Projects

Biodiversity and Biogeography of Indo-Pacific Soft Corals

Are you interested in the project below? Awesome! PLEASE DO NOT APPLY THROUGH THE URO SITE. Instead, follow this link: https://forms.gle/dRRVyH2yj52PfTAg6 Throughout the Indo-Pacific region…

3 sp. | 0 appl.

Summer - Full Time

Molecular Scale Understanding of Anesthetic Binding

The ability of anesthetics to induce safe and reversible loss of consciousness in patients has proven to be of inestimable value. However, the mechanism through which anesthetics work is still a long…

3 sp. | 0 appl.

Summer - Full Time

Mitochondrial Protein Degradation in Health and Longevity

Are you interested in the project below? Awesome! PLEASE DO NOT APPLY THROUGH THE URO SITE. Instead, follow this link [https://forms.gle/dRRVyH2yj52PfTAg6] to send in your application by Feb. 19th. We…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

Summer - Full Time

Optimizing Deep Learning Capabilities with Low Power Devices

Traditionally, data from cameras or sensors was sent to the cloud, where machine learning models, typically deep neural networks (DNNs), were run over the data. However, sending data to the cloud adds…

1 sp. | 2 appl.

Summer - Full Time

Machine Learning (+1)

Controlling material degradability through stereochemistry

Many plastics are used by humans for only a few minutes before being discarded to sit in a landfill for generations. New strategies to degrade plastics are urgently needed, and fundamental…

1 sp. | 0 appl.

Summer - Full Time

Polymer Science (+4)

Identification of selective prebiotics for commensal bacteria

We are just beginning to understand that trillions of microbes live within us and are key regulators of our health. This dynamic population comprises both beneficial commensal organisms and harmful…

1 sp. | 0 appl.

Summer - Full Time

Machine Learning Pipeline Optimization when Querying Video Data

In real-world deployments of machine learning (ML) models, many models and computer vision (CV) operations are logically stitched together to return the final result. For example, to detect abandoned…

1 sp. | 0 appl.

Summer - Full Time

Computer Vision (+2)

Hybrid materials for energy storage

To tackle climate change, we need cleaner, more efficient ways to store and use energy. Many of the proposed “next generation” energy devices (things like fuel cells or advanced battery technologies)…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

Summer - Full Time

Reduced Cost Heat Pump Space- and Water-Heating in Cold Climates

Critical technological challenges impact the cost and performance of decarbonized space- and water- heating solutions. This project is a multi-institution effort to develop, model, fabricate, and test…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

Summer - Full Time (+1)

Numerical Modeling (+4)

Studying Fluorescence in Bio-Inspired Materials for Sustainability

The student scholars in the Molecular Engineering lab will be the first to study a previously undiscovered fluorescence property in a well-researched material, with applications as a sensor for…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

Summer - Full Time

Molecular Design (+5)

Elastic Movements in Nature, Robotics and Materials

Some animals can use elastic energy to drive repeatable, ultra-fast motion. For example, some species of mantis shrimp can accelerate their hammer-like appendages 10,000 g's of acceleration, reaching…

5 sp. | 0 appl.

Summer - Full Time

Gravitational Lensing in Inhomogeneous Cosmological Models

Mainly all cosmological observations consist of light in different wavelengths (except, for example, binary black hole collisions, which produce gravitational waves exclusively). In Newtonian physics…

3 sp. | 2 appl.

Summer - Full Time

Explaining the Electrical Properties of Quantum Materials

Our lab investigates how electrons behave in solids — such as crystals, glasses, metals, superconductors, van-der-Waals (2D) materials, spin-liquid magnets, charge-ordered oxides and amorphous…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

Spring - Part Time (+2)

Materials Science (+2)

Physics of Dark Matter & Hidden Particles

We are using simulations and data from particle physics experiments to look for dark matter, and studying theories with new particles and forces to understand their impact on cosmology

3 sp. | 1 appl.

Summer - Full Time

Interactive Simulations and Applets for Theoretical Mechanics

This project is open to students in any major. In this project, we are developing a set of interactive simulation applets and associated curricular materials for the HMC junior-level Theoretical…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

Summer - Full Time

Computer Science (+3)

Distinguishing Features of Scientific Papers Cited in Clean Air Policy

Air quality regulations in the United States are supposed to be based on the "best available science" articulated in the Clean Air Act, but how this notion of ’best’ is defined is unclear and at times…

2 sp. | 1 appl.

