2023 Summer Internship Program
The Institute for Software-Integrated Systems' Summer Internship Program offers paid, in-person summer internship opportunities to current undergraduate and graduate students from both Vanderbilt and other universities. The Institute interns participate in a variety of projects that offer students challenging and engaging experiences. The internship duration is 10 weeks from May 30 - August 4, 2023. While the structure of each project is different, the internships provide:
- Opportunities to gain real world experience in applied research in advanced technical fields
- Experience with electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and computer science research
- Chances to work with premier universities, research labs, and industry partners
- Competitive stipends
ABOUT ISIS
The Institute is a professional research organization at the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, located just off campus on Nashville's Music Row. Our work focuses on sytems, with deeply integrated software, that are networked, embedded and cyber-physical. We conduct cutting-edge, world-class research on real-world problems in the following areas:
- Model-Integrated Computing
- Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems
- Wireless Sensor Networks
- Model-Based Design of Cyber-Physical Systems
- Systems Security and Privacy
ELIGIBILITY
- MUST be a current undergraduate or graduate student at an accredited institution
- Have completed at least one year of college at the time of application
- Have an undergraduate cumulative minimum GPA of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale (perferred)
- Be 18 years or older prior to the start of the internship
- Must physically reside in the Nashville area for the duration of the program for in-person work
APPLICATION PROCESS
- Applicants review VU-ISIS research areas and project descriptions as listed on the project descriptions page and indicate preferences in their application for working with a particular PI/research area
- PIs review applications and offers are extended
- Applicants accept or decline the offer
- Selected applicants work with the VU-ISIS administrative team to complete the intake webform and other onboarding tasks
IMPORTANT DATES
The 2023 dates are listed below to give you a general idea of the timeline:
Applications Open: January 9th, 2023
Virtual Open House: February 22nd, 2023
Application deadline: March 3rd, 2023 March 8th, 2023
Latest notification of acceptance decisions: March 24th, 2023 March 31st, 2023
Student decision deadline: April 3rd, 2023 April 7th, 2023
Intake forms due: April 7th, 2023
Program Dates: May 30 to August 4th
Please contact isis.internships@vanderbilt.edu for questions regarding the application and application deadline for the 2022 program.
PROJECT EXEMPLARS
2023 (Rolling)
- Cognitive Processes for Programming
- Compositional DSLs for Enhancing Software
- Cyber Physical Systems Virtual Organization
- Data-centric Robustness for Machine Learning
- Data-driven Analysis of Equity and Fairness in Public Transit
- Infrastructure for Computing the Biome
- Heterogeneous Simulation Integration for Analyzing Critical Infrastructures
- Multimodal Analytics Pipeline to student Learners’ Problem solving Behaviors
- Studying Reinforcement Learning-Based Algorithms for Fault-Tolerant Control
- Transit System Optimizer
- Transportation testbeds for automated vehicles and traffic control
2022
- Compositional DSLs for Enhancing Software
- CPS Multi-Domain Modeling via Digital Twins
- Cyber-Physical Systems Virtual Organization
- Data-driven Analysis of Equity and Fairness in Public Transit
- Driver-Assistance Feature Exploration
- Enabling Decentralized Computation Markets using Distributed Ledgers
- Improving Community and Neighborhood Safety Through Open Data Collection
- Multimodal Analytics Pipeline to student Learners’ Problem solving Behaviors
- Neural Network and Machine Learning Verification
- StatResp – A toolchain for statistical methods in emergency response management
- Studying Reinforcement Learning-Based Algorithms for Fault-Tolerant Control
- Tools for Assured Autonomy
2021
- High Performance CPS Co-simulations
- StatResp – A toolchain for statistical methods in emergency response management
- Data-driven Analysis of Equity and Fairness in Public Transit
2020
- CPS Network Simulation with Variable Fidelity
- Cyber-Physical Systems Virtual Organization
- Cybersecurity AI, and Autonomous Systems Research
- Data Science for Micro-Mobility
- Innovative Illustrations of Climate Change in the Classroom
- Neural Network and Machine Learning Verification
- Tools for Assured Autonomy
- Traffic Control with Connected and Autonomous Vehicles