UROP Categories
Mission UROP appointments
- These UROPS will be affiliated with Mission projects and work with a PI on specific Mission.
- The Missions are focused on different areas of research:
- Developmental Intelligence, led by Josh Tenenbaum (quest-di-urops@mit.edu).
- Embodied Intelligence, led by Nancy Kanwisher and Leslie Kaelbling (ngk@mit.edu, lpk@mit.edu).
- Language, led by Ev Federenko (evelina9@mit.edu) and Jacob Andreas (jdandreas@gmail.com).
- More information on these Missions is available in the research section of the website, and each Mission includes multiple PIs. Please contact the Mission leads for information about specific UROP positions in one of the labs that is part of each Mission.
Engineering Team UROP appointments
- These UROPS will also be affiliated with Mission projects
- These UROPs will work with a member of the Engineering Team on a specific Mission.
- Please look at the Engineering Team UROP appointments in the MIT UROP listings here.
Instructions to submit proposals
After discussion with either the PI mentor (for Mission UROP appointments) or with the engineer mentor (for Engineering Team UROP appointments), students should submit their proposals via the application portal at the UROP website. Students should then select Supervisor/Sponsored Research Funding (not Direct Funding as these will be rejected and returned during the initial review). The DLC is the Quest for Intelligence and the cost object will be 1111111.
