The Xerox Research Centre India is seeking bright Masters and PhD students for research internships to participate in exciting research and technology development projects. The intern will work closely with very talented researchers to create and deliver innovative technical solutions, publish papers in top conferences and journals, contribute to the generation of patents, and pursue breakthrough research in a challenging and stimulating environment. We offer internships to students from the best universities around the world. Internships are usually given for a period ranging from 3 to 12 months.
Applicants will work on interesting projects in one or more of the following areas:
Big Data analysis and visualization based on data from real life applications
Mobile and Pervasive Computing that implement real life solutions with particular focus on developing innovative mobile tools and technologies catering to the needs of emerging markets
Sophisticated Data analytics of social media text, video, speech or images to gain business insights using techniques from machine learning, graph analysis, statistical and stochastic modeling, natural language processing and semantic web
Distributed Systems with particular emphasis on cloud computing, web/business process optimization and large scale software systems
Human Computation with emphasis on optimization, crowd computation, image processing, knowledge-based systems and user interfaces
Human Centred Design that interacts with computers to translate ethnographic insights into information architectures, conceptual prototypes and working solutions
The interns will participate in cutting edge research and will apply the highest level of technical competence, analytical and problem solving abilities in support of original and creative scientific projects of significant business impact.
The ideal candidate for the research intern position will:
Be enrolled in a PhD (or Master's with thesis) program in Computer Science, Applied Statistics, Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.
Have excellent programming skills in Java, C, scripting languages such as Perl, Python, Ruby, Scala, etc. and/or application development platforms like Android
Have excellent written and oral communication skills.