Summer Research Assistant (Student)
About the role
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This position is available only to enrolled American University students.
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Department:
College of Arts & Sciences
Time Type:
Part time
FLSA Status:
Non-Exempt
Job Description:
Summary:
The Summer Research Assistant (RA) position will support a research project on continual lifelong anomaly detection in high-stakes environments, with a focus on extending the pyCLAD library to video and graph modalities. Once implementation is complete, the student will help with literature review, dataset preparation, implementation of machine learning experiments, evaluation of anomaly detection models, and documentation of results. The project is especially relevant to applications where rare, evolving, or unexpected events must be detected reliably over time, such as cybersecurity, surveillance, infrastructure monitoring, healthcare, and scientific data analysis.
Essential Functions:
Help with literature review.
Dataset preparation.
Implementation of machine learning experiments.
Evaluation of anomaly detection models.
Documentation of results.
Other duties assigned.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:
Part-time.
5 hours per week.
Salary Range:
$18.40 per hour.
Required Education and Experience:
The position is suitable for students with experience in machine learning, data mining, continual learning, and anomaly detection.
Experience with Python and familiarity with PyTorch is required.
Other Details
This position is available only to enrolled American University students.
Please note this job announcement is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
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