What are the responsibilities and job description for the Audio/Multimodal AI PhD Intern position at Reality Defender?
Who We Are.
Reality Defender is an award-winning cybersecurity company helping enterprises and governments detect deepfakes and AI-generated media. Utilizing a patented multi-model approach, Reality Defender is robust against the bleeding edge of generative platforms producing video, audio, imagery, and text media. Reality Defender's API-first deepfake detection platform empowers teams and developers alike to identify fraud, disinformation campaigns, and harmful deepfakes in real time.
Backed by world class investors including DCVC, Illuminate Financial, Y Combinator, Booz Allen Hamilton, IBM, Accenture, Rackhouse, and Argon VC, Reality Defender works with leading enterprise clients, financial institutions, and governments in order to ensure AI-generated media is not used for malicious purposes.
Youtube: Reality Defender Wins RSA Most Innovative Startup
The Multimodal AI Internship.
The 4-month internship is designed for current PhD students and candidates to partner with Reality Defender's AI team to conduct cutting-edge research and publish peer-reviewed papers. Your primary collaborators will be Surya Koppisetti, who will guide and advise your efforts within multi-modal deepfake detection. This internship can be performed remotely, although you're welcome to work from our HQ in New York City.
What You'll Do.
Reality Defender is an award-winning cybersecurity company helping enterprises and governments detect deepfakes and AI-generated media. Utilizing a patented multi-model approach, Reality Defender is robust against the bleeding edge of generative platforms producing video, audio, imagery, and text media. Reality Defender's API-first deepfake detection platform empowers teams and developers alike to identify fraud, disinformation campaigns, and harmful deepfakes in real time.
Backed by world class investors including DCVC, Illuminate Financial, Y Combinator, Booz Allen Hamilton, IBM, Accenture, Rackhouse, and Argon VC, Reality Defender works with leading enterprise clients, financial institutions, and governments in order to ensure AI-generated media is not used for malicious purposes.
Youtube: Reality Defender Wins RSA Most Innovative Startup
The Multimodal AI Internship.
The 4-month internship is designed for current PhD students and candidates to partner with Reality Defender's AI team to conduct cutting-edge research and publish peer-reviewed papers. Your primary collaborators will be Surya Koppisetti, who will guide and advise your efforts within multi-modal deepfake detection. This internship can be performed remotely, although you're welcome to work from our HQ in New York City.
What You'll Do.
- Investigate and propose new methods for detecting generative AI content, spanning audio, audio-language, and/or audio-visual modalities
- Perform research on robust deepfake detection and reasoning tasks.
- Collaborate with researchers in the team.
- Write up results of research for internal reports and submission to top tier ML conferences.
- Independently implement and evaluate ideas on modern deep learning stack - Python, PyTorch, and GPU-enabled cloud compute, like AWS/GCP.
- PhD student in a relevant technical field, preferably three or more years into the program
- Experience in multi-modal learning, such as in audio-visual classification and audio-language reasoning.
- Proficient in Python and in building deep learning models with PyTorch.
- Published peer-reviewed research papers in reputable AI and speech venues, e.g. CVPR, NeurIPS, ACL, Interspeech.
- Write up results of research for internal reports and submission to top tier ML conferences.
- Excited about Reality Defender's mission to build a best-in-class and comprehensive deepfake and AI-generated content detection platform.
- Rolling intake, for a minimum internship duration of 4 months.
Salary : $5,000 - $7,000