2025 Summer Research Internship
Prof. Sina Fazelpour is inviting applications for 12-week Research Internship positions during Summer 2025 (June-August or July-September). The successful applicant(s) will collaborate on developing concepts, methodologies, or frameworks that enhance AI evaluation and governance by:
- Advancing human-centered AI evaluation by examining opportunities for human-AI collaboration, and characterizing the impacts of AI-generated outputs on human cognition and behavior.
- Developing systemic evaluation approaches that analyze emergent social dynamics in multi-agent environments, and the societal impacts of AI on epistemic and cultural practices.
- Facilitating robust interdisciplinary collaboration to strengthen responsible AI workforce.
- Integrating diverse perspectives across the AI lifecycle to improve evaluation practices.
This position is open to current PhD students or recent PhD graduates with a demonstrated interest in AI ethics and governance. We welcome applicants from diverse fields relevant to the project, including philosophy, cognitive science, computer science, statistics, human-computer interaction, network science, and science and technology studies. Successful candidates will have experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Evaluating allocative and representational harms of AI
- Collective intelligence
- Human-AI interaction and complementarity
- Sociotechnical approaches to AI evaluation
- Agent-based modeling
- Research on interdisciplinarity
For more details on eligibility, please refer to the “Eligibility Requirements” section. Research Interns will receive $6,000-8,000 per month, and are expected to be physically located in Boston for at least 50% of their internship. Contingent on availability, the interns may be able to choose housing options at Northeastern.
The deadline for applications is March 31, 2025. To apply, please submit the required information in the link below.
2025 Program Details
To be eligible,
- Applicants need to be currently enrolled in or recently graduated from a PhD program, including but not limited to programs at Northeastern University. Applicants from Northeastern University must not be enrolled in another job position at Northeastern for the duration of the internship.
- Applicants need to have unencumbered U.S. work rights or a U.S. student visa to receive payments for the summer internship. We are unable to offer payment to students who are not able to work in the U.S. Applicants need to determine their own eligibility with the visa offices at their home institutions.
Research Interns are expected to be spend at least 50% of their internship in Boston.
Please submit the required information, including those related to the following documents:
- Curriculum Vitae
- Cover Letter: Your cover letter should be no more than 1 page long, and it should address the following:
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- Briefly describe your current position and your current research, and how it connects with the position.
- Describe your research experience and methodologies you are you most familiar with (e.g., literature review, coding, statistics, agent-based modeling and simulation studies, fairness analysis, conceptual analysis, human subject studies, large scale data analysis)
- Tell us what kinds of research interest you and what you hope to achieve from this opportunity.
- 1 Piece of Relevant Writing Sample (could be a published article or a pre-print research paper, dissertation chapter, or other research-related writing)
- Reference letter contact (the letters will only be solicited after the initial review, but you may wish to notify your letter writers in advance, so they will be ready to submit your letter.)
The deadline for applications is March 31, 2025. To apply, please submit the required information in the link below.
Funding for this internship program is provided by Schmidt Futures AI2050 Early Career Fellowship.
If you have any questions about the internship, please contact Prof. Sina Fazelpour, s.fazel-pour@northeastern.edu
Past internships and their information can be accessed through the links bellow.
