Psychology 195B: Fieldwork in Cognitive Science
Hack for LA
Contact: Bonnie Wolfe
E-mail: bonnie@hackforla.org
Address: Remote
Phone: 310-740-1161
Website: https://www.hackforla.org/
Description of Organization and Population Served:
Hack for LA is the Los Angeles Code for America Brigade, a network of civic-minded technologists who contribute their skills toward using the web as a platform for local government and community service. Hack for LA brings together civic-minded volunteers who build digital products, programs, and services with community partners and local government to address issues in the LA region.
Description of Fieldwork Project and Responsibilities of Intern:
We are looking for interns of all different skill types, levels, and civic interests. Depending on your interests and skills, responsibilities range from testing and conducting interviews with stakeholders to writing open source automations.
Special Qualifications:
No special qualifications are required. However, they must have the ability to allocate additional time in order to work on something to contribute.
Hourly Commitment Per Week: 7-10
How does this relate to Cognitive Science?:
Like Cognitive Science, most of the work done around open-source civic tech projects addressing issues such as food security, homelessness, civic participation projects is interdisciplinary. Additionally, students will have the opportunity to work on projects with a social impact and sharpen their skills along the way.
HelloAdvisr
Contact: Laurent Haagsma
E-mail: laurent@helloadvisr.com
Address: Remote ¦ 8601 Lincoln Blvd, Suite 180, Los Angeles, CA 90045
Phone: 323-940-3220
Website: https://www.helloadvisr.com
Description of Organization and Population Served:
We are growth partners helping entrepreneurs and fast-growing companies leverage pricing and best-in-class go-to-market strategies to deliver sustainable high-growth. Most companies struggle with pricing and monetization. In fact, it is a top 5 reason why new ventures fail. Unfortunately, not everyone finds the help they need to tackle these topics. Large companies (and mature startups) use expensive consulting firms; we want to make this accessible to all, so we have developed a suite of technology-based solutions to achieve this.
Description of Fieldwork Project and Responsibilities of Intern:
We have been building a Software layer on top of our existing Advisory services. This product is in stealth mode. We have already conducted successful UAT, validated the need, the business model and sustainable revenue stream. As we conduct further testing, we would like to invite someone to join us in the journey. We have an MVP which is constantly evolving. We estimate we have only tackled 5% of what could be done; but for now, we’re staying focused. Improvements to front-end, back-end, environment, all are up for grabs. We have a plan on what we wish to tackle but we're also very open to new ideas. What will you want to tackle?
Special Qualifications:
* A smart person, willing to think outside the box and happy to have an open discussion. While we have strong expertise in the market we are targeting; we are playing in an unchartered territory when it comes to how we are tackling it. * An entrepreneurial spirit. Willing to be agile, learn on the go, go beyond what a standard developer would do in a bigger team * A tinkerer, pursuing a technical degree or with equivalent experience with a strong foundation in the fundamentals of computer science, a strong development basis and a willingness to find solutions on their own. * We are not developers ourselves but have worked alongside them so we know the language (just don’t expect us to be purists when it comes to naming things!). * Skillsets which we're interested in: full stack (tackle both the front and the back-end of the issue); good basis in modern web development, frameworks, programming languages, and database solutions; ability to work on a solution together with non-tech specialists * Due to the global nature of our team, the ability to spend a few hours either early morning PST or late evening PST (Hours flexible under prior arrangement). You will still have a point of contact the whole day PST.
Hourly Commitment Per Week: 10-20 (flexible)
How does this relate to Cognitive Science?:
When talking pricing, we are tackling a topic that everyone knows, but very few actually comprehend. Pricing is not just 1 number; it is thousands of decisions. It is not just building an algorithm; it is also understanding how different people will tackle the elements of this algorithm. It is building a medium that offers as much coaching as it does number crunching.
