January 06, 2025
The LTI is currently seeking applicants for the summer 2025 Language Technology for All Internship
Are you interested in learning more about the world of language technology, like ChatGPT, Google Translate, or talking robots?
The Language Technologies Institute in Carnegie Mellon University is recruiting interns for Summer 2025. The topic of the internship will be “Language Technology For All,” where you will focus on performing research on cutting-edge language systems to make them more accurate, efficient, or inclusive.
Internship topics are broad, and some example topics are:
- AI programming agents to make programming more accessible
- More efficient language models that can be run directly on your mobile devices
- Pre-training methods for language models that better cover diverse perspectives
- Methods to audit the fairness, biases, and safety of language models
- Methods to improve the multilingual and multicultural capabilities of language models
The main goal of this internship is to provide opportunities to pre-doctoral students who are interested in starting work in the field of language technology. You will work together with a CMU faculty member on a research project, with the goal being that you build skills while performing cutting-edge research. We particularly encourage interns who are:
- interested in making more inclusive language technology, and/or
- come from backgrounds relevant to language technology outside of computer science (e.g. linguistics, cognitive science, sociology, etc.)
If you are a student looking to get into, or expand your depth in research in language technology, we encourage you to apply!
The internship will be for 12-14 weeks over the summer (mid-May to Mid-September) in-person at CMU’s campus in Pittsburgh. We will pay for your travel to Pittsburgh, and provide a stipend to cover your housing and daily expenses.
Apply here: https://forms.gle/BK5DRaW4yJdiMtp78
FAQ
Q: Do you offer remote options for the internship?
A: No, the internship will be in-person.
Q: Is the timing fixed?
A: There is some flexibility within the summer period, but we expect the majority of the visit to be within the period of mid-May to mid-September 2025.
