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Sara McMains - Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Additive Manufacturing (aka 3D Printing) is a set of relatively novel manufacturing techniques that were originally used for prototyping but are increasingly used to fabricate end-use parts, which requires higher quality manufacturing. The goal of this project is to improve the quality of 3D printed parts using machine learning...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesRaul Monsalve - Research Scientist, Space Sciences Laboratory
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The Radio Cosmology Group (RCG) at the Space Sciences Laboratory is a leader in the study of the first billion years of the Universe through the design and operation of state-of-the art radio frequency instrumentation to measure radio waves from space. We are seeking an undergraduate research assistant...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesBenjamin Nachman - Research Fellow, Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
This is an exciting time in high energy physics: there are many experimental and theoretical hints for new phenomena (such as dark matter), yet we do not yet have any significant evidence for new particles or forces of nature since the discovery of the Higgs Boson in 2012. This could...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceMarit Oieroset - Research Physicist, Space Sciences Laboratory
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
The Earth’s magnetotail is a dynamic space plasma environment where energy is continuously built up and released in the form of high-speed plasma jets, high energy particles, and bright auroral displays. The main physical process responsible for this energy release is believed to be magnetic reconnection, a universal plasma...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesMitsuo Oka - Research Scientist, Space Sciences Laboratory
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
NASA’s Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) mission consists of a fleet of four spacecraft orbiting Earth. Since its launch in 2015, it has made significant progress in our understanding of the planet's plasma environment, in particular the electron-scale physics of explosive energy-release phenomena. In 2024, NASA will change...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesRusen Oktem - Project Scientist, Earth and Planetary Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The goal of this project is to develop a stereo camera calibration code that will use stellar objects as references. We have multiple stereo cameras that are installed in the field collecting data on atmospheric clouds. We need to use known locations of objects to calibrate these cameras for stereo...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesRusen Oktem - Project Scientist, Earth and Planetary Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
We have been collecting camera images at multiple locations to study atmospheric clouds for the past 6+ years. Extracting clouds from the background is an essential and challenging step before processing these images. The challenges mostly arise from varying environmental conditions and cloud characteristics. The expected outcome of the project...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesSaul Perlmutter - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
A main challenge in time domain astronomy is that of classifying different types of high-energy transients from large datasets solely based on imaging data or sparse spectroscopic observations. As part of this project, the student will use state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to identify different classes of...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesSaul Perlmutter - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Strong gravitational lenses are very rare occurrences and are a powerful tool in studying dark matter and dark energy, two mysterious entities that together account for 95% of the energy in the universe. The strong lensing team works on a range of projects with state-of-the-art computation/machine...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesSaul Perlmutter - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Type Ia supernovae are used to measure the rate at which our Universes is expanding, today and over the past 10 billion years. In the past we used Type Ia supernovae to discover that the expansion of the universe is speeding up. Now we have developed new techniques for doing...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesSaul Perlmutter - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Sense & Sensibility & Science is a project which brings together researchers and educators to improve the way we use science to make decisions. Humans make decisions every day. As individuals, voters, and citizens of the world, the choices we make have the power to shape the world around us. The problem...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesElizabeth Purdom - Professor, Statistics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project involves developing statistical methodologies to analyze data from single-cell sequencing of individual patients. Single-cell sequencing of mRNA measures the amount of mRNA of each gene found in individual cells. It measures the diversity of mRNA within cells, and when performed on many individuals can allow us...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Biological & Health SciencesRobert Rhew - Professor, Geography
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
We are will accept 1-2 spring URAP students to join the Atmospheric Biogeochemistry Laboratory for projects involving the terrestrial sources and sinks of trace gases in the atmosphere, including methane, methyl halides, hydrogen, and hydrocarbons. Students will gain laboratory skills and experience, including: prepping air sampling equipment, conducting laboratory chamber...