HTC, Vive Studios
Contact: Chris Chin
E-mail: Chris_Chin@htc.com
Address: 5200 W Century Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90045
Phone: 310-955-6464
Website: https://developer.vive.com/us/vive-studios/
Description of Organization and Population Served:
HTC Vive is a virtual reality platform developed in partnership by HTC and Valve. Designed from the ground up for room-scale VR, Vive allows true-to-life interactions and experiences thanks to an adjustable headset displaying stunning graphics, two wireless controllers with HD haptic feedback and 360˚ absolute motion tracking. Vive Studios’ mission is to discover and empower development talent, and give everyone access to content that pushes the boundaries of VR.
Description of Fieldwork Project and Responsibilities of Intern:
The Vive Studios Team is looking for a Developer Relations Intern for testing and development support for current and new VR projects. The intern would help provide the technical knowledge, tools, and resources necessary to support and promote our developer facing offerings to content creators and partners. This individual will be part of a team that will drive the creation of innovative experiences and high-quality content through the developer community. This individual will be a key contributor in engaging and supporting developers and partners, elevating Vive technology, and enabling meaningful high-quality content submissions to our distribution platform.
Special Qualifications:
Experience as a developer with a focus on VR and mobile technologies Experience with C# or C++ coding for 3D graphics Experience with both Unity and Unreal game engine technology and engine performance optimization Active member in developer user groups and engagement with groups driving development efforts Excellent documentation and presentation creation skills Excellent oral, written and public presentation skills Ability to work well within a team is a must.
Hourly Commitment Per Week: 10-20
How does this relate to Cognitive Science?:
Virtual Reality leverages our visual and auditory perception through immersive virtual experiences, which can be advantageous in furthering our understanding of the mind, memory, and our senses. A Cognitive Science student can apply their interdisciplinary background in human psychology, neuroscience, and computer science to aid in developing embodied 3D spatial content that feel immersive to the brain. With hand-tracking, eye-tracking, and even lip-tracking - a Cognitive Science student would be able to explore the frontiers of mixed and virtual reality while gaining industry experience driving efforts to support the VR developer ecosystem
Jazz Hands For Autism
Contact: Ifunanya Nweke
E-mail: Info@jazzhandsforautism.org
Address: 10880 Wilshire Blvd, ste 800
Phone: 4242097190
Website: http://www.jazzhandsforautism.org
Description of Organization and Population Served:
Jazz Hands For Autism is a nonprofit organization that provides job development, job training and job placement for adults on the autism spectrum. Through the Jazz Hands Concert Series and the Jazz Hands Musicians Academy, Jazz Hands For Autism helps musicians on the autism spectrum develop transferrable social, professional and on stage skills that increase employability and their success as working musicians.
Description of Fieldwork Project and Responsibilities of Intern:
Positions: 1. Public Policy Intern: Researching legislation issues Identifying supportive government figures and organizations. Providing research support in development of advocacy positions and funding opportunities 2. Development Intern: Assisting with grant-writing and donor relations. 3. Teacher's Assistant Intern: Assisting with class instruction, monitoring daily student behavior and daily student progress (Jazz Hands Musician's Academy) 4. Student Mentor Intern: Assisting students with non-musical and non-social goals (Jazz Hands Musician's Academy) 5. Research & Evaluation Intern Assisting staff with compiling and analyzing student data trends to help ensure long term student progress (Jazz Hands Musician's Academy) 6. Information Analyst Intern: Providing non-experimental and theoretical research support on topics relevant to music and autism.
Special Qualifications:
Positions: 1. Public Policy Intern: ability to research and analyze data 2. Development Intern: strong writing skills, experience using MS excel/ Google sheets and other data bases 3. Teacher's Assistant Intern: ability to collect, track and analyze data 4. Student Mentor Intern: ability to understand mental processes and give positive feedback 5. Research & Evaluation Intern: ability to compile and analyze data and make inferences from collected data 6. Information Analyst Intern: ability to review information and data and write pieces about it.
