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ESSOS - OSPO Spring Internship Program Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research Data Science Institute $15.00-17.00 UW Student Jobs
ESSOS - OSPO Spring Internship Program summary: The ESSOS team intends to design the next generation of fusion energy devices. Using the open-source code ESSOS (https://github.com/uwplasma/ESSOS), we intend to show that both coil optimization and magnetic field optimization can be performed using python-based software such as JAX and DIFFRAX. The goal is to generate simplified coils and equilibria able to confine alpha particles stemming from fusion reactions. The intern would help the ESSOS team to integrate all of the core modules of ESSOS into abstract classes in order to simplify the optimization procedure. Furthermore, the intern would help find more efficient optimization strategies to find better performing fusion devices.
SPECTRAX - OSPO Spring Internship Program Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research Data Science Institute $15.00-17.00 UW Student Jobs
SPECTRAX - OSPO Spring Internship Program summary: The SPECTRAX team intends to model the plasma turbulence seen in astrophysical plasma systems, such as the Sun and intergalactic media. Using the open-source code SPECTRAX (https://github.com/uwplasma/SPECTRAX), we intend to show that shocks and three-dimensional magnetic reconnection can be modelled using Python-based software such as JAX and DIFFRAX. The goal is to generate differentiable plasma physics simulations that can be used in active research. The intern would help the parallelization of SPECTRAX on multiple GPUs, its dissemination to the community by help drafting a SPECTRAX website and run massively parallelized simulations.
RLinearAlgebra.jl - OSPO Spring Internship Program Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research Data Science Institute $15.00-17.00 UW Student Jobs
RLinearAlgebra.jl - OSPO Spring Internship Program summary: RLinearAlgebra.jl is currently in v0.2 with a regularly expanding code base, complete API documentation, complete unit testing, and substantial CI/CD automations (e.g., code coverage, testing, documentation deployment). We are currently focused on four areas: adding new features, substantiating the manual pages, creating tutorials, and creating application-specific examples and benchmarks.
Taskflow - OSPO Spring Internship Program Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research Data Science Institute $15.00-17.00 UW Student Jobs
Taskflow - OSPO Spring Internship Program summary: To sustain the growth and reliability of Taskflow, this proposal aims to strengthen its continuous integration (CI) and testing infrastructure.
scdhlm - OSPO Spring Internship Program Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research Data Science Institute $15.00-17.00 UW Student Jobs
scdhlm - OSPO Spring Internship Program summary: scdhlm (https://github.com/jepusto/scdhlm) and SingleCaseES (https://github.com/jepusto/SingleCaseES) are R packages that provide specialized effect size calculation methods used in certain areas of social science research.
RSEM - OSPO Spring Internship Program Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research Data Science Institute $15.00-17.00 UW Student Jobs
RSEM - OSPO Spring Internship Program summary: Estimating gene expression levels from RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) data is one of the most widely used applications of high throughput sequencing technology. Our group developed RSEM (RNA-Seq by Expectation Maximization), methodology and associated software that is considered by many as the gold standard for expression level estimation from RNA-seq data. RSEM has been highly impactful: it has been cited over 23,000 times (Google Scholar), been used in several big consortia projects such as ENCODE, TCGA, GTEx and TOPMed, and influenced other popular quantification tools such as Kallisto and Salmon.
Polymer Digital Engineering - OSPO Spring Internship Program Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research Data Science Institute $15.00-17.00 UW Student Jobs
Polymer Digital Engineering - OSPO Spring Internship Program summary: This project will address fundamental and open questions about the mechanisms governing water transport in polymers, with the potential for improving the design principles of next-generation membrane materials. By bridging the gap between theoretical models and simulation-based evidence, our research aims to provide novel insights that could redefine how we understand and engineer polymeric membranes for enhanced performance in industrial applications.
lmelnfo - OSPO Spring Internship Program Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research Data Science Institute $15.00-17.00 UW Student Jobs
lmelnfo - OSPO Spring Internship Program summary: lmeInfo (https://github.com/jepusto/lmeInfo) is an R package that provides analytic derivatives and information matrices for fitted linear mixed effects (lme) models and generalized least squares (gls) models estimated using nlme::lme() and nlme::gls(), respectively.
clubSandwich - OSPO Spring Internship Program Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research Data Science Institute $15.00-17.00 UW Student Jobs
clubSandwich - OSPO Spring Internship Program summary: clubSandwich (https://github.com/jepusto/clubSandwich) is a popular R package (in the top 10 percent of all R package downloads) that provides several cluster-robust variance estimators for ordinary and weighted least squares linear regression models, two-stage least squares regression models, and generalized linear models. Several adjustments are incorporated to improve small-sample performance. The package follows an object-oriented design to allow for straight-forward extension to other classes of regression models. Several models are not currently supported but are on the roadmap. An intern would be responsible for 1) learning about a statistical model that is not currently supported, 2) developing required methods so that the clubSandwich works for the model, 3) writing unit tests and examples to verify correct implementation.
Interactive Live Scripts for Science Education - OSPO Spring Internship Program Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research Data Science Institute $15.00-17.00 UW Student Jobs
Interactive Live Scripts for Science Education - OSPO Spring Internship Program summary: Interactive Live Scripts for Science Education - Professor Carlsmith has developed roughly 90 open source interactive MATLAB Live Script tutorials/labs available at the MATLAB File Exchange introducing physics, astronomy, and engineering students to computation in science. These Live Scripts span topics from analysis of open source gravitational wave and exoplanet data to hands-on measurement of the speed of sound with a mobile phone and laptop.
