Internship Opportunity with Insight Via Artificial Intelligence – One opportunity is available for PhD students undertaking research in disciplines related to software engineering, computer science, data analytics or statistics

Organisational Overview

Insight Via Artificial Intelligence (IVAI) is an innovative Adelaide-based SME with extensive experience in the research, development, and deployment of artificial intelligence, machine learning, virtual/augmented reality, and data analytics technologies.
 

Internship Project Overview:

IVAI has curated an extensive dataset of physiological (biosensor) time series data, collected from various wearable devices worn by 100 participants over a two-week period as part of the Defence research project. This internship opportunity will involve joining IVAI’s research team to conduct a comprehensive exploratory data analysis on this dataset. 

During the internship, you will undergo extensive mentoring in data analysis techniques and methodologies, exposing you to the latest research in the field.  You will have the opportunity to interact with the project team and to work on a leading-edge Defence project.

You will be supported through an Internship Scholarship co-funded by Defence Trailblazer and IVAI, and providing stipend at a rate of $1,200 per week.

Internship activities may include:

• exploring low-level statistical details, such as analysing the frequency of missing data, assessing the agreement between different sensors (e.g., through Bland-Altman plots), and characterising outliers;
• undertaking traditional machine learning tasks, such as feature extraction for classification or clustering, both in supervised and unsupervised learning contexts,
• organising and partitioning the data, generating insightful visualisations, and
• documenting any significant insights or hypotheses that arise from the analysis.

Eligibility Criteria:

• PhD students undertaking research in the field of software engineering, statistics, data analytics or computer science
• Preferably students should possess
  • a solid foundation in statistics and proficiency in data analysis with the ability to use programming languages such as R, Python, MATLAB, or Julia
  • proficiency in writing Jupyter notebooks and producing clean, well-documented code/scripts.
• Australian citizens able to receive security clearance.

Additional Information:

The internship is anticipated to commence in October 2024 and will be offered on a part-time basis (2-3 days/week) over a 6-month period, for a minimum of 60 business days.

The student will be appropriately supervised by a qualified IVAI staff member.

At the conclusion of the project, full-time employment opportunities may be available for suitable candidates interested in future employment with Insight Via Artificial Intelligence. 

Application Procedure:

Application Start Date: 19 September 2024

Application Close Date: 3 October 2024

To apply, please refer to the Defence Trailblazer website and complete an online EOI form to provide the following documents for the – IVAI PhD Internship – Defence research Project

• Resume
• Cover Letter (of not more than 1 page) addressing the essential criteria and relevant skills and experience

Shortlisted applicants will be invited to an interview with Insight Via Artificial Intelligence.

If you have any follow up queries or require any other information prior to submitting your application, please contact Saba Ashraf, DTB WIL Program Coordinator, at workforce@dtb.solutions and we will be happy to assist you.