2023 Projects
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Company: Summit Technology Lab
Project description: Develop an application using a modern UI framework that can take information from a database (e.g. text blurbs, images, videos and hierarchies thereof) and present it in a conducive visualization. We have a real client who will be involved in designing the visualization and getting the information to be presented. The hope is that the client will have a simple, easy, and intuitive interface to upload the information in a database from which the visualization will be generated automatically. The goal is that after the project is done, the updating visualization is self-sustainable. Clients will just go in and update the database through a form/UI which will create content to be added to the visualization automatically.
Skills: Experience in Java/C++/C#, Javascript, and modern UI framework like Angular, ReactJS.
Familiarity with web development frameworks, MySQL, RESTFul Services, JSON, Git, and Agile methodology
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
Ability to work in teams.
Aptitude to explore new technologies, to learn, and to overcome unique challenges.
Can-do attitude.
Project start date: Jan. 9, 2023
Project end date: June 16, 2023
This project is no longer accepting applications, see 2024 Projects.
Company: Summit Technology Lab
Project description: Create a platform that can be used to stream the content projected on Large Display to a computer desktop or mobile devices keeping focus area intact.
Skills: Experience in Java/C++/C#, Javascript, and modern UI framework like Angular, ReactJS.
Familiarity with web development frameworks, MySQL, RESTFul Services, JSON, Git, and Agile methodology.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
Ability to work in teams.
Aptitude to explore new technologies, to learn, and to overcome unique challenges.
Can-do attitude.
Project start date: Jan. 9, 2023
Project end date: June 16, 2023
This project is no longer accepting applications, see 2024 Projects.
Company: Amberstone Biosciences
Project description: The engineering division at Amberstone Biosciences is developing a frontier droplet-based microfluidic platform to assist the discovering of next generation therapeutics. The team urgently requires a fast, robust, and efficient method for fabricating prototypes of microfluidic chips for research and development. A few potential methods and materials have been identified, but more detailed research, prototyping, troubleshooting, and validating are required. We expect the candidate can deliver a fast and low-cost batch fabrication method, a standard operating procedure, and detailed records during the development at the end of the training program.
Phase of Work:
Learn and understand current methods and limitation. Obtain hands-on experience of chip fabrication. (1st month).
Research and prepare for new methods. Start initial test from different methods/materials. (2nd month)
Fabricate microfluidic chips with new methods/materials and testing on the microfluidic platform developed by the engineering team. Optimizing the methods based on the feedback. (3rd month)
Continue optimizing the procedure and obtain comprehensive testing results. (4th month)
Finalize the method, the standard operating procedure, and the final report (5th month)
Skills:
(Ongoing) education in biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related discipline with strong interest in microfluidic-based single cell technologies. Hands-on experience in a laboratory-type environment is a plus. Microfluidic background is highly desired but not required.
Excellent ability to work with a strong focus on planned deliverables (e.g., timely fabrication of microfluidic chips, delivery of a CAD design).
Good communication skills. Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
Project start date: Jan. 1, 2023
Project end date: May 31, 2023
This project is no longer accepting applications, see 2024 Projects.
Company: Amberstone Biosciences
Project description:
We are seeking a highly motivated, detail-oriented, and diligent intern to join our Research & Early Development division at Amberstone Biosciences Inc. Our division focuses on the evaluation and characterization of our “T-MATE” therapeutic leads for immune modulation. The intern position involves a wide-range of biochemical and cell-based assays for the profiling of our T-MATEs.
More specifically, the project will focus on assay developments related to receptor occupancy & receptor internalization for therapeutic leads characterization.
The candidates will report to the Director of Research & Early Development, and will directly work under the supervision of experienced scientists.
Level of experience:
BS, MS or PhD levels are welcome; MS or PhD levels are preferred for this position.
Qualifications:
• (Ongoing) education in Immunology, Cancer biology or Molecular & Cellular Biology (BS, MS or PhD levels are welcome) with a strong interest in immunotherapy, therapeutics development and working in industry (required);
• Knowledge of general cellular biology and related techniques; hands-on experience in cell culture, buffer preparations and flow cytometry are a plus (desired);
• Excellent oral and written communication skills (required);
• Highly organized and dependable to thrive in a fast-pace and collaborative research environment (required);
• Ability to work with a strong focus and complete assignments in a timely manner (required).