Matern Covariance - OSPO Spring Internship Program Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research Data Science Institute $15.00-17.00 UW Student Jobs
Matern Covariance - OSPO Spring Internship Program summary: The project mentor has a library for fast evaluation of the Matern covariance function _and_ its derivatives, including with respect to the smoothness parameter. This originally stemmed from a paper they wrote a few years ago about using autodiff to accurately differentiate the Matern function with respect to the smoothness parameter, which is not possible in closed form without using generalized confluent hypergeometric functions. But this is a problem, because as the theory around fixed-domain asymptotics for Gaussian processes indicates this parameter is quite likely the most important one to be fitting.
Open Source Toolbox for Analyzing Frequency Following Responses (FFRs) - OSPO Spring Internship Program Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research Data Science Institute $15.00-17.00 UW Student Jobs
Open Source Toolbox for Analyzing Frequency Following Responses (FFRs) - OSPO Spring Internship Program summary: The aim of this project is to develop an open source toolbox for analyzing frequency following responses (FFRs) to speech using a standardized pipeline and AI based approaches.
Promoting Open Access to Scholarly Research - OSPO Spring Internship Program Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research Data Science Institute $15.00-17.00 UW Student Jobs
Promoting Open Access to Scholarly Research - OSPO Spring Internship Program summary: The Gernsbacher Lab is an international and local (inaugural Hall of Fame member for Open Source at UW-Madison) leader in promoting open access of scholarly research, including publications, research materials, data sets, data analyses. and -- a unique contribution -- self-audits of citation accuracy. The intern will be involved in each step of producing and promoting open access to scholarly research.
Dengue & Nipah Virus Eco-Epidemiology in Bangladesh - OSPO Spring Internship Program Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research Data Science Institute $15.00-17.00 UW Student Jobs
Dengue & Nipah Virus Eco-Epidemiology in Bangladesh - OSPO Spring Internship Program summary: Our research integrates artificial intelligence, computer vision, and One Health principles to enhance biosurveillance and ecological forecasting. The project focuses on two interrelated efforts: (1) developing automated image detection models to identify bats in photographs and video frames for abundance, behavior, and conservation studies, and (2) using high-resolution macro imagery of medically important arthropods (e.g., mosquitoes, ticks) captured via Cognysis StackShot equipment to generate 3D reconstructions.
Machine Learning Gyrochronology Age Estimator - OSPO Spring Internship Program Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research Data Science Institute $15.00-17.00 UW Student Jobs
Machine Learning Gyrochronology Age Estimator - OSPO Spring Internship Program summary: This astronomy research project focuses on developing a machine learning tool to obtain reliable stellar ages from rotation periods. The project will create an open-source Python package called the "Machine Learning Gyrochronology Age Estimator" that automatically estimates stellar ages using gyrochronology—the method of dating stars by measuring how fast they rotate.
LASSO - OSPO Spring Internship Program Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research Data Science Institute $15.00-17.00 UW Student Jobs
LASSO - OSPO Spring Internship Program summary: The LASSO (i.e., l1 regularization) is one of the most important methods in modern statistics and machine learning, enabling practitioners to fit high-dimensional models with more latent parameters than observations. From the linear models that underpin genome-wide association studies to deep neural network, l1 regularization is an indispensable tool in modern data science. While some of the LASSO's popularity and ubiquity can be attributed to its strong empirical performance and its favorable theoretical properties, a far larger share is due to the availability of easy-to-use open-source software implementations, notably the glmnet package in R.
DesignLab Graduate Teaching Assistant - Digital Design General Library Library/Design Lab $14,578.50 UW Student Assistant
DesignLab Graduate Teaching Assistant - Digital Design summary: DesignLab is looking for organized, personable, and creative graduate students with strong communication skills, digital design experience, and flexible schedules to work as Teaching Assistants (aka Design Consultants). These TAs would consult with UW-Madison students/faculty/staff, develop digital media curricular materials, and deliver instructional services such as workshops in courses across the UW-Madison campus. This is a dual teaching and consulting position.
Animal Care Helper College of Agricultural & Life Sciences Nutritional Sciences $15.00 UW Student Jobs
Animal Care Helper summary: We are looking for reliable students to join our team as Student Animal Care Helpers in the Department of Nutritional Sciences. Start date is flexible between the beginning of December and the start of the spring semester, 2026. There is the option to work over winter break as well, though this is not required.
Project Coordinator & Operations Assistant (Work-Study) Community Partners Get in Gear Driving School 14-17 Local Work Study Student Jobs
Project Coordinator & Operations Assistant (Work-Study) summary: Join a fast-growing local education startup as our Project Coordinator & Operations Assistant! Get in Gear Driving School is building Wisconsin’s most modern teen driver education program, and we’re looking for a highly organized UW–Madison student to support internal projects, operations, and curriculum development. In this role, you’ll help manage timelines, track deliverables, organize digital materials, assist with class preparation, and keep our internal systems running smoothly. Perfect for students interested in project management, operations, business, education, or edtech. This is a work-study position with flexible hours, real ownership, and resume-ready experience in project coordination inside a rapidly scaling organization.
Student Help - Waisman Early Childhood Program (WECP) Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research Waisman Center $15.00 UW Student Jobs
Student Help - Waisman Early Childhood Program (WECP) summary: The Waisman Early Childhood Program (WECP) is seeking multiple students to assist with day-to-day classroom functions to foster and support a nurturing, inclusive environment. If you have an interest or are looking for more experience in the area(s) of early childhood education, special education, disability advocacy, child and family development, nursing or other care-taking related fields, apply today!

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