Hourly Commitment Per Week: 8-10
How does this relate to Cognitive Science?:
Positions: 1. Public Policy Intern: public policy affects every domain and discipline so familiarity with public policy as it relates to mental health, cognitive deficits, etc greatly informs practice. 2. Development Intern: this internship provides students with real world experience in learning how to track, and maintain multi faceted information on a database which is important to the cognitive science discipline 3. Teacher's Assistant Intern: this internship provides students with real world experience in collecting potentially quantitative data, codifying data and tracking data which is important to the cognitive science discipline 4. Student Mentor Intern: this internship provides students with real world experience in interacting with clients who have a developmental disability and exploring ways to provide positive feedback. 5. Research & Evaluation Intern: this internship provides students with real world experience in compiling and analyzing data and making inferences from collected data 6. Information Analyst Intern: this internship provides students with experience in review information and data and writing pieces about it.
KAV
Contact: Whitman Kwok
E-mail: whitman@kavsports.com
Address: 520 Broadway, Santa Monica
Phone: (650) 440-6588
Website: http://kavsports.com
Description of Organization and Population Served:
KAV is at the intersection of sports, science and software building helmets that are custom fit to the athlete. We started with hockey which has one of the highest rates of head trauma per activity hour and are launching our bike helmet for one of the most popular activities. In all cases, we find that offering over 8 billion sizes improves comfort, protection and aesthetics.
Description of Fieldwork Project and Responsibilities of Intern:
The intern will utilize web programming, statistics and data to implement an online fit quiz which helps athletes find the best fitting helmet with a few easy measurements. This is an opportunity to engage with the KAV community, build a useful web application and perform analytics to improve the customer experience.
Special Qualifications:
• Driven - as your interaction with the team will largely be text, calls and a weekly hour meeting, interns must be self-motivated and operate with a high degree of autonomy. • Analytical skills - both projects benefit from A/B testing, analytics and user engagement to optimize both the online experience and community engagement. • HTML, CSS and Javascript experience to modify our website to post instructional content but also create a seamless (and ideally fun) UX as the person measures and provides their data. Experience with the Apple ecosystem is a plus. • Photography, videography, graphics skills are a nice to have to generate professional content
Hourly Commitment Per Week: 12-15
How does this relate to Cognitive Science?:
Your work engages your coursework in the following ways: • Analyze and learn how customer experiences can be optimized for their enjoyment and benefit • Implement new technology (AR) in a meaningful and beneficial application • Learn how to build a community and relationships to accelerate our mission of protecting the next generation of athletes.
Los Angeles Education Research Institute at UCLA Luskin
Contact: Carrie Miller
E-mail: cemiller@ucla.edu
Address: 6241, Public Affairs Building, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656
Phone: 5085050451
Website: http://laeri.luskin.ucla.edu
Description of Organization and Population Served:
The Los Angeles Education Research Institute (LAERI) at UCLA Luskin conducts research to inform solutions to educational challenges facing L.A. Our mission is to improve the equity and quality of students’ educational experiences by producing research evidence that decision-makers and educators find useful for educational improvement.
Description of Fieldwork Project and Responsibilities of Intern:
LAERI seeks an undergraduate research assistant to work part-time to help create and revise data documentation that will facilitate research on a wide range of research projects related to education in Los Angeles. Job Responsibilities include: • Review historical documentation for the Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) annual School Experience and College and Career Readiness Surveys • Develop data documentation for LAUSD surveys that will facilitate future research projects • Review existing documentation for Los Angeles Unified School District administrative data • Revise and update existing administrative data documentation to improve usability • Produce descriptive statistics and update administrative data documentation to include information about potential data issues to improve the documentation’s accuracy.
Special Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications: • Current undergraduate student • Strong organizational skills • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Excellent attention to detail • Ability to work independently and meet deadlines Preferred Qualifications: • At least one course in statistics • Familiarity with statistical software.
Hourly Commitment Per Week: 10
How does this relate to Cognitive Science?:
Research interns will develop data management and statistical skills that are broadly applicable to social and behavioral science research. Interns will also have to the opportunity to explore topics related to children’s educational experiences and wellbeing from early childhood through late adolescence.
Neuralace Medical
Contact: Joe Milkovits
E-mail: joe@neuralacemedical.com
Address: 3770 Tansy St. #101, San Diego, CA 92121
Phone: 858-229-9218
Website: http://neuralacemedical.com
Description of Organization and Population Served:
A medical start up company developing and commercializing a non-invasive, non-opioid pain therapy for chronic, intractable nerve pain.
