A project is a semester-long commitment to a small team building one thing. You meet weekly, and you're expected to finish. Past teams have filed patents, won national competitions, and deployed products with real users.
Each project runs as a focused team with weekly syncs and 3-4 major milestones, typically over a few semesters. They're time intensive, and they expose members to a wide range of skills and technologies.
Recruiting Status
Topic
Fall 2026 – Spring 2027 · 4-6 hrs/week
A computer vision pipeline that turns raw roundnet (Spikeball) match footage into condensed highlight reels and live stats, automatically.
Project Manager
Henry Cheung
Fall 2026 – Spring 2027 · 4-6 hrs/week
Bringing WALL-E to life with Embedded Systems at Purdue, with NLP capabilities, autonomous navigation, and learned object search.
Project Manager
Shrey Sharma
Running since Fall 2026 · 5-7 hrs/week
Improving local LLM performance by splitting speculative decoding across CPU, GPU, and NPU resources.
Project Manager
Mofiyinfoluwa Orekoya
Running since Spring 2026 · 5-7 hrs/week
Developing sim-to-real pipeline for autonomously exploring and mapping unknown 3D environments with a drone.
Project Manager
Nathan Miller
Running since Spring 2022 · 3-4 hrs/week
Team-based entry point to applied ML: work through Kaggle competitions together, then graduate to an original project.
Project Manager
Arnav Mandal
6 editions since Fall 2021 · ~10 hrs/week
Year-long industry competition solving a real TE Connectivity manufacturing problem, with scholarships and patents on the line.
Project Manager
Sanchay Devnath
Advisor · Shu Wang
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Applications are open now for this semester. Projects are competitive and require demonstrated ML experience or a strong technical background. A project manager reviews your application and selects you if they believe you're a good fit, and may follow up with additional questions before confirming.
Covers your background, resume, and an ML assessment (or equivalent for non-ML roles).
Indicate your interest in specific projects. Released once new projects for the semester have been announced.
Both phases must be completed to be considered for a project.
Have an innovative idea? PM applications open before project recruitment. You'll work with our Director of Projects to scope, recruit, and execute. We expect excellence from project managers in both leadership and technical skills.
Join the Accelerator Program and build the skills you need to succeed in our projects. We also recommend Dive into Deep Learning to build a solid foundation in machine learning.