Introduction
IBM Research Scientists are charting the future of Artificial Intelligence, creating breakthroughs in quantum computing, discovering how blockchain will reshape the enterprise, and much more. Join a team that is dedicated to applying science to some of today's most complex challenges, whether it's discovering a new way for doctors to help patients, teaming with environmentalists to clean up our waterways or enabling retailers to personalize customer service.

Your Role and Responsibilities

This is for a 2025 summer internship with the following start dates: May - August or June - September for quarter system schools.

We are broadly interested in making foundation models (FMs) effective for sequential decision making in a range of tasks, particularly those related to efficient agents and their goal driven behavior. We are looking for interns with the following areas of interest:

• Using foundation models for deriving implicit information from textual description.
• Using foundation models to improve planning: before/during/after search.
• Using foundation models for validation/verification of solutions or planning models.
• Reasoning about action and change: efficient goal driven behavior. Pinpoint and tackle the difficulties in producing correct behavior efficiently.
• Planning for query decomposition, thoughts generation and evaluation.

• Applicants should be PhD & MS students pursuing graduate studies in computer science or related fields.
• Having at least one main author research publication at a top conference in AI.

• Familiarity and working expertise with large language models.
• Familiarity with logic such as description logic/first order logic.
• Familiarity with AI Planning and heuristic search.