Environmental Issues Mathematical and Physical SciencesSayeef Salahuddin - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Location: On Campus
A remarkable development in the recent years has been the demonstration that a nanoscale magnet can be switched by a spin-polarized current, without having to apply any external magnetic field. It is a fascinating phenomenon from two different perspectives. Firstly, this effect is purely mediated by quantum mechanics, but...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesSayeef Salahuddin - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed
It is widely believed that the rate of change in current in conventional MOSFETs cannot be decreased below 60 mV/decade. This means that to change every decade of current one must apply at least 60 mV. As a result, the power supply voltage in modern MOSFETs cannot be reduced...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesSayeef Salahuddin - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Artificial Intelligence is becoming prevalent in many applications. In this research effort we are investigating new ideas of learning and inference. In addition to develop fundamental understanding of the algorithms, we are also designing novel hardware solutions that are specifically suitable for these Learning Machines, going beyond mere implementation of...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesCarlo Sequin - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Students will participate in the development of JIPCAD, a design environment that can describe geometrical shapes (e.g., abstract sculptures by famous artists such as Charles Perry, Eva Hild, or Robert Engman) either through a simple procedural language or through an interactive graphical user interface. The typical workflow would start with...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesMarjorie Shapiro - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most powerful particle accelerator ever built and researchers use its data to study what the universe was like shortly after the big bang. Researchers at Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) play a key role in all aspects of the ATLAS...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Arts & HumanitiesMarjorie Shapiro - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Important collections of historical sound recordings exist in archives, libraries, and museums worldwide. Many of these items are delicate and cannot be played by normal means. In this research project we are applying modern optical scanning methods - confocal microscopy and high resolution digital imaging - in order to obtain detailed maps...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Arts & HumanitiesMarjorie Shapiro - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The aim of this project is to systematically recover and preserve a set of 2700 sound recordings, made in the early 20th Century, of Native American speakers across California. This project is a collaboration between Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and the UC Libraries, The Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, and...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Arts & HumanitiesOswald Siegmund - Research Physicist, Space Sciences Laboratory
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The Experimental Astrophysics Group at the Space Sciences Laboratory is the world leader in space-borne UV detector technology for applications in astronomical and biological research. We are currently seeking undergraduates who would like to learn about, and gain hands-on experience of, the assembly and testing of microchannel plate...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesPark Sinchaisri - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
To be considered, please also complete this form: https://bit.ly/45sjUZw ] Our lab is currently working on multiple research projects of various stages on the topics of human-AI interfaces for various applications in operations management. The overarching goals are to (i) understand how humans learn and make decisions in...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social Sciences Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPark Sinchaisri - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
To be considered, please also complete this form: https://bit.ly/45sjUZw ] We are interested in exploring and understanding worker behavior in the changing nature of work, from gig economy to freelancing to crowdsourcing to remote work. Recent technologies create and accelerate new work arrangements that provide workers with flexibility in...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social Sciences Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesWeijie Sun - Staff Researcher, Space Sciences Laboratory
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Flux Transfer Events (FTEs) are transient phenomena that occur at the boundary between the solar wind and a planet’s magnetosphere, where magnetic reconnection allows the exchange of magnetic flux, plasma and energy. Mercury’s magnetosphere is the smallest and most dynamic among the terrestrial planets, due to its proximity to the...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesHaichen Wang - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most powerful particle accelerator ever built and researchers use its data to study what the universe was like shortly after the big bang. Researchers at Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) play a key role in all aspects of the ATLAS...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesHaichen Wang - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Do you want to contribute to the development of future particle colliders? We are currently developing key analysis tools for future superconducting magnets. The main scope of these tools will be the ability to predict the superconting coil mechanical properties and failure mechanisms during their operation. We are looking for...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesHaichen Wang - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
High-energy physics data analysis deals with a huge amount of data. Machine learning applications are often developed to assist the analysis of data and to improve our understanding of fundamental physics laws. My research group is developing multiple applications for high energy physics experiments, such as the ATLAS experiment...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesHaichen Wang - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Reliably simulating detector response to hadrons is crucial for almost all physics programs at the Large Hadron Collider. The core component of such simulation is the modeling of hadronic interactions. Unfortunately, there is no first-principle theory guidance. The current state-of-the-art simulation tool, Geant4, exploits phenomenology-inspired...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesMartin White - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI, https://desi.lbl.gov) is making the world's largest 3D map of the universe. In this project you will help us develop web-based data access, visualization, and analysis tools for use by thousands of scientists worldwide...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceYen-Jung Wu - Staff Researcher, Space Sciences Laboratory
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
As we enter a new era of space exploration, space weather has garnered significant attention. About 100 years ago, scientists discovered that the Sun's activity influences our planet through the solar wind plasma and energetic particle burst. Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are large expulsions of plasma and magnetic fields from...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesAndreas Zoglauer - Staff Researcher, Space Sciences Laboratory
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
COSI, the Compton Spectrometer and Imager, is a NASA-funded gamma-ray telescope which is currently under development and scheduled for launch in 2027. It will observe Galactic nucleosynthesis and positron annihilation, as well as the most violent events in our Universe (supernovae, neutron star mergers) and the most extreme...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceAndreas Zoglauer - Staff Researcher, Space Sciences Laboratory
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) is a NASA high-altitude balloon mission designed to detect messengers of dark matter interactions in the galaxy. Apprentices are needed to participate in development and testing of both hardware and online software as GAPS prepares for a December 2024 launch from Antarctica. GAPS is...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical Sciences Digital Humanities and Data Science