RIT invites applications to the AWARE-AI NSF Research Traineeship Program
Cissi Ovesdotter Alm
Dear Colleagues,
Please share this information with your students:
Do you have a strong interest in Artificial Intelligence and how it impacts and interfaces with humans? Please consider applying to the AWARE-AI NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program at RIT by March 1: https://www.rit.edu/nrtai/.
Please register for our virtual open house information session on Dec. 6 at 11:00 am US Eastern time:
https://rit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NknwCBDAQayEuTjoaAcdPg
Students admitted to or currently enrolled in the following RIT PhD and MS on-campus programs in Rochester, NY can apply for a Traineeship with the AWARE-AI NRT Program. In addition, if eligible, applicants will also be considered for a fellowship.
Ph.D. Programs
Biomedical and Chemical Engineering
Computing and Information Sciences
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
MS programs
Information Technology and Analytics
Students are recommended to apply prior to their second year of graduate study. We especially encourage women, deaf or hard-of-hearing, and African American, Latino/a American, or Native American students to apply to AWARE-AI.
AWARE-AI Trainees experience convergent AI research guided by accomplished faculty in cross-disciplinary research tracks and carefully curated career-advancing activities that directly address skill gaps in graduate AI curricula.
Research tracks include:
Software: Trainees investigate machine learning innovations and how to develop AI systems capable of processing multimodal streams of information over time as flexibly as a human.
Hardware: Trainees advance human-robot collaboration and AI on the edge to achieve human trust in automation, and continual machine learning on robotic systems.
Human-computer interaction: Trainees evaluate the needs of older adults with hearing loss in regard to speech technology and develop and assess AI prototype systems.
Cognitive modeling: Trainees investigate human cognitive states and assess AI system reliability, focusing on understudied populations of AI users across the human lifespan or with disabilities.
More information is available at: https://www.rit.edu/nrtai/
Questions? Please contact the AWARE-AI NRT Director Cecilia Alm, Ph.D., at <aware...@rit.edu>.
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Cecilia O. Alm, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology
NRT Director, AWARE-AI NSF Research Traineeship Program – rit.edu/nrtai
Human-centered AI Lead, Center for Human-aware AI
Director, Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing Lab