Description of Fieldwork Project and Responsibilities of Intern:
The fieldwork project will be to support 2 Axon Therapy clinical trials under the supervision of Neuralace CEO Shiv Shukla. Responsibilities will include working with the lead clinician on data capture and analysis, engagement with patients and practitioners to refine and document the therapy and other activities to ensure successful progress of the trial. We are also interested in entertaining candidates who are willing to do research projects with regards to improving our therapy and doing mechanistic studies of the neuropathic process within the body.
Special Qualifications:
Intern must be self motivated, creative, and able to work on a variety of different projects. Must be able to work with and understand data, and be able to use information from data to inform the team how treatment sessions are performing as well as how the device is operating. Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills are required for oversight of clinical trials. Programming experience preferred.
Hourly Commitment Per Week: 20-40
How does this relate to Cognitive Science?:
Combining statistical, computational, clinical, and psychological methods will help NeuraLace develop its product as well as assist patients seeking an alternative treatment for neuropathy and pain. Basic understanding of neuroscience concepts are also essential in understanding how the device works and its positive effect on patients.
NextBest AI, Inc
Contact: Minh Mai
E-mail: minh@nextbest.com
Address: 200 De Neve Drive, Los Angeles, CA (Covel Commons)
Phone: 7142249798
Website: https://nextbest.com
Description of Organization and Population Served:
NextBest is an online marketplace where users can search, shop, and sell apparel among their local community. Existing local marketplace platforms have a generic design that is not pleasant for shopping fashion. By prioritizing the value of community and offering the user experience customers expect from shopping apps, NextBest makes shopping and selling secondhand apparel more convenient, enjoyable, and efficient.
Description of Fieldwork Project and Responsibilities of Intern:
We are looking for a) Software Engineering Interns, b) Product Design or UX/UI Interns, and C) Marketing Interns. We are a small startup team focused on increasing our user base and improving our product as quickly as possible. Because of that, all interns will have the opportunity to work extensively on individualized and high impact projects throughout the quarter. Come join the team!
Special Qualifications:
Please shoot us an email that includes your resume, the position you are interested in, and a short tidbit as to why you are a great fit for the NextBest team. Interest in entrepreneurship, fashion, e-commerce, and/or product development is a huge plus.
Hourly Commitment Per Week: 7-12
How does this relate to Cognitive Science?:
Product development, product design, and product marketing all require an extensive application of human focused processes. At NextBest AI, we strive to create solutions that simplify and improve the lives of our users. A strong understanding of the mind and human behavior is necessary to do so.
Pareto Operations Intern
Contact: Phoebe Yao
E-mail: phoebe@hellopareto.com
Address: 8145 Halifax Drive, Saint Louis, MO
Phone: 3144593291
Website: http://www.hellopareto.com
Description of Organization and Population Served:
Pareto helps startup founders overcome the distinct challenges at every stage of the entrepreneurial journey. Whether you’re exploring a new idea, launching your MVP, or scaling to 1M users, the Pareto team takes care of handling tedious or repetitive tasks.
Description of Fieldwork Project and Responsibilities of Intern:
The Intern will be responsible for (but not limited to): Business Operations and Product Development - learning and assisting with research into operations team behavior, developing strategic product roadmaps based on research, and building workflow automation to streamline team behavior.
Special Qualifications:
Understanding of product roadmaps and lifecycles through previous product management experience preferred. Company value alignment and previous experience working in a startup environment.
Hourly Commitment Per Week: 20
How does this relate to Cognitive Science?:
The product operations/management role requires the intern to apply technical skills learned in programming courses, understanding of behavior/thinking of clients learned in psychology coursework, and analysis of data/metrics learned from mathematics/statistics coursework. The skills acquired through the interdisciplinary nature of the Cognitive Science major will allow the intern to successfully manage projects and help scale the future of Pareto’s business.
