Research Assistant

1 month ago


College Station, Texas, United States Penn State University Full time
Job Description and Position Requirements

Penn State University is seeking multiple part-time research interns to work on a project involving gradient-free test-time evasion attacks against a classifier trained for the MNIST domain.

Interns will be responsible for implementing a successful gradient-free test-time evasion attack in Matlab, attacking each test sample and misclassifying it to a randomly chosen target class. They will also be required to report the attack success rate and the average number of classifier queries needed to achieve a successful attack.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in computer science and engineering, with experience in Matlab and machine learning. They will also be able to work independently and as part of a team.

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