Project start date
01/16/2023
Project end date
06/16/2023
This project is no longer accepting applications, see 2024 Projects.
Company: Amberstone Biosciences
Project Description:
We are seeking a highly motivated, detail-oriented, and diligent intern to join our Research & Early Development division at Amberstone Biosciences Inc. Our division focuses on the evaluation and characterization of our “T-MATE” therapeutic leads for immune modulation. The intern position involves a wide-range of biochemical and cell-based assays for the profiling of our T-MATEs.
More specifically, the project will focus tumor cell engineering for T cell engagers pipeline: cell culture (i.e., human tumor cell lines), cell engineering (i.e., virus transduction and/or CRISPR/Cas9 techniques), single cell isolation (i.e., FACS/AmberFlow sorting/single cell cloning), and in vitro characterization and killing assays;
The candidates will report to the Director of Research & Early Development, and will directly work under the supervision of experienced scientists.
Level of experience:
BS, MS or PhD levels are welcome.
Qualifications:
• (Ongoing) education in Immunology, Cancer biology or Molecular & Cellular Biology (BS, MS or PhD levels are welcome) with a strong interest in immunotherapy, therapeutics development and working in industry (required);
• Knowledge of general cellular biology and related techniques; hands-on experience in cell culture, buffer preparations and flow cytometry are a plus (desired);
• Excellent oral and written communication skills (required);
• Highly organized and dependable to thrive in a fast-pace and collaborative research environment (required);
• Ability to work with a strong focus and complete assignments in a timely manner (required).
Project start date:
01/16/2023
Project end date:
06/16/2023
This project is no longer accepting applications, see 2024 Projects.
Company: Aureka Biosciences
Project Description:
We employ innovative single-cell based microfluidic systems for immunotherapeutic discovery. It further combines with emerging technologies, including single-cell sequencing and computational biology to accelerate the drug discovery process. Immunotherapeutics including antibodies, bispecific antibodies, and cell therapies hold great promise to treat the devastating diseases of cancer, autoimmunity, and neurological diseases. Interns will be joining an interdisciplinary team to learn new skills and contribute to drug development that can improve patient outcomes.
Skills:
Students who have any of the following skills are encouraged to apply:
(a) microfluidics design and microfabrication,
(b) software development (e.g. LabView)
(c) molecular biology (e.g. cloning)
(d) cell biology (e.g., cell culture)
(e) antibody and protein engineering
Project start date:
01/09/2023
Project end date:
06/15/2023
This project is no longer accepting applications, see 2024 Projects.
Company: Smilefish
Project Description:
We're focused on data science, machine learning, and advanced cloud computing. We are helping our clients to define and implement a data culture to make better business decisions based on timely, actionable, trusted data. We have been working with UCI for more than 10 years and would like to enable students to gather work experience through active participation in some of our real-world client solutions. We are expanding our data fabric solution and offer to integrate students will full-stack expertise in expanding our mobile and web front-end applications (ReactJS and React Native) and backend services (NodeJS and Python).
Skills:
For our data fabric solutions, we prefer students with Full-Stack experience. ReactJS and React Native mobile and web development. NodeJS and Python backend, and SQL databases. We are looking for highly motivated team players with good communication skills and will commit to providing good guidance via Slack and weekly meetings. Our office is very close to UCI, but most of the work can be done remotely. Some of our data is highly sensitive, and client commitments limit us to applicants with US-Citizenship or GreenCard.
Project start date:
01/09/2023
Project end date:
06/26/2023
This project is no longer accepting applications, see 2024 Projects.
Company: Hesse Mechatronics
Project description:
Many companies work with Hesse Mechatronics on wire bonding their battery packs/modules. Almost everyone of these companies needs to know how much current their wires could handle before fusing. This project will entail the design and building of "dummy" cells that would simulate actual lithium-ion cylindrical cells. You would work in our Tustin wire bond application laboratory along with our application engineers.
