Cutting-edge artificial intelligence for the future of sleep
Summer jobs for highly motivated students
Reykjavik University and Nox Medical are offering summer internship opportunities for 11 exceptional students to validate the performance of Nox BodySleep 2.0 AI model developed by Nox Medical. As a summer intern, you will work with leading scientists to analyse sleep studies and investigate how the artificial intelligence (AI) model performs for predefined patient groups. The project aims to generate scientific publications, define new data collection initiatives, and determine if the analysis should not be used for certain patient populations. The project is funded by Nýsköpunarsjóður Námsmanna (the student innovation fund) and the work is to be completed as a full time job during the summer of 2023.
More details on the project:
Reykjavik University (RU) and Nox Medical have been awarded a significant grant from Nýsköpunarsjóður Námsmanna to fund 11 summer internships, each for a duration of three months in the summer of 2023. The project is called validation of Nox BodySleep 2.0 artificial intelligence model for predefined patient groups and
aims to validate the performance of Nox BodySleep 2.0 AI algorithm developed by Nox Medical, specifically for predefined patient groups. The results of the validation will be used for scientific publications, to define new data collection initiatives, and to determine if the analysis should not be used for certain patient populations. For that purpose, we are looking for exceptional and highly motivated students to take on the task of being summer interns focusing on the validation of a new AI model that may revolutionize how we diagnose patients with sleep apnea.
Obstructive sleep apnea is a common sleep disorder where patients regularly stop breathing or have severely obstructed airways when they sleep. Nox Medical is a global leader in medical devices used to diagnose sleep disorders such as sleep apnea and scientists (such as Erna Sif Arnardóttir and Anna Sigríður Islind) at Reykjavík University lead the largest sleep research project funded by the European Union, called the Sleep Revolution. As a summer intern in this project you will be working alongside leading scientists in the field of sleep medicine and computer science, working towards validating the aforementioned AI that has the potential to revolutionize the field.
Nox Medical has worked on the development of respiratory inductance plethysmography (RIP) for the past 15 years. The result of that work is technology that can monitor the breathing movements of the chest and abdomen with unparalleled accuracy. In the past years Nox Medical has been granted several patents on the technology and continues to develop novel methods of deriving new information from the RIP signals. The last invention of Nox Medical is the BodySleep 2.0 which is an AI model that can predict wake, non-REM sleep, and REM sleep from the breathing movements. Additionally, the AI model can detect brief awakenings (arousals) from the signals, a feat that has not been seen until now. Traditionally, sleep stages and arousals are detected using the measurements of the electrical activity of the brain (electroencephalography EEG). The EEG measurements are difficult and expensive to set up and the requirement of measuring brain activity severely limits the availability of accurate diagnostic sleep studies to patients. The Nox BodySleep 2.0 will potentially reduce the complexity of sleep studies significantly and make them available to much larger patient populations. As previously stated, the work conducted within this particular Nýsköpunarsjóður Námsmanna project, will lead to scientific publications and because of that we seek students that have abilities and interest in research, are able to read and write scientific texts, have data analysis skills or have programming abilities.
Preliminary results indicate extraordinary performance of the Nox BodySleep 2.0 to improve the diagnosis of sleep apnea. However, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and in this project you will play an important role in providing the extraordinary evidence. Nýsköpunarsjóður Námsmanna has granted this collaborative effort between Reykjavik University and Nox Medical a large grant to form a team of 11 summer interns to work on the project during the summer of 2023. The interns will work independently in teams of 2-4 people under the supervision of scientists from Reykjavik University and Nox Medical. The results of the project will be several scientific publications showing the results of the project.
As the ideal candidate for the summer internship, you are:
- Current student (or graduating during the summer of 2023) at Reykjavík University, University of Iceland or an equivalent university working towards a bachelor's or a master's degree.
- Highly motivated, positive, eager to learn and capable of working both independently as well as in a group, and result-oriented.
- Can contribute to at least one of the following:
- Writing and reading a scientific text
- Data analysis skills or statistical abilities
- Python Programming
- Communicate scientific content using visualisations and graphics
- Study psychology, health sciences, medicine, engineering, computer science, mathematics, or similar.
- Highly interested in sleep, AI, digital health and technology in general, and you are keen to collaborate in a multidisciplinary team.
Duration:
Interns must be able to work for 3 months during the period of May-August, and we are seeking those interested in taking this on as a full-time commitment (not alongside another job).
Location:
Work will be on-site at Reykjavik University.
Salaries:
In accordance to the rules of Nýsköpunarsjóður Námsmanna, 340.000kr per month and exceptional experience in research.
- Reykjavík University - Full time
- Deadline: April 23, 2023
