Dr. Kim in Aerospace Engineering is seeking an undergraduate researcher on a project to develop autonomous landing sequence for multiple drones at the airport. We want to utilize the recommender that you use every day in YouTube. The recommender gives you the order (or sequence) of videos you might like to watch based on your watching data. We want to do the same thing! We want to use learning-to-rank technique in Machine Learning and give each airplane the rank to land. From this project, you will learn how machine learning work and how to implement to real-world problem.
Benefits of the position:
- This project is funded for you! You will be paid an hourly rate.
- You will collaborate with a NASA researcher who is working at NASA Ames Research Center!
- You will learn how to research the engineering projects and collaborate with faculty and graduate students!
- Dr. Kim will train you to improve soft skills (written/oral communications, critical thinking etc.,)
- You will publish the scientific paper that has your name on it in authors! Don’t worry, Dr. Kim and graduate students will assist you! You will be the helper!
- This will be the perfect research project as the undergraduate if you plan to attend the graduate school after ISU program is done!
Eligibility:
- The applicants must be in junior or higher years in their program.
- GPA must be higher than 3.2
- You don’t need any research experience. Passion to learn is required.
- You must be the underrepresented population in STEM. (women, African American, black, Hispanic, Latino, gender-minority, etc.)
Preferred skills (this is not required):
- Python programming
- TensorFlow
- Machine learning
Don’t wait! Please go ahead and apply today!
Submit your application here!
