Intern Positions - Honda Research Institute USA

Intern Positions

Currently, HRI-US is offering research and engineering internships to highly qualified and motivated students.  Research interns will work closely with HRI scientists and are encouraged to publish results in academic forums.   For research internship positions, we are looking for candidates with a good publication record and excellent programming skills to join our team. The positions currently listed are for the Spring/Summer 2024.

Current Openings

Computational Models for Human-Aware Systems

Job Number: P22INT-35
​Seamless interaction between humans and automation requires the automation to be aware of human states and resultant behaviors. This position involves developing computational models of the human state as well as optimizing automated ...
San Jose, CA
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Visuo-Linguistic Models for Human-Machine Interaction ...

Job Number: P22INT-37
This project focuses on the development of algorithms that can extract and reason on visuo-linguistic representation of the surrounding environment, aiming to provide support for autonomous systems such as robots and vehicles that ...
San Jose, CA
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Visual Scene Understanding and Common Sense Reasoning ...

Job Number: P22INT-45
​This project focuses on developing computer vision and machine learning algorithms for scene understanding and common-sense reasoning associated with uncertain behavior of interacting agents in mobility domains. It aims towards ...
San Jose, CA
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Human Action Understanding in Long Videos

Job Number: P23INT-01
The project focuses on research and development of computer vision and machine learning algorithms toward understanding of human actions and activities in instructional videos, with particular emphasis on weakly supervised online ...
San Jose, CA
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Visuotactile Perception for Robotic Manipulation ...

Job Number: P23INT-03
We are seeking passionate individuals who will contribute to the development of cutting-edge perception algorithms, integrating computer vision and tactile sensing (visuotactile) to enhance the capabilities of robots in in-hand ...
San Jose, CA
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Human Action Understanding using VLMs and LLMs

Job Number: P23INT-04
This project focuses on research and development of computer vision and machine learning algorithms to recognize, interpret, and predict human actions and activities in videos, with particular emphasis on distress detection.
San Jose, CA
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Affective Computing

Job Number: P23INT-05
This project investigates driver state estimation through multimodal signals. The successful candidate will process and fuse multimodal data, and conduct machine learning experiments to estimate driver affective states of interest. ...
San Jose, CA
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Human factors and Statistical Modeling Research ...

Job Number: P23INT-06
​This project focuses on defining and establishing metrics that can help assess mobility users in different scenarios. The project involves assessing human factors challenges of how people would be impacted by different mobility ...
San Jose, CA
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Multi-Modal Foundation Models for Human-Machine ...

Job Number: P23INT-09
This project focuses on the development of algorithms that can extract and reason on multi-modal representation of the surrounding environment, aiming to provide support for autonomous systems such as robots and vehicles that interact ...
San Jose, CA
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Visual Scene Understanding and Common-Sense Reasoning ...

Job Number: P23INT-10
This project focuses on developing multimodal algorithms for scene understanding and common-sense reasoning associated with behavior uncertainty of interacting agents. It aims towards enhancing transparency, interpretability for ...
San Jose, CA
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Multimodal LLMs for Human Behavior Understanding ...

Job Number: P23INT-11
The project aims to research and develop algorithms based on Multimodal LLMs (aka Large Multimodal Models, Vision-Language Models, etc.) to achieve advancements in human behavior understanding and reasoning tasks. The applications ...
San Jose, CA
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Interpersonal Dynamics Understanding in Human-Human-Robot ...

Job Number: P23INT-12
This project is at the cutting edge of human-human-robot interaction, with the goal of enabling robots to estimate human affective and relational states using visual, audio, and physiological data, and then use these estimates to ...
San Jose, CA
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Behavior Modeling and Interactive Prediction

Job Number: P23INT-14
This project focuses on computational model for human drivers. The task will incorporate predicting the behavior of traffic agents, including in dynamic scenes where the agent may interact with or respond to their surroundings. ...
San Jose, CA
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Task Adaptivity in Autonomous Agents

Job Number: P23INT-19
We are seeking a motivated and innovative research intern to work on a project involving robots learning to adapt to new tasks with minimal prior experience. This includes developing and implementing state-of-the-art approaches ...
Ann, Arbor, MI
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Distributed Team Formation and Role Assignment

Job Number: P23INT-20
We are seeking a highly motivated and innovative research intern to join our team and help us shape the future of robotics and artificial intelligence. This position is specifically focused on Team Formation problem in multi-agent ...
Ann Arbor, MI
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Multi-Agent Task and Motion Planning

Job Number: P23INT-21
We are seeking a highly motivated and innovative research intern to join our team and help us shape the future of robotics and artificial intelligence. The ideal candidate should possess a strong background in robotics, artificial ...
Ann Arbor, MI
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Scene understanding and causal reasoning for ADAS ...

Job Number: P23INT-22
​This project focuses on the driving scene understanding from the ego driver's perspective, and the prediction of risks to the ego vehicle.
San Jose, CA
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Communication and Interaction Research Intern

Job Number: P23INT-23
This project focuses on developing innovative platforms designed to support various communication needs across road users and AI in the mobility domain. The project involves the design and development of prototype interfaces in ...
Ann Arbor, MI
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Intention Aware Decision Making and Planning

Job Number: P23INT-24
This position investigates decision-making and motion planning algorithms for autonomous robots with multi-intentions. The multi-intentions of robots aim to collectively improve the social benefits surrounding the controlled agent. ...
San Jose, CA
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Human Behavior Modeling and Optimization

Job Number: P23INT-25
Human-aware automation requires understanding of human behavior in response to automation actions. This position involves working with user study data to develop behavior models of humans to optimize system design variable and improve ...
San Jose, CA
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Urban Air Mobility Research Intern

Job Number: P23INT-26
This position focuses on defining and assessing the feasibility of remote pilot operations from a human factor engineering perspective. The tasks would include metric selection, examining the solution space of the existing approaches, ...
San Jose, CA
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Semantic Reasoning for Information-Sharing in Multi-Agents ...

Job Number: P23INT-29
We are seeking a research intern with a focus on representation learning and semantic reasoning for multi-agent robotic systems. The ideal candidate needs to have a strong background in machine learning/deep learning with focus ...
Ann Arobor, MI
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Active Learning in Motion Planning

Job Number: P23INT-30
This position investigates motion planning and decision-making algorithms for autonomous driving. This will include research and development for interaction aware motion planning framework. The intern will work on cutting-edge research ...
Ann Arbor, MI
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Navigation under uncertainty

Job Number: P23INT-31
​This project focuses on navigation (decision-making, motion planning, and trajectory generation) under uncertainty arising from various modalities, such as the upstream perception and prediction modules. The task will incorporate ...
San Jose, CA
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Novel-View Synthesis for Human-centric Scenes

Job Number: P23INT-33
This project focuses on the development of algorithms for novel-view synthesis in human-centric scenes. The primary objective is to enable machines to imagine realistic and coherent views of scenes involving humans from different ...
San Jose, CA
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Machine learning for catalyst material design

Job Number: P23INT-35
​This project is about using machine learning to aid the catalyst material design. It involves data collection, database curation, material property simulation, prediction, validation, and optimization.
San Jose, CA
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Mission Planning for Assistive Agents

Job Number: P23INT-36
​This project focuses on the development of mission planning for assistive agents. The primary objective is to enable agents to aid humans by recognizing needs in outdoor settings. Upon identification, the agents will initiate appropriate ...
San Jose, CA
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