Summer Research Student | Internship | Aspiring Minds

Summer Research Student | Internship | Aspiring Minds

This summer, Aspiring Minds wants to give an opportunity to the best engineering minds (who have completed 3 years or more of engineering), in the country to participate in active research and development with us. Together we will learn how to translate a real world problem into a computer science problem and build a state-of-art product to solve it. Our product development includes one or more of the following computer science areas: machine learning (artificial intelligence), speech recognition, program analysis, computational linguistics and embedded systems. Check out some of our products here: http://www.aspiringminds.in/researchcell/newsletter/talent-prism-vol12.html .

Find out more about the kind of problems we love to work on at the Machine Learning Competition Website:  http://www.aspiringminds.in/mlCompetition/. If you want to do some real research to build some industry-deployable products, come and try an opportunity with Aspiring Minds. Apply now to become a 'Summer Research Student' at Aspiring Minds and work with a team mentored by alumni of MIT (USA) and IIT. Come join us to read the latest in research literature, improve it and implement it in our products.

About Aspiring Minds: http://www.aspiringminds.in/ .

What are we looking for: Strong computer science concepts with great programming skills and some exposure to research.

Location: Gurgaon, India

Stipend: 15K+ per month (minimum 15 K)

Kindly ask your students to apply here: http://www.aspiringminds.in/rndInternship.php

Not all students can apply to this. Only those meeting the eligibility criteria can apply. Eligibility criteria are given below. People who are shortlisted will be called for the recruitment process in the first week of May 2012.

Kindly circulate this email among students and encourage them to apply.

Please find detailed job description below.

Thanks

Aspiring Minds' Talent Acquisition Team

www.aspiringminds.in

www.myamcat.com

rnd_engineer@aspiringminds.in

Summer Research Student

The individual will work with the Research Team at Aspiring Minds and shall develop solutions to real-world problems using state-of-art machine learning techniques, computer science concepts and statistical assessments. To be able to produce the best in market products, we not only bring theoretical algorithms into the realm of practical application, but also hack them to suit our needs. As a part of this team, you will understand the kind of problems we are interested in, translate them into computer science problems, read papers to understand the state-of art developments in related areas in academia and industry and cross-apply multiple research findings to develop new products or enhance our current products. On a typical day, you might be spending your time reading a paper, brainstorming ideas with colleagues, coding a new algorithm (we enjoy this the most!), analyzing results or Thinking (with a capital T)!

Some computer science we routinely do: Statistical parameter estimation and inference,  Probability density estimation, Regression/Classification,  Program Analysis, Speech Analysis, Non-linear Modeling, etc.

What are we looking for: Strong computer science concepts with great programming skills and an exposure to machine learning.

Location: Gurgaon, India

Stipend: 15K+ per month (minimum 15 K)

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA:

Please apply only if you qualify all the three criteria

1. B.E./B.tech. in Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Information Technology/Electronics, Completed 3 years or more of engineering

2. Have an AMCAT score of E > 500, L > 500, Q > 500, CP > 550 OR Within top 20% in your engineering class OR JEE RANK < 10000 OR AIEEE RANK < 10000.

3.  Have something unique in your profile which others do not.

Candidates having any of the following credentials will be preferred:

a. a publication in an international conference/journal

b. a project/internship in Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence which is not just a class project

c. be among the top 5% of an international coding competition

Note: Minimum duration of internship is 9 weeks.

What does it mean to work at Aspiring Minds?

You may want to work with us, if the following excites you:

   * You want to be a part of a young, energetic and highly-qualified team.

   * Opportunity to make impact excites you.

   * You think you have ideas.

   * You like hard problems.

   * You want to do non-incremental tasks and have a passion to disrupt the market

Do not apply to us if you wish to have a *routine* work-life!

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About Aspiring Minds

The Concept

Aspiring Minds is a product based company that develop scientific assessment tools and prediction algorithms for the purpose of human capital evaluation. Aspiring Minds' products enable a match between applicants and jobs through a detailed assessment of their capabilities and skills. Our assessment product and proprietary predictive matching algorithms heavily use learning techniques combined with various computer science areas such as speech recognition, program analysis and linguistics. Our products are as varied as assessment of speech, personality, language skills to prediction of performance, attrition, promotion and career success.

More than 750,000 job applicants across India take our standardized test, AMCAT to make themselves and their skills visible to corporates. This makes AMCAT India's largest employability test. AMCAT helps the students get an interview opportunity and eventually a job matching his/her skill set. The corporates are able to identify and locate talent, which was hidden to them till now. Multiple statistical studies show that using AMCAT leads to better job-matching and higher productivity for our clients. A good job-matching algorithm helps making the labour (job) market more efficient and enables fair return to human capital. Aspiring Minds seeks to establish an efficient talent ecosystem in India.

A Brief about the Company

Aspiring Minds was started by alumni of IIT and MIT(USA) in 2007. Its advisory panel consists of Prof Tarun Khanna of Harvard Business School and Dr Una-May O'Reilly of MIT, USA. It works with corporates in multiple sectors ranging from IT, ITeS to hospitality, retail and microfinance. Some of its clients include HCL Technologies, Axis Bank, Accenture, Genpact, Accor Hotels, Sapient, Ericson, HP and many more. Its flagship test AMCAT has been taken by more than 750K applicants across more than 1100 institutions. It regularly publishes research reports on the employment ecosystem in India, which have been covered in leading print media like The Economist, Business Standard, Economic Times, etc. It was rated by Business Week as one of world's 25 most intriguing startups.