Plan Provide
Contact: Mark Lee
E-mail: mark@planprovide.com
Address: 202 Bicknell Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90405
Phone: 8588636533
Website: https://www.planprovide.com
Description of Organization and Population Served:
Plan Provide helps insurance professionals enroll seniors in their optimal Medicare plan. Founded by LA’s Mucker Capital and Techstars alum, Plan Provide is a tech startup aimed at simplifying health insurance for seniors. Those turning 65 in the US are overwhelmed by the hundreds of Medicare plans to choose from and there are no good resources to help with making this choice. We are on a mission to make Medicare simple by providing the best tools to those helping the individuals
Description of Fieldwork Project and Responsibilities of Intern:
The marketing intern will work closely with the CEO to ultimately drive customer growth through the company’s marketing and sales efforts. Tasks include content marketing for our website, email marketing and social media. We will work with the numbers to see how things are performing using the latest analytics tools. Finally, the intern may help with data-collection tasks to enable the company to better understand overall sales and marketing performance. The intern will gain a wide exposure to various aspects of a early stage tech startup.
Special Qualifications:
Those with a technical or mathematics background will work with Python, ReactJS, and SQL. For marketing, we look for both a data-driven mindset to make sense of the numbers and a creative mentality to brainstorm ideas that can boost our growth. Healthcare and insurance are highly complex areas and will require high detail orientation.
Hourly Commitment Per Week: 10
How does this relate to Cognitive Science?:
We use insights derived from user behavior to ultimately get the user to move through the marketing funnel. The human-computer interaction is integral to our user experience and one that is rooted in behavioral and cognitive sciences.
Purveyists
Contact: Grace Bukunmi
E-mail: info@bukunmigrace.com
Address: 9200 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069
Phone: 7086465218
Website: http://www.bukunmigrace.com/
Description of Organization and Population Served:
Purveyists is a creative collective that specializes in digital content, marketing, photography, styling, art direction, seeding, editorial and celebrity placement and creative consulting. Founded by Bukunmi Grace, the collective was created to address the artistic needs of major publication, brands, publicists, and musicians. Thus connecting the dots between established and upcoming artists and established and upcoming brands with the most adept creative tools and resources.
Description of Fieldwork Project and Responsibilities of Intern:
Purveyists seeks digital content, photography and styling interns interested in fashion, music, social entrepreneurship and leadership. Intern must have the ability to strategize and implement on-brand digital content within the publishing, fashion and music sector. Intern will be required to conceptualize creative campaigns, contact new and current clients, manage project, manage social media outreach and engagement, research market trends and organize schedules. Photo interns will be required to assist on photo shoots and help create engaging content. as well as day to day operations including administrative duties, brainstorms and content scheduling.
Special Qualifications:
Intern must be creative, highly skilled, willing to learn, computer literate, administratively adept, consistent, results driven and polite. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Entrepreneurial mindset and discerning eye for content, copy and style is a must. Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Wordpress and Excel proficiency s is a +
Hourly Commitment Per Week: 12-16
How does this relate to Cognitive Science?:
Enhances ability to work in multi-disciplinary environment while developing best system processes for organization and business development. Furthers understanding of business psychology, communication and linguistic
RegiStart
Contact: Sean van Dril
E-mail: sean.vandril@registart.org
Address: 2232 Central Park Ave. Evanston, IL 60201
Phone: 6308049289
Website: http://registart.org
Description of Organization and Population Served:
RegiStart is a nonpartisan nonprofit that builds technology and curriculum to help high school students get engaged in democracy. RegiStart has its own mobile app with curriculum to allow students in the senior year of high school to learn more about the importance of voting and how to register to vote.
Description of Fieldwork Project and Responsibilities of Intern:
The intern will assist us with program assessment in order to improve and determine the impact of our platform. Their responsibilities will include identifying key metrics to assess the effectiveness of our program, analyzing data, and developing systems to capture data needed for program assessment.
Special Qualifications:
The intern should have experience in data analysis.
