, control, turbulence modeling, reduced-order modeling, and non-convex optimization. Research experience in computational fluid dynamics (CFD), data-assimilations, continuous and discreet adjoint methods is highly desirable. Familiarity with computational programming languages like Python, Fortran or C++ (openFOAM level) is expected. Publication of results obtained during the internship is expected. The starting date is flexible between April-June 2021, and the internship will last 3-4 months. This internship is preferred to be onsite at MERL, but may be done remotely where you live if the COVID pandemic makes it necessary. This internship is preferred to be onsite at MERL, but may be done remotely where you live if the COVID pandemic makes it necessary.

MERL is seeking a highly motivated and qualified intern to collaborate with the Control for Autonomy team in the development of algorithms for planning and control of autonomous vehicles. The potential subjects include high level decision making using formal methods and set-based control, coordination or perception and control strategies to improve environment knowledge while achieving a goal, and distributed control for multi-vehicle systems. The ideal candidate is expected to be working towards a PhD with strong emphasis in control or planning algorithms, and to have interest and background in as many as possible among: motion planning, predictive control, perception and object detection optimization, machine learning for vehicle prediction, autonomous vehicles. Good programming skills in MATLAB, Python or C/C++ are required. The expected duration of the internship is in the Spring of 2021, for a duration of 3-6 months. This internship is preferred to be onsite at MERL, but may be done remotely where you live if the COVID pandemic makes it necessary.

MERL is seeking a highly motivated and qualified intern to collaborate with the Control for Autonomy team in the development of algorithms for coordinating control and perception in autonomous systems. The overall objective is to determine the sensing strategy together with the motion/control strategy to effectively achieve a control goal while managing the risk due to the environment uncertainty. The ideal candidate is expected to be working towards a PhD with strong emphasis in control or planning algorithms, and to have interest and background in as many as possible among: predictive control, stochastic tubes, scenario-based stochastic optimization, uncertainty and risk representation, machine learning and motion planning algorithms. Good programming skills in MATLAB and/or Python, are required. The expected duration of the internship is in the Spring of 2021, for a duration of 3-6 months. This internship is preferred to be onsite at MERL, but may be done remotely where you live if the COVID pandemic makes it necessary.