2024 Spring-Summer Research Internship

Internship hiring for 2024 cycle is currently closed.

🏢 In-person, NAVER 1784, Jeongja, Bundang, South Korea
📅 Flexible starting date, 3 months + extendable up to 3 months

I will be accepting several research interns for around 2024 spring and summer. You will develop and execute research agenda that broadly touches personal/health informatics systems (c.f., link1, link 2) equipped with AI and NLP technologies, with methods including (1) building and evaluating novel interactive systems and (2) obtaining empirical insights around existing technology or prototyped probes. Detailed sub-agenda may include but are not limited to:

1. 💉🌱 Design and evaluations of LLM-infused health and personal well-being systems
2. 🤖🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Human-centered advancement of LLM-driven conversational AIs
3. ♿👶👴👩‍🦼 Accessibility of LLM-driven conversational AIs for marginalized populations (e.g., children, older adults, people with disability...)

Given that our interns tend to be pursuing a PhD, we don't assign you a research task; I usually have several iterations with applicants to elaborate their research plan to the direction not only that fits their thesis topic but also that can be strengthened with AI, ML, or NLP components.

An ideal outcome of the research internship is to submit an academic paper to top-tier venues, such as CHI, UIST, UbiComp, and CSCW.

You are highly encouraged to meet these formal requirements:

• Be pursuing a PhD or have received a Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or other fields relevant to HCI. But if you are not in a PhD program, a track record of research would be necessary.
• Have one or more accepted full (main) papers as a first author in CHI, UIST, CSCW, or UbiComp.

We'll achieve the most synergy if you...

• Are receptive to guidance and open to constructive feedback.
• Are eager to learn and leverage new research methods, technoolgies, programming languages, libraries, etc., that will help us answer our research questions.

I will try my best to help you...

• Equip yourself with new research methods and skills.
• Expand your research boundaries by integrating AI perspectives.
• Experience hands-on collaboration in every aspect of research, including technical implementation, evaluation, analysis, and writing.

How to Apply

To apply, send me an email, titled "[Internship application] {Your name} ({Affiliation})," with your CV and a brief research plan that you want to pursue with me at NAVER. (You can find my e-mail address in my CV.) Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until March 2024 and may be closed earlier.

Hiring Process

Screening → Coffee chat with me → Iteration of research topic → [Official HR process starts] → Coding test → Research proposal presentation → Job interviews (with 2-3 research scientists)