Summer Intern - College of Engineering - Electrical and Computer Engineering
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About this role
The Laboratory of Computational Invention (LOCI)
The Laboratory of Computational Invention (LOCI) is led by PI Andrew Spielberg and was established at Carnegie Mellon University in the ECE Department in Fall 2025. Our mission is to develop methods that enable people to design, build, and deploy complex systems directly from high-level specifications— especially when doing so manually would be difficult, time-consuming, or expensive. Research applications span virtual systems (e.g., game environments), physical systems (e.g., structures), and cyber-physical systems (e.g., robots and assistive devices).
The Laboratory of Computational Invention (LOCI) is building systems that help novices and experts create virtual or physical objects that are difficult to design or fabricate by hand. We are seeking paid research interns for Summer 2026 (~12-14 weeks). We’re a full-stack, interdisciplinary group working across modeling, simulation, computational design, digital fabrication, human-centered tools, and robotics.
In your application, please include 1–2 sentences about something you built and what you learned from it
The internship will be in-person, in Pittsburgh. Project topics are flexible, but will be centered around the lab's themes, and focus on one of the following tracks:
Research tracks:
- Simulation and systems for simulation: Physical simulation, computer graphics, numerical optimization, compilers, programming languages, and program synthesis
- Manufacturing methods and applications: Mechanical design and digital fabrication (3D printing, textiles), mechanisms, materials, biohybrid systems
- Rapid fabrication / process innovation: Developing new manufacturing processes and fabrication pipelines
- Design for deployment (robotics): Contact-rich control, sim-to-real methods, manipulation
- GenAI for design: Generative models (training big or small models), agentic systems for design and making
- Design experiences: HCI and interactive systems, including video game development as a medium for design tools/experiences