Human-Centered Applied Behavioral Science InternToyota Research Institute

At Toyota Research Institute (TRI), we’re on a mission to improve the quality of human life. We’re developing new tools and capabilities to amplify the human experience. To lead this transformative shift in mobility, we’ve built a world-class team in Human-Centered AI, Human Interactive Driving, Energy and Materials, Machine Learning, and Robotics.

This is a Summer 2024 paid 12-week internship opportunity. Please note that this internship will be a hybrid in-office role.

This internship opportunity falls within the Carbon Neutrality Department in the Human-Centered AI Division (HCAI). At the core of our research, we aim to understand, simulate, and shape carbon-neutral behaviors and the technology that enables them.

We are an integrated team of behavioral scientists, machine learning researchers, and human-computer interaction experts. Our Applied Behavioral Scientists bridge our research with the next generation of Toyota products and strategy.

We are looking for an Applied Behavioral Science intern with methodological expertise in experimental design and data analysis and topical expertise in at least one of the following areas: Decision-making, behavior change, or intervention development and testing, especially in the context of carbon neutrality.

We will match the interns with mentors based on their experience. Over the course of the project, in addition to Carbon Neutrality group meetings, you will also participate in all Human-Centered AI Division meetings. You will be exposed to how interdisciplinary industrial research works and learn from our team and the other interns in our division. Furthermore, you will engage in strategy discussions about how your internship research project connects to business impact at Toyota.

Our goal is that you end the summer with work that informs internal strategy and may be publishable in an academic journal or conference.

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