National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Graduate PhD Student – Machine Learning Applications for Cyber-Physical Power System Operations Intern

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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Location Type: Remote

Location: ColoradoUnited States

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Salary

💰 $51,200 - $81,900 per year

Job Level

Tech Stack

About the role

  • looking for a year-round intern (summer intern is also acceptable)
  • work on projects developing learning-based analytics
  • cyber-attack-resilient control strategies and optimizations for power distribution systems
  • conducting literature review
  • identifying gaps and summarizing new research opportunities
  • conduct research work independently
  • collaborate with project PI and other researchers from the project team

Requirements

  • Minimum of a 3.0 cumulative grade point average
  • Must be enrolled as a full-time student in a bachelor’s degree program from an accredited institution
  • Earned a bachelor’s degree within the past 12 months
  • Must be enrolled as a full-time student in a master’s degree program from an accredited institution
  • Earned a master’s degree within the past 12 months
  • Completed master’s degree and enrolled as PhD student from an accredited institution
  • Currently enrolled Ph.D. students in power systems engineering, electrical engineering, or other relevant areas
  • Have a good fundamental knowledge of neural networks, state-of-the-art learning algorithms, and their applications to complex systems
  • Experienced in one or more ML/AI techniques, such as reinforcement learning, federated learning, natural language learning, graph neural network
  • Experience working on cyber-physical power systems, ideally on the distribution grid with distributed energy resources (DERs) and modeling of cyber/network components
  • Proficiency in using Python
Benefits
  • medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 403(b) Employee Savings Plan with employer match*
  • sick leave (where required by law)

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
neural networkslearning algorithmsreinforcement learningfederated learningnatural language learninggraph neural networkPythoncyber-physical power systemspower distribution systemsmodeling of cyber/network components
Soft skills
independent researchcollaborationliterature reviewgap identificationsummarization