AI Opportunities in Academia

Resources for undergraduate and graduate students looking for solid academic opportunities in AI.

Some of these programs are not explicitly centered on AI/ML/DL, but still offer the perfect opportunity to study AI. For example---Stanford's CSLI institute brings together language, psychology, and philosophy---but its members regularly publish in top NLP conferences such as EMNLP, ACL, etc. MIT's MSRP program covers a broad range of disciplines, but you can be matched with a faculty member in CSAIL.

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Internships

Generally, Google something like "REU research experience for undergraduates artificial intelligence" to find academic internships.

Universities

• UC Berkeley - Summer Undergraduate Program in Engineering Research at Berkeley (SUPERB)
  • Undergrad only
• UC Berkeley - Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence
• Stanford - Center for the Study of Language and Information Summer Internship (CSLI)
  • NLP
  • Undergrad only
• Carnegie Mellon University - Human Computer Interaction Institute Summer Research Program
  • Computer vision, human understanding, NLP
  • Undergrad only
• Carnegie Mellon University - Robitics Institute Summer Scholars
  • Reinforcement learning, computer vision
  • Undergrad only
• Carnegie Mellon University - SURF
  • Paid research for any topic
  • Undergrad only
• Mila - Year-round Internship
  • Led by Yoshua Bengio (one of the 3 "fathers" of DL)
  • Grad or undergrad
• MIT - MIT Summer Research Program
  • Undergrad only
• University of Southern California - Robotics and Autonomous Systems
  • Undergrad only
• University of Southern California - Institute for Creative Technologies
  • Undergrad only

Research Labs

• Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI)
  • Machine learning for energy and physics research at various national institutions, e.g. Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, etc.
• Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)
  • Underwater robotics
  • Grad or undergrad
• NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  • Grad or undergrad
  • Space robotics, autonomy, aviation
• NASA Ames
  • Grad or undergrad
  • Space robotics, autonomy

Tech Industry

If you have an AI background, the big tech companies can most likely match you to a publishable AI project. You don't need to be in a dedicated AI program at these companies to land a project in AI.

• Google, Facebook, Microsoft, NVIDIA
• Allen Institute for AI

Scholarships

• Barry Goldwater Scholarship
  • Undergrad sophomore or junior

Fellowships

These are better Googled, but here is a short list.

• NSF GRFP
• NDSEG
• Hertz (extremely selective)
• Ford
  • specifically for those interested in teaching
• Open Phil Fellowship
  • Fellowship by the Open Philanthrophy Project
  • Grad (PhD) only