PhD Research Intern: Proficiency in Procedural Video ML

Honda Research Institute USA; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 23,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

Honda Research Institute USA in San Jose, CA invites a PhD research intern to advance proficiency estimation in long procedural videos. The project explores action recognition, error detection, and skill assessment under narrated guidance, with emphasis on multimodal video-language alignment and model fine-tuning.

The role targets independent researchers with strong publication records, capable of driving ideation to experimentation and contributing to high-impact studies and potential patents.

Qualifications

• PhD student in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, AI, or related field.
• Excellent publication record in top-tier conferences.
• Experience with multimodal language models and video understanding.
• Strong programming skills and PyTorch proficiency.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to independently drive research from ideation to publication.

Responsibilities

• Conduct cutting-edge research in learning from narration to evaluate proficiency in procedural videos.
• Design and implement algorithms for aligning video and text descriptions and training multi-modal language models.
• Perform literature review, run experiments, and analyze results.
• Lead or contribute to research paper writing and potential conference submissions.
• Write reproducible research code using deep learning frameworks like PyTorch.

Job description

Honda Research Institute USA in San Jose, CA invites a PhD research intern to advance proficiency estimation in long procedural videos. The project explores action recognition, error detection, and skill assessment under narrated guidance, with emphasis on multimodal video-language alignment and model fine-tuning.

The role targets independent researchers with strong publication records, capable of driving ideation to experimentation and contributing to high-impact studies and potential patents.