Hourly Commitment Per Week: 10
How does this relate to Cognitive Science?:
All interns will be required to consider the organizational psychology of students and teachers. User/consumer behavior and data analytics are centered on skillsets core to Cognitive Science, such as a data-driven and interdisciplinary approach to understanding multiple perspectives
Research Assistant at Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies
Contact: Nicco Reggente, Ph.D.
E-mail: nicco@advancedconsciousness.org
Address: 2811 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 510 Santa Monica, CA 90403
Phone: 3109079216
Website: https://www.advancedconsciousness.org
Description of Organization and Population Served:
We leverage neuroimaging, neuromodulation, neurofeedback and virtual reality to assist individuals with transitioning into personalized, favorable states of consciousness.
Description of Fieldwork Project and Responsibilities of Intern:
The intern will serve as a Research Assistant to the Principal Investigator in scheduling participants, issuing behavioral questionnaires, preparing EEG and stimulus presentation software, and assisting with data organization and analysis.
Special Qualifications:
Experience with EEG and Python is a bonus. Otherwise, no special qualifications. All training will be provided on-site.
Hourly Commitment Per Week: 8
How does this relate to Cognitive Science?:
Our protocols are centered around determining neural correlates of consciousness and using neurofeedback and neuromodulation to re-instantiate those correlates.
Rice Games
Contact: Julian Rice
E-mail: julian@ricegames.net
Address: 11210 W Sardis Ave #202 Los Angeles CA 90064
Phone: 4157062315
Website: http://www.ricegames.net
Description of Organization and Population Served:
Rice Games is a brand new indie game studio filled with entrepreneurial spirits that are looking to design and create video games that change the industry. Founded in September 2018, Rice Games is a lean startup that may still be in its infancy, but is looking to enthrall core gamers and language learners alike through their first project, Shujinkou.
Description of Fieldwork Project and Responsibilities of Intern:
Interns will be able to gain skills in this unique dual internship, spending odd weeks learning about entrepreneurial marketing and social media data analysis, and spending even weeks working on small, but complex video game projects that will help develop a mind for game logic, proper design, and clean and efficient programming. The final will be a multipage single-spaced essay that will consist of research on appealing and creating new markets, as well as portions on efficient programming and the steps behind designing a fun to play video game.
Special Qualifications:
Interns should be familiar with some programming language (C++ preferred, basic knowledge of classes), with at least PIC10A completed. Skilled writers and those that are passionate with numbers and video games is a plus.
Hourly Commitment Per Week: 10-15
How does this relate to Cognitive Science?:
Understanding the relationship between a person's known interests and unknown interests is a key component in designing video games that attempt to appeal not only to core gamers, but to new markets as well. Using visual stimuli and storytelling within Rice Games' projects will be able to invoke emotions from players, and one big goal of this internship is to find ways to bring out many emotions from the player. Further developing programming logic and intuition through video game programming will allow the Intern to become a more proficient programmer, and data analysis and advanced topics such as Machine Learning and Computational Linguistics will become easier to pick up.
Rydeen Mobile Electronics
Contact: Joy Yang
E-mail: jyang@rydeenmobile.com
Address: 2701 Plaza del Amo # 705, Torrance, CA 90503
Phone: (310) 787-7880
Website: https://rydeenmobile.com/
Description of Organization and Population Served:
Rydeen is a mobile electronics manufacturer that specializes in automotive safety. Rydeen's mission is to provide the safest vehicle driving experience with solution-based products and technologies. Here at Rydeen, we are aiming for zero auto accidents & auto thefts, thus creating "peace of mind every day" to drivers worldwide!
Description of Fieldwork Project and Responsibilities of Intern:
Here at Rydeen, we pride ourselves on creating cutting-edge technology in order to keep drivers safe. As an intern at Rydeen, you will be tasked with creating and executing new ideas based on automotive safety. An example of a project would be assisting in creating UI for automated cars that people can easily understand and learn. Interns are expected to communicate well with their team and contribute to new ideas for automotive products.
Special Qualifications:
An ideal candidate for this position would be one who is communicative and willing to learn. We do not expect you to be an expert at coding, but we do expect that you are making an effort to expand on your skills and learn. As an intern at Rydeen, you will be tasked with not only technical work but also communication and interpersonal skills.
