Scientific Programmer/Developer (Student) for GUI and deployment development for AI pipeline in Zürich

20%-30%, Zurich, temporary

The at the Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich is looking for a student part-time programmer for scientific software.

The Neurotechnology group developed a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence pipeline for the analysis of animal behavior in complex environments, which consists of multiple deep neural networks. [“SIPEC”, see 1]. We’ve showcased our approach can segment and identify monkeys in their home-cage environment as well as classify their behavior and track their pose. Our SIPEC software allows the continuous analysis of large amounts of behavioral data and opens new avenues to study social structures and dynamics. We are now looking to streamline our software such that its use becomes very user friendly for practitioners from various backgrounds. This involves to streamline prototypical code, adding an easy GUI for data annotation and result visualization as well as storage.

[1] Marks, M., Qiuhan, J., Sturman, O., von Ziegler, L., Kollmorgen, S., von der Behrens, W., ... & Yanik, M. F. (2020). SIPEC: the deep-learning Swiss knife for behavioral data analysis. bioRxiv.

• Streamline prototypical SIPEC code
• Write a user-friendly GUI
• Implement Data Annotation module
• Implement Result visualization module
• Implement persistent storage of data

• Student enrolled, ideally at ETH or UZH
• Extensive python programming experience
• Experience with GUI development, i.e. PyQT, Tkinter, etc.
• Experience with software packaging and deployment, i.e. docker, etc.
• basic knowledge of deep learning with tensorflow and keras

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