Opportunities

SUMMER RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME 2023

Introduction

Applications are invited for research bursaries for undergraduate students wishing to pursue a 6 week summer research project in the School of Computer Science, starting on the 5th June 2023. Two scholarships are available, each with a bursary of 2,000 euro.

Eligibility

These internship bursaries are available to all undergraduate students in University of Galway and other Irish HEI’s who have a significant computing aspect to their degree. Students who are already undertaking a funded placement/internship are ineligible to apply. Final year students are eligible to apply.

Eligible supervisors are listed below under the Possible Project Descriptions section. Candidates should make contact directly with a prospective supervisor to discuss a project and to arrange for the submission of the required recommendation by the prospective supervisor.

Academic Co-ordinator

The academic Co-ordinator is Dr Karl Mason. For any queries, students can email computerscience@universityofgalway.ie

Possible Project Descriptions

Please see below for a list of available project descriptions and associated supervisors.

Supervisor	Research Keywords	Example Project
Dr. Ihsan Ullah ihsan.ullah@universityofgalway.ie	Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Medical (cardiovascular) Imaging.	A deep learning approach for segmenting cardiovascular images e.g. CT angiograms, echocardiograms.
Dr. Frank Glavin frank.glavin@universityofgalway.ie	Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Game AI, Computer Science Education	Classifying High-Dimensional Spectroscopy Data using Deep Learning Algorithms and Data Synthesis Techniques.
Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi bharathi.raja@universityofgalway.ie	Natural Language Processing, Multimodal Data Analytics, Under-resourced Languages	Detecting Signs of Depression from Social Media Text
Dr. Patrick Mannion patrick.mannion@universityofgalway.ie	Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, Reinforcement Learning, Game-playing AI	Applying reinforcement learning to real time strategy games.
Dr. Natalia Resende Natalia.AlencardeResende@universityofgalway.ie	Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Machine Translation, Neural Networks, Natural Language Processing	An Exploration of Active Learning Uncertainty Techniques for Multi-Label Text Classification
Dr. Karl Mason karl.mason@universityofgalway.ie	Artificial Intelligence, Evolutionary Computing, Neural Networks, Applied Machine Learning, Evolutionary Robotics, Optimization	Developing optimization algorithms for high dimensional problems.
Dr. Jawad Manzoor Jawad.Manzoor@universityofgalway.ie	Cyber Security, Network Protocols, Artificial Intelligence	Artificial Intelligence for improving the cyber security posture of smart cities.
Dr. Effirul Ramlan effirul.ramlan@universityofgalway.ie	Generative Adversarial Networks, Regenerative Medicine, Stem Cell Research, Synthetic Data	Synthetic Data Generation for Stem Cell Application using GANs

Application Deadline

Sunday, 30th April 2023 at midnight

How to Apply:

Students should email a single pdf file to computerscience@universityofgalway.ie containing:

Your Full Name and Student ID.
The name of the proposed project supervisor and a copy email confirming their agreement to act as supervisor.
A short description of the research project (200 words maximum).
A table containing percentage grades for all university modules completed to date. Provisional results for Semester I of the current academic year should be included.

There is no official application form.