Summer - Full Time

Natural Language Processing (+5)

User-Friendly Tuning of Unsupervised Models of Text

Topic models are a popular machine learning tool for exploration of unstructured text across numerous domains, ranging from data journalism and customer service to economics, history, and literature…

2 sp. | 2 appl.

Summer - Full Time

Natural Language Processing (+3)

Computer and Human Vision Research and Development

Here in the Laboratory for Cognition and Attention in Time and Space (Lab for CATS), we study visual perception with a focus on artificial visual agents, but often draw inspiration from and compare to…

4 sp. | 3 appl.

Summer - Full Time

Machine Learning (+3)

Eco-friendly molecule making

Do you want to do chemistry that is good and beautiful, green and clever? Do you want to be a legit molecule maker? Join us! We are developing eco-friendly reactions to rapidly create organic…

3 sp. | 0 appl.

Summer - Full Time

Molecular Design (+3)

AMISTAD Lab: Proving the Limits of ML, AI, and Search Systems!

Lab Page: https://www.cs.hmc.edu/AMISTAD Lab Projects: https://www.cs.hmc.edu/~montanez/projects/projects.html LAB Publications: https://www.cs.hmc.edu/~montanez/publications.html AMISTAD Lab focuses…

3 sp. | 2 appl.

Summer - Full Time

Computer Science (+4)

Measuring Quantum Entanglement

Design and demonstrate "entanglement witnesses," measurements that test for quantum entanglement in pairs of photons entangled in polarization. Optics, quantum information, experiment, theory.

2 sp. | 1 appl.

Summer - Full Time

Using Imperfect Predictions to Make Good Decisions

Imagine learning to play a new video game. A natural approach would be to learn to make predictions about how the video game will respond to your actions (model learning) and to use those predictions…

3 sp. | 1 appl.

Summer - Full Time

Computer Science (+2)

Formal Methods for Quantitative Program Analysis

My projects tackle problems of knowing what programs will do. These are challenging problems (uncomputable, in fact!). On top of that, we also want to know HOW MANY ways a program can do its thing…

4 sp. | 2 appl.

Summer - Full Time

Algorithms (+3)

Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Technology for Marine Life Tracking

This work will develop Autonomous Underwater Vehicle tracking technology, and apply it to a nurse shark and sea turtle monitoring study in Costa Rica.

2 sp. | 1 appl.

Spring - Part Time (+1)

A Robotic Test Bed for Studying the Hunting behavior of predatory fish

Description: Locomotion is one of the most important behaviors animals engage in. It plays an outsize role on the outcome of predator-prey interactions. Predators must decide when and how to pursue…

2 sp. | 1 appl.

Spring - Part Time (+1)

Scripting for All

Scripting is rightly appreciated as an automation engine. This project explores scripting's value as an exploration engine: Can it help in developing ideas that don't overlap with CS at all?

6 sp. | 2 appl.

Summer - Full Time

Computer Science

Summer StartUp

Guiding a startup from idea to prototype is memorable, intense, and fun. Summer startup supports self-directed, team-based entrepreneurial projects.

8 sp. | 4 appl.

Summer - Full Time

Engineering (+3)

Creating an Estimation and Data Association Course for MITLL

The MIT Lincoln Laboratory is interested in hiring a summer intern to help us prepare an internal course on Estimation and Data Association. HMC alum Bryan Teague will lead and direct this effort. The…

1 sp. | 1 appl.

Summer - Full Time

Mathematics (+2)

Mapping Flowers to Save the Bees

Honey bees and native bees such as bumble bees are important pollinators in both natural and agricultural ecosystems. However, bees of both kinds are disappearing, and one of the key factors…

1 sp. | 0 appl.

Summer - Full Time

Computer Science (+4)

Tracking Ant Movement in Artificial Trees

What do ant colonies and railroad systems have in common? Both serve to transport goods and individuals from place to place, and need to balance the often competing goals of doing so efficiently and…

1 sp. | 0 appl.

Summer - Full Time

Computer Vision (+3)

Ant Behavior and Transportation Networks

Are you interested in the project below? Awesome! PLEASE DO NOT APPLY THROUGH THE URO SITE. Instead, follow this link: https://forms.gle/dRRVyH2yj52PfTAg6 What do ant colonies and railroad systems…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

Summer - Full Time