Read about Luka's (PhD Physics Student at Cambridge) Internship
Experience
APRIL 2, 2020
Hi my name is Luka I am a PhD student in Cambridge doing Physics
and I have just finished a 10 week internship for DreamsAI in Hong
Kong. It was a great opportunity for me to apply my knowledge and
learn more about Machine Learning. One of the things I enjoyed the
most about my time with Dreams AI was the culture at work, despite
the fact that I was an intern, my voice was heard and I had plenty
of opportunities to contribute to a lot of different and very
interesting projects.
I worked on a system for scanning and processing receipts to
automatise workflow of accounting agencies. In this project, I had
an opportunity to work as a backend developer, learning about
setting up APIs, best programming practices, and collaborating
with frontend developers to make a demo webapp.
However, I spent most of my time working on a Speaker Verification
project that I started. The final goal was to be able to tell if
the two audio tapes of people speaking are coming from the same
speaker or not, to be used as a verification layer in certain
systems. There, I learned about audio processing and advanced
machine learning models. Finally, I used a combination of
convolutional and recurrent neural networks to recognise the
speaker's voice from audio tapes and find the level of similarity
to other voices. Now one of the new interns - Benjamin is
continuing this project and I am working on it as a Freelancer. It
is a great feeling to see a project that I started during my
internship being continued and I also really appreciate the trust
and opportunity that the company gave me to create something that
I thought might be interesting.
Another notable aspect of my internship that I really enjoyed was
the company’s atmosphere. The people that work there make for a
very interesting community and we had a lot of chances to hang
out, get to know each other better, relax and enjoy the city. We
used to go swimming, play basketball, go to hikes, restaurants,
bars… The company was always organizing something during weekends
and sometimes during week evenings as well. For example, my
birthday was during my internship and it was pretty close to
DreamsAI’s birthday as well, so everyone from the office went Cake
Making. It was a great experience where everyone got to make their
own cakes and customize them, we later used these cakes to
celebrate the two birthdays.
Overall, I really enjoyed my time at Dreams AI, and despite being
there during the Covid-19 outbreak, I had a great experience and
managed to have fun, learn a lot and contribute to the company.