Research summer internships for students - UROP Internships
The Faculty of Informatics encourages and promotes the talent of its Bachelor and Master students by offering them summer internships in academic research within the programme Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program - UROP.
Internships are extracurricular and access is on a competitive basis. Students work one-on-one with an advisor to develop a deeper understanding of both the concepts taught during the semester and of the research topic. Students that are considering continuing in academia should seriously consider applying for a UROP position.
All research opportunities for this year are listed below (information available in English only).
Summer 2024 UROP Internship Project Proposals
Click here for the detailed descriptions of the UROP internship projects listed below.
Project Description | Mentors / Sponsors | |
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Interpretable Concept-based Semi-factuals |
Prof. Marc Langheinrich, Dr. Pietro Barbiero, Gabriele Dominici |
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Tabular deep concept reasoning |
Prof. Marc Langheinrich, Dr. Pietro Barbiero |
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Development of a Spectral-Temporal Transformer for Enhanced Biomedical Signal Analysis |
Prof. Marc Langheinrich, Dr. Martin Gjoreski, Dario Fenoglio |
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Human Activity Recognition with Multi-modality and Multi-frequency Federated Learning |
Prof. Marc Langheinrich, Mohan Li, Dario Fenoglio | |
Counterfactual Explanations in Multi-Task Federated Learning |
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Diverse Counterfactual Explanations with Diffusion Prior |
Prof. Marc Langheinrich, Daniil Kirilenkoi |
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Federated Counterfactual Generator for Wearable Technologies |
Prof. Marc Langheinrich, Dario Fenoglio, Gabriele Dominici |
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Student XAI – Explaining ML models for improving student wellbeing and performance |
Prof. Marc Langheinrich, Dr. Martin Gjoreski, Matias Laporte |
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Engineering project in the context of mining software repositories |
Prof. Gabriele Bavota, Ozren Dabic |
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Making Cinematic Heritage Accessible: use of LLM in UI for the Locarno Film Festival |
Prof. Fabio Crestani, Alessandro Cosentino |
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Network Extraction for Company Registrations |
Dr. Marco D’Ambros, Dr. Andrea Mocci, Jesper Findahl |
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‘Baba is You’ Solver |
Prof. Carlo A. Furia, Dr. Marco D’Ambros, Dr. Andrea Mocci |
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Platformer DSL & Analysis (Super Mario Maker Parser) |
Prof. Carlo A. Furia, Dr. Marco D’Ambros, Dr. Andrea Mocci |
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Enhancing SQL-to-Java Stream API Conversion through better query planning and Stream Gatherers |
Prof. Walter Binder, Dr. Filippo Schiavio |
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Vibrimage: Imaging using the vibration motor |
Dr. Diego Ulisse Pizzagalli |
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MAD – Moral Advisor Design to Prompt Reflection on Gender |
Dr. Monica Landoni, Irene Zanardi |
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Uncertainty-aware Deep Learning in Digital Healthcare |
Prof. Silvia Santini |
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Affection-aware Conversational Agents Using Large Language Models |
Prof. Silvia Santini |
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I Know what You Forgot in the Last Lecture |
Prof. Silvia Santini |
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Exploring the Impact of Lateralization on Wearable EDA Devices: A Novel Ap- proach Using Bilateral Data Fusion |
Prof. Silvia Santini |
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Enhancing Deep Learning Mutations via Weight-specific Fuzzing |
Prof. Paolo Tonella, Dr. Jinhan Kim |
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Neuron Importance-driven Post-training Mutation Tool for Deep Learning Systems |
Prof. Paolo Tonella, Nargiz Humbatova |
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Spectral Analysis of Neural Activation Values on Failure-Inducing Inputs |
Prof. Paolo Tonella, Nargiz Humbatova |
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Assessing Flakiness of End-to-End Web Test Suites |
Prof. Paolo Tonella, Dr. Matteo Biagiola |
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Programming Language for Reactive Distributed Monitoring |
Prof. Patrick Eugster, Dr. Pavel Chuprikov |
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Language-based Policy Checking for Secure Computing |
Prof. Patrick Eugster, Dr. Pavel Chuprikov, Shamiek Mangipudi |
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Compile-time Verification of Fault-tolerant Distributed Systems |
Prof. Patrick Eugster, Dr. Pavel Chuprikov |
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Confidentiality-preserving Stream Processing |
Prof. Patrick Eugster, Shamiek Mangipudi |
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Rust for Kernel-level Distributed Services |
Prof. Patrick Eugster, Dr. Pavel Chuprikov, Davide Rovelli |
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Leveraging Synchrony for Efficient Distributed Services |
Prof. Patrick Eugster, Dr. Pavel Chuprikov, Davide Rovelli |
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Validation of Quantum Policies with NetSquid |
Prof. Patrick Eugster, Dr. Pavel Chuprikov, Anita Buckley |
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Formal Modeling of Probabilistic Quantum Network Policies |
Prof. Patrick Eugster, Dr. Pavel Chuprikov, Anita Buckley |
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SAT-based techniques for Approximate Circuit Design |
Prof. Laura Pozzi |
In general, if you are interested in working in a specific research group, even one not mentioned above, please contact the corresponding professor directly.
Eligibility and Application Deadline
- USI Informatics Bachelor or Master student
- Directly contact a project's mentor BEFORE applying (see names above)
- Application deadline: 25 February 2024 (by the deadline you should already agree with the project's mentor) - to apply please send an email with your favorite projects to [email protected]
Acceptance and Funding
- Funded by the Faculty of Informatics
- Only a limited number of grants available
- Acceptance is competitive
- Decision is taken by the Dean
Duration and Dates of Internship
- Roughly 2 months
- Start after exam period (~ July 1st)
- End before recovery exam period (~ August 31)