Hourly Commitment Per Week: 7-10
How does this relate to Cognitive Science?:
At Rydeen, we emphasize the importance of the connection between the user and technology. We believe that Cognitive Science students perfectly fit into this belief as many of your courses have taught you to think in multidisciplinary ways. This internship will help students understand human interaction with technology by allowing them to explore and create new technological ideas for automotive safety.
Services Engineering Intern at Data Gumbo
Contact: Henry St Aubyn
E-mail: h.staubyn@datagumbo.com
Address: Data Gumbo Corporation C/O The Cannon 1334 Brittmoore Road, Suite 175 Houston, Texas 77043 (remote internship)
Phone: 281-909-0781
Website: https://www.datagumbo.com/
Description of Organization and Population Served:
The company started out as a data platform that connected to collected and standardized operational data to enable machine learning, AI and condition-based maintenance systems. The company is utilizing blockchain to build a complete solution that unifies operational source data together with an industrial-grade blockchain solution.
Description of Fieldwork Project and Responsibilities of Intern:
Developing a deeper understanding of blockchain through hands-on work. Interpreting the functional requirements of automating smart contracts by understanding the requests of clients. learning how to extract data, bridging the gap between the code and Data Gumbo's existing library of smart contracts.
Special Qualifications:
Previous coding experience, data analytics
Hourly Commitment Per Week: 20
How does this relate to Cognitive Science?:
This internship requires the knowledge of computational and coding skills, data extraction and analysis. The intern also has to look at the requirements of various clients and adjust the product to meet the target audience's needs. The intern can do so by using fundamental concepts of Cognitive Science.
Software Development Internship with Formosi
Contact: Stephen Pemberton
E-mail: frontdesk@formosi.com
Address: 2150 Park Pl #100, El Segundo, CA 90245
Phone: (310) 562-6207
Website: https://www.formosi.com
Description of Organization and Population Served:
Formosi is the premier beauty and marketing agency in the greater Los Angeles area. We serve as the bridge that connects consumers to health and beauty professionals.
Description of Fieldwork Project and Responsibilities of Intern:
Formosi is looking for software engineers to build online services that connect users to beauty and health professionals. Prospective interns should be eager to learn, work well in team settings, and have a sense of responsibility. We have positions available in various aspects of software development. Web development team uses React JS to create responsive webpages. Mobile development team uses SwiftUI to develop iOS apps. Backend team uses Spring framework to build reliable services. Depending on intern’s profile and preference, he or she will be placed in one of the development teams.
Special Qualifications:
Interns should have general knowledge of programming and be proficient in at least one modern programming language. However, they can learn about the specific tools we use during their internship.
Hourly Commitment Per Week: 16
How does this relate to Cognitive Science?:
Interns are required to not only create services using computer science fundamentals but also use psychology knowledge to develop user-friendly interaction patterns. This internship allows students to practice the psychology and computer science they acquired in their Cognitive Science courses.
The Integrated Clinic
Contact: Lev Gottlieb, PhD
E-mail: Admin@TheIntegratedClinic.com
Address: 2811 Wilshire Blvd Suites 680, 690, & 790, Santa Monica, CA 90403
Phone: (424) 226-6128
Website: https://www.theintegratedclinic.com
Description of Organization and Population Served:
The Integrated Clinic provides client-centered, collaborative, coordinated care to clients, leveraging the latest advances in neuroscience and technology in order to foster health, wellness, and performance. Our team comprises leading clinicians and researchers from allied fields including neuropsychology, cognitive rehabilitation, sleep & behavioral medicine, biofeedback, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech-language therapy, educational therapy, and nutritional counseling. Together, we work synergistically to offer scientifically-informed and seamless care that promotes patient outcomes.
Description of Fieldwork Project and Responsibilities of Intern:
This internship will involve interns in applied science and media/technology within an interdisciplinary health and wellness clinic. Roles may include business development, market research, UX/UI design, social media, video editing and production, website and newsletter management, provider outreach, administrative and back-end support, and data informatics and analytics.
