{"id":360,"date":"2022-11-04T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-life\/?p=360"},"modified":"2022-11-04T16:34:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T21:34:39","slug":"autodesk-research-internship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-life\/inside-autodesk\/autodesk-research-internship\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections of an Autodesk Research intern"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Vivian Liu<\/strong> is a third-year computer science PhD student and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at Columbia University. She spent this past summer as a human and computer interaction (HCI) intern with Autodesk Research<\/a>, which explores new ways for technology to be applied to emerging design and make challenges.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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While honing her skills as a science communicator, Vivian was able to participate in key research projects exploring new methods in generative design. Vivian\u2019s work encompasses the arts and computer science. We recently caught up with Vivian to learn more about her internship experience and her future career plans.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did you learn about the internship opportunity with Autodesk Research?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Autodesk Research usually has a presence at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST). During the virtual symposium in 2020, I connected with Autodesk team members through Discord, and the next year, I reached out to the team again and was able to meet with them via Zoom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What have been some of your key takeaways from this experience?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Soft skills are important! I was able to connect with a lot of people in the company \u2013 for example, just telling someone where the ice machine was and having a water cooler conversation led to me being able to present my work virtually to teams in London. Being curious and unafraid to reach out helped me work across teams within the AI Lab and figure out how to navigate my industry. I also got to contribute to papers beyond my own. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learning how I work was also valuable. I discovered ways to streamline meetings with my managers by sending small agendas and keeping visual documentation of my progress through slides. These tactics made me stronger at communicating my research outward and helped me establish professionalism with people outside of Autodesk Research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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