Internships and Student Projects

Large-scale Cognitive Profiling

Using Skill Lab: Science Detective, this could entail:

• Bayesian modeling of cognitive abilities
• A hierarchical version of the existing analysis
• Literature review of games assessing cognitive skills
• Test-retest reliability
• Privacy-preserving analysis pipelines

Online Game-based Large-scale Portfolio for Assessing Creativity

Using CREA, this could entail:

• Analysis of transcripts from preliminary crea.blender study
• Image analysis
• GANs and semantic based algorithms
• Literature reviews: Minecraft and creativity, creativity in education or creativity in young children

Human Problem-Solving

Using Crystal Crop fever, this could entail:

• Facilitating and/or analyzing think-aloud interviews and their data (group play)
• Limited resource search in 2-d landscapes: Annealing and agent-based-models.
• Running experiments comparing how individuals vs groups search

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Using NLP4All, this could entail: 

• Analysis of students' classifications, errors and correct tags
• NLP analysis of which kinds of tweets or texts students get right, wrong, etc.
• Adding new Machine Learning models to NLP4All
• Literature review of NLP and education

Skills needed/improved include natural language processing, qualitative analysis, and Python coding. 

Optimization in Education

• Analysis of students' classroom discussions, written responses during homework, or classroom work
• Analysis of students' decision making processes
• Comparing students' approaches to Machine Learning approaches
• Literature reviews 

Blocks-based Modeling in Education

• Analysis of students learning or modeling data
• Development of domain specific blocks-based libraries or curriculum
• Interview guides for eliciting designs for new blocks

Skills needed/improved include netlogo coding, learning analysis and natural language processing.

SciNote

• Build one or two small, simple learning activities using the SciNote prototype
• Literary review on tools similar to SciNote

Research-enabling Game-based Education (ReGAME)

• Literature review on Citizen science and games in the classroom and inquiry-based science education.

Quantum Games

• Facilitating and/or analyzing think-aloud interviews and their data
• Analysis of data from old version of Quantum Moves for player behavior
• Analysis of data from Lab Manager or Quantum Pattern Matching game
• Hidden Markov model for learning in Quantum Moves 2
• Development of next versions of games
• Incorporation of quantum games into curriculum (especially Lab Manager)
• Assistance with a review manuscript on quantum games
• Assistance in design and implementation of studies with quantum games.

Quantum Education

• Facilitating and/or analyzing think-aloud interviews and their data
• Quantitative analyses of qualitative PER data or survey data
• Development and testing of Quantum Composer exercises at different educational levels
• Assistance with further extensions of PER with Quantum Composer

Quantum Physics

• Development of remote experimental interfaces like the Alice Framework
• Development of curriculum around an educational remote experimental interface
• Review of remote interfaces used for experiments inside and outside of quantum physics

Skills required include at least a bachelor's level course in quantum mechanics, interest in learning more about the quantum world and the ability to read, speak and write English. 

Skills required for coding includes experience in a programming language (e.g. Python, Javascript, HTML, MATLAB). 

Experience with version control (e.g. GitLab), data analysis, data presentation, Machine Learning and statistics are also a plus. 

Data Science is the backbone of all our projects, from the design of scientific studies through the data acquisition planning, verification and debugging to the analysis and modeling of the data with advanced Macine Learning methods, often requiring custom-made architectures. With us, you can put your experience in this field to a good use as well as expand it in directions relevant for real-world applications.

Interested in the process of how to develop and maintain games, or create engaging game designs?

We have a wide variety of games as part of our ScienceAtHome platform where we host our citizen science and research games with the aim of revolutionizing scientific research and teaching by game-play. 

Some of the things we offer include:

• Working in a an organized development environment.
• Interacting and learning from professional coders.
• Planning and experiencing Unity3D game development from Git to Publication