Special Qualifications:
No special qualifications are required. However the intern must be motivated and diligent. Creative and entrepreneurial interest would be additive. Familiarity with technology and/or media would also be helpful. Relevant computer skills: Python, HTML, Heroku, AWS, Google Drive, Squarespace, Slack, Jira, Miro, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premier Pro, Canva, Firebase, Xcode, GitHub, GitLab, social media platforms.
Hourly Commitment Per Week: 7
How does this relate to Cognitive Science?:
Our Clinic is guided by the study of brain-behavior relationships--comprising functional neuroanatomy and the study of thought, learning, and mental organization--and thus by definition relates to cognitive science.
Tutorfly Software Development OR Strategic Growth Intern
Contact: Alejandro Mendoza (Software Development) | Parsa Rezvani (Strategic Growth)
E-mail: info@tutorfly.org
Address: 200 De Neve Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Phone: (424) 653-6159
Website: https://www.tutorfly.org
Description of Organization and Population Served:
Tutorfly is an education technology platform that is working to level the access to educational help outside of the classroom, specifically through peer tutoring. We focus on sourcing high school and university students as peer tutors, 20% of whom decide to volunteer to raise money for local charities and PTA groups. We have over 1,200 tutors on the platform that use our web and mobile apps to connect with clients.
Description of Fieldwork Project and Responsibilities of Intern:
You can choose one of the two roles to apply for: Software Development: -Work with our CTO to design and implement changes to the Tutorfly site. Strategic Growth: -Use various techniques to drive traffic to our website, with the ultimate goal of increasing user acquisition. -Identify and optimize growth channels -Create lasting symbiotic partnerships with various groups.
Special Qualifications:
Software Development: -You should be well versed in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills. -Knowledge of the Material UI framework (front end) as well as express/GraphQL (back end) is preferred too. User Acquisition: Willing and able to forge relationships with complementary groups of teachers, parents, and students. -Experience with as many of the frameworks as possible from the following book: TRACTION: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers. By: Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares. Both: -Have tutoring experience and great communication skills. -Comfortable asking questions and learning at a rapid pace.
Hourly Commitment Per Week: 15
How does this relate to Cognitive Science?:
For both positions listed above, it's imperative to always understand what leads a customer to wanting to schedule a tutoring session. In most cases, our customers are parents, but parents have a wide array of different behaviors based upon a slew of factors. Through user surveys, research, analyzing data, and applying techniques learned in the classroom, interns should use their cognitive science studies to propel their work forward in this internship.
UCLA Instructional Design Internship (Environment, Health and Safety)
Contact: Karin Wasler
E-mail: kwasler@ehs.ucla.edu
Address: 501 Westwood Plaza, 4th Floor, Box 951605
Phone: 3107945669
Website: https://ehs.ucla.edu/
Description of Organization and Population Served:
EH&S Training designs safety-based web and mobile learning, videos and classroom training for campus employees using eLearning tools and strategies. Our programs educate UCLA personnel in identifying workplace hazards and reducing accidents and exposure to harmful situations and substances (think earthquakes, fires, explosions, and workplace injuries).
Description of Fieldwork Project and Responsibilities of Intern:
The Instructional Design Intern is a paid internship that partners with the EH&S Training Team and Subject Matter Experts to create effective online instruction, presentations, videos and/or graphics. You will learn the instructional design process for an educational program as you create new e-learning modules and presentations, convert pre-existing modules to UCLA-specific content, create videos or design graphics. Interns available for two quarters are highly preferred. The position will be conducted remotely until further notice.
Special Qualifications:
Strongly desired qualifications: Familiarity with video editing and design software (or a strong motivation to learn them); Excellent communication/presentation skills; experience in tutoring or teaching; proficiency with Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop/InDesign/Illustrator/Premiere Pro, Figma, Canva, Zoom a plus.
Hourly Commitment Per Week: 10-19
How does this relate to Cognitive Science?:
Effective eLearning, videos and in-person training draw from knowledge of how people learn and absorb information. Put your classroom education to work as you help us design instructional materials and videos.