Internship opportunity at the Centre Inria d'Université Côte d'Azur

[Federica Granese]

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce a Master 2 internship opportunity within the MARIANNE and MAASAI teams at the Centre Inria d'Université Côte d'Azur.

Title: Multi-source Online Topic Modeling
Duration: 6 months – starting April 15, 2026 (fixed)
Location: Centre Inria d'Université Côte d'Azur, Sophia Antipolis
Gratification: ~600 €/month (standard French internship gratification)

Profile: Master's Degree student (or equivalent) in Statistics, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, or NLP.

Description: Online topic models are unsupervised algorithms designed to identify latent topics in textual data streams that evolve over time. The goal of this internship is to extend SB-SETM, an innovative online topic model leveraging the Embedded Topic Model and continuous optimal transport, to a multi-source setting in which document batches originate from different information sources at each time step. Experiments will be conducted on disinformation datasets to analyze how sensitive topics are framed and evolve across heterogeneous sources over time.

Keywords: Topic Modeling, Natural Language Processing, Disinformation Detection.

How to Apply
Please send your CV and transcripts of records (Bachelor's and Master's) to:
• Federica Granese: federica...@inria.fr
• Serena Villata: serena....@inria.fr
• Charles Bouveyron: charles....@inria.fr

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis as they are received.

Please feel free to forward this announcement to any students who may be interested.

Best regards,

Federica