February 8, 2022

Summer Opportunity at NCSU

The Laboratory for Analytic Sciences is funded by the National Security Agency and is located at NCSU. They have summer opportunities for graduate students. Selected students will receive support for travel and lodging, as well as a stipend for their participation in the 8-week event.

From the LASC:

The Laboratory for Analytic Sciences is sponsoring a summer program this year where we are hoping to bring together faculty, students, government, and industry/national lab researchers to work together for eight weeks around a grand challenge problem. The program is called the Summer Conference on Applied Data Science (SCADS), but we are looking for a range of technical interests. I have attached three flyers for students (LAS_SCADS_S1, S2, S3) and one for faculty (LAS_SCADS_OnePager). The student flyers are tailored to more general interest in DoD/Intelligence Community (S1), data science (S2), and human computer interaction/UX (S3).

Broadly, our areas of interest are:

  • Text Summarization, and Natural Language Processing, generally
  • Knowledge Extraction, Representation, and Management
  • User Interaction Log Analysis
  • Multi-Modal (Text, Video, Audio) Information Extraction
  • AutoML and Continual Learning
  • Content Recommender Systems
  • Automated Narrative Generation
  • User Experience and User-Centered Design
  • Human Computer Interaction
  • Human Factors Psychology
  • Human-Machine Communication
  • Explainable Recommender Systems

The overarching, multi-year challenge of SCADS is to generate tailored daily reports for knowledge workers that capture information relevant to their individual objectives and interests. These tailored daily reports, or “TLDRs,” are fairly short and aim to proactively provide individuals with information relevant to their needs, objectives, and interests. The content of a report may be drawn from any number or variety of sources. The TLDRs are auto-generated through development and application of modern AI/ML, user modeling, and information retrieval technologies and methods. The Intelligence Community manually produces a report of this nature for the U.S. President every morning, summarizing new updates of intelligence information that the President needs to know. The SCADS grand challenge is to automate and optimize such a process in order to scale from a daily report tailored to a single customer, to continually updated reports tailored to the interests of tens of thousands of individuals.

Our website is NCSU Laboratory for Analytic Sciences. We also have a Zoom session for interested students this Friday at 2pm — connection information on the website.

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