[Infovis] Call for interns | NASA Science and Robotics Visualization

[Scott Davidoff]

Come visualize planetary science and robotics data with the NASA JPL / Caltech / Art Center visualization internship, a multi-disciplinary program for computer scientists, designers and artists.

Students will develop creative interactive visualization tools for scientific research/engineering groups selected from a broad set of areas at JPL and Caltech. Working in multidisciplinary teams, students will use methods from User-Centered Design, computing, 3D graphics and interaction design to visualize real data sets that support active scientific research. They will receive mentorship in visualization, computing and design from program co-organizers Hillary Mushkin (Caltech), Scott Davidoff (JPL) and Maggie Hendrie (Art Center) as well as Santiago Lombeyda (Caltech). Students will work closely with scientific or engineering researchers to understand their research and data, identify their visualization needs and determine the relevance of design iterations to their research and data. This should be a good opportunity for students interested in data visualization techniques and real world problems who want to gain experience crossing disciplinary boundaries

WHEN  June 15 - August 20, 2019 (to be confirmed)
WHERE  Pasadena, California
PAY $6.3K undergrad, $8.3K grad

ELIGIBILITY  Applicants must be continuing students. Students graduating before fall 2020 are not eligible to apply.
STUDENTS MUST BE US CITIZENS OR PERMANENT RESIDENTS. GPA must be >= 3.0

APPLICATIONS | via email to datavis at caltech.edu <mailto:datavis at caltech.edu>; including CV (+Portfolio if relevant) and answers to the following:
1. Why do you want to work in visualization?
2. What visualization experience do you have?
3. What example of visualization do you particularly find inspiring and why?
or what example of visualization do you find misleading or ineffective and how would you propose fixing it?

DEADLINE |  Accepting applications now, until the positions are filled.

Questions? Email datavis at caltech.edu <mailto:datavis at caltech.edu>

Scott Davidoff
Senior Manager, Human Interfaces
NASA Jet Propulsion Lab
datavis.caltech.edu <http://datavis.caltech.edu/>