Skills:
Mechanical or electrical engineering student.
Project start date:
02/06/2023
Project end date:
06/01/2023
This project is no longer accepting applications, see 2024 Projects.
Company: octane
Project description:
Octane is a non-profit whose mission is to create 55k jobs in So Cal. We have 10 initiatives and only 20 employees. We need a marketing plan for each business unit or initiative.
Level of experience:
Masters or MBA
Skills:
Marketing, defining product, pricing, placement and promotion. We can accept multiple students in this role.
Project start date:
01/16/2023
Project end date:
06/09/2023
This project is no longer accepting applications, see 2024 Projects.
Company: octane
Project description:
Octane is a non-profit whose mission is to create 55k jobs. One of our leading community diversity initiatives is Women Leaders of Octane (WLO) which provides mentoring support for women entrepreneurs, seeks funding for women entrepreneurs, and connect women with corporate boards through our Women's Board Registry. We believe that we can monetize the Women's Board Registry, but only a solid business plan can prove that out.
Level of experience:
Prefer MBA level
Skills:
Required: Finance, Marketing - I'm open to 2 students since it may be difficult to find this skillset in 1 person.
Project start date:
01/16/2023
Project end date:
06/09/2023
This project is no longer accepting applications, see 2024 Projects.
Company: octane
Project description:
Octane is a non-profit whose mission is to create 55k jobs. Our LaunchPad Accelerator has assisted 1500 startups to raise $4.5B in capital. We've created a Decision Intelligence tool, Haystax (Haystax.ai), that can predict a startup's fundability with 90% accuracy. The project is to ingest videos of investor pitches to extract key data to make business decisions on the startup. Can we automate the initial intake and selection process of the accelerator? Can we predict fundability?
Deliverables: video ingestion model, ML Algorithms, world class visualizations
Level of experience:
Preferably a Masters level student in AI and Data Science. This may require multiple students.
Skills:
Required: Machine Learning, Machine Vision, Natural Language Processing, Sentiment Analysis, Speaker separation - I'm open to multiple students as this project requires proficiency and depth in multiple technical skills.
Desired: AWS, Bubble
Project start date:
01/16/2023
Project end date:
06/09/2023
This project is no longer accepting applications, see 2024 Projects.
Company: octane
Project description:
Octane is a non-profit whose mission is to create 55k jobs. Our LaunchPad Accelerator has assisted 1500 startups to raise $4.5B in capital. We've created a Decision Intelligence tool, Haystax (Haystax.ai), that can predict a startup's fundability with 90% accuracy. We already have four customers and our beta program just started! We're growing so fast our old business plan is out of date. We need new market research, competitive analysis, financials, etc.
Level of experience:
Prefer MBA level
Skills:
Required: Finance, Marketing - I'm open to two students since it may be difficult to find this skillset in one person.
Project start date:
01/16/2023
Project end date:
06/09/2023
This project is no longer accepting applications, see 2024 Projects.
Company: octane
Project description:
Octane is a non-profit whose mission is to create 55k jobs in So Cal. We have 10 initiatives and only 20 employees. We need a marketing plan for each business unit or initiative.
Level of experience:
Undergraduate
Skills:
concept drawing, graphic illustration
Project start date:
01/16/2023
Project end date:
06/09/2023
This project is no longer accepting applications, see 2024 Projects.
Company: octane
Project description:
Octane is a non-profit whose mission is to create 55k jobs. One of Octane's newest initiatives is also supported by the Samueli foundation. Healthsocal.ai is a health-tech community impact initiative for Social Good developing data exchange and AI solutions to improve health outcomes and equity for individuals, organizations, and communities. Healthsocal.ai’s solutions focus on helping guide both business investments and personal decisions in an informed and actionable way based on the trends & learnings of the data. Healthsocal.ai’s Population Health Index application is being designed to drive preventative and actionable insights, facilitating AI data-driven interventions for health professionals and patients, starting with mental health as the initial area of focus.
Skills:
Required: Finance and Marketing - This can be two separate students
Project start date:
01/16/2023
Project end date:
06/09/2023
