Predoctoral Young Investigator, PRIOR

Key Skills

Python Programming, Scala Programming, C++, Java Programming, Machine learning techniques, Data science techniques, SQL, Apache Hadoop, MapReduce, TensorFlow, PyTorch, R Programming

Job Description

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) is a non-profit research institute in Seattle founded by Paul Allen and headed by Professor Oren Etzioni. The core mission of (AI2) is to contribute to humanity through high-impact AI research and engineering.

AI2’s Perceptual Reasoning and Interaction Research team (PRIOR) seeks to advance computer vision to create AI systems that see, explore, learn, and reason about the world.

The Allen AI Predoctoral Young Investigator is a 1-3 year residency program. It offers predoctoral candidates the opportunity to prepare for graduate-level research through partnership with strong mentors, participation in cutting edge research, and co-authorship of papers at top venues. This program aims to position candidates for successful entry into a top graduate program.

Benefits:

• Gain strong research experience through direct collaboration with AI2 researchers
• Co-author papers with AI2 researchers and get published in top venues
• Learn about and leverage AI2’s data, engineering infrastructure, and research tools
• Assistance with graduate school vetting and application
• Generous travel budget
• Financial and legal support for visa acquisition

As a PYI in the PRIOR team, you will have the opportunity to work in a variety of research areas including:

• Embodied AI
• Language and Vision
• Visual knowledge extraction
• Visual reasoning
• Representation learning
• Scene analysis and understanding
• Recognition, detection and segmentation
• Efficient deep learning
• And more ...

What You Will Need:

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in a relevant field with a desire to enter a PhD program in the next 1-3 years
• Relevant coursework such as computer vision, deep learning, machine learning 
• Research background via publications or projects in computer vision, machine learning, natural language processing, etc.
• Prototyping skills to implement preliminary research ideas
• Experience with deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, Tensorflow, etc.)
• Strong collaboration skills - our environment is small and collaborative, and we'd like you to thrive on working closely with others.

Bonus qualifications:

• Publications in top-tier computer vision or machine learning conferences
• Strong Mathematics background or high grades in Mathematics courses
• Strong software development skills
• High GPA in relevant courses
• Experience with cloud services (e.g., AWS and Azure)