Research Intern Vision Foundation Model and Generative AI
Research Intern Vision Foundation Model and Generative AI
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Sony AI America a branch of Sony AI is a remotely distributed organization spread across the U.S. and Canada. Sony AI is Sonys new research organization pursuing the mission to use AI to unleash human creativity. Sony AI works closely with Sonys other business units including Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC. Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. and Sony Music Entertainment. With some 900 million Sony devices in hands and homes worldwide today a vast array of Sony movies television shows and music and the PlayStation Network Sony creates and delivers more entertainment experiences to more people than anyone else on earth. To learn more: Summary
Sony AI is seeking research interns to join our PrivacyPreserving Machine Learning (PPML) team. Our team mainly focuses on fundamental and applied research with a focus on building vision foundation models in a responsible manner. The role of a research intern is to conduct innovative research develop methodologies design and prototype solutions. You will work with a fastgrowing team of worldclass scientists and engineers to tackle the most challenging problems in foundation models and generative AI including vision foundation model (VFM) knowledge transfer into VFM data synthesis federated learning and model compression from VFM to small models on edge. You will see your ideas not only published in papers but also improve the experience of millions of users of Sony.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Conduct fundamental and innovative research in large vision foundation model data synthesis federated learning and knowledge distillation including but not limited to architecture design and methodology design.
Be selfmotivated and capable of proposing and implementing innovative ideas.
Deep understanding of large vision foundation model development and various CV applications such as Image classification object detection pose detection semantic image segmentation etc.
Write reports and give presentations to internal and external audiences.
Contribute to library and tool development to support research and business.
Publish influential research outcomes in toptier conferences and journals.
Honesty trustworthiness and ethical conduct are material requirements for the responsibilities outlined above.
Required Qualifications and Skills:
Currently has or is in the process of obtaining a master/PhD degree in computer science or related field.
Publications or expertise in computer vision applications (e.g. object detection segmentation) vision and multimodal foundation model data synthesis knowledge distillation federated learning etc.
Ability to communicate research in a clear and precise manner.
Excellent analytical and programming skills in largescale deep learning.
Familiar with Python Pytorch etc.
Experience with research communities including having published papers at conferences e.g. CVPR ICCV ECCV NeurIPS ICLR ICML etc.
Strong communication and presentation skills
The target hourly rate for this internship is $50.00 per hour. The individual will be paid hourly and eligible for overtime.
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Required Experience:
Intern
Employment Type
Part-Time
