PREP0003750 Artificial Intelligence Data Researcher

PREP Research Associate

Opportunity No.: PREP0003750

This position is part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Professional Research Experience (PREP) program. NIST recognizes that its research staff may wish to collaborate with researchers at academic institutions on specific projects of mutual interest, and thus requires that such institutions must be the recipient of a PREP award. The PREP program requires staff from a wide range of backgrounds to work on scientific research in many areas. Employees in this position will perform technical work that underpins the scientific research of the collaboration.

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Artificial Intelligence Data Researcher

Project Description:

The applicant who is selected for this position will be part of a team of engineers and researchers conducting research and development (R&D) activities focused on accelerating the development of artificial intelligence communications solutions for first responders.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Research and document public safety AI communications solutions and the datasets that are used to train and test them
• Research, evaluate, and document available AI tools and applications that are the best fit for public safety AI communications solutions
• Document the AI dataset curation process and determine the best target public safety datasets and the dataset enhancement options
• Investigate AI standards organizations and applicability to public safety AI communications solutions and the datasets, and identify opportunities for participation
• Participate in public safety artificial intelligence working groups, standards meetings, and public safety collaborators, and curate shared information from collaborators on their use/witness of AI for public safety communications use cases, challenges, and technological gaps
• Evaluate future public safety artificial intelligence use cases and what datasets could be used to train and test them, as well as identify technology challenges and gaps to address
• Assist with designing and hosting a Public Safety AI Workshop to gather feedback on future public safety artificial intelligence use cases and what datasets could be used to train and test them
• Inform a public safety AI enhancement roadmap

Desired Qualifications: 

• U.S. Citizens Preferred
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or a related field
• Experience with modern AI tools and applications (AWS, GCP, Azure, MLFlow, SQL, BigQuery, Snowflake)
• Knowledge of data structures, formats, and AI data curation processes,
• Experience with identifying data needs for AI use cases, and evaluating dataset quality and representativeness
• Knowledge of software engineering for AI applications
• Knowledge of mathematical probability, statistics, and optimization methods
• Knowledge of machine learning, including supervised and unsupervised learning, deep learning, and model evaluation
• Knowledge of dataset biases and labeling issues
• Knowledge of AI model building
• Knowledge of translating operational needs into solvable AI problems

Other Details:

• Full-time: the participant is expected to work 40 hours a week
• Location: the participant will work at the NIST Boulder, CO Campus and telework.
• Duration: this is expected to be a one-year position. Extensions are sometimes granted depending on the availability of funds.
• For questions related to the research project or the nature of the work in this position, please contact Dr. John Beltz (john.beltz@nist.gov). For questions related to the online application or NIST PREP more generally, please contact msu-nistprep@morgan.edu.

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PREP is a 5-year cooperative agreement between NIST laboratories and participating PREP Universities to establish a collaborative research relationship between NIST and U.S. institutions of higher education in the following disciplines including (but may not be limited to) biochemistry, biological sciences, chemistry, computer science, engineering, electronics, materials science, mathematics, nanoscale science, neutron science, physical science, physics, and statistics. This collection of information is needed to facilitate the administrative functions of the PREP Program.

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