Xerox Research Internship Position -- Social Media Analytics

The Xerox Research Center Webster in New York has multiple internship opportunities in large-scale text mining, information retrieval and social interaction and graph analysis. Successful candidates will be expected to conduct research, design, develop, and deploy state-of-art, scalable text mining and social analytics for innovative applications in urban informatics, personalized communications, and other industry verticals (e.g. healthcare, transportation, financial services, etc.). Applicants will be expected to work with large-scale online social media data set and fuse them with enterprise data sources (such as sensory log data, transaction data and web click stream data, image/video data) to uncover and predict value-driven insights to support on-demand, real-time analytic services.

A (ongoing) Ph.D.  in computer science or related field is required. Knowledge of fundamentals of information retrieval, natural language processing, text mining, machine learning, conversation analysis is highly desired. Proficiency in publicly available data analytics toolkits (such as WEKA, MALLET, etc.) and experience in manipulating and analyzing large data sets using existing technologies such as Hadoop, high performance computing platform will be a big plus. The applicant should also have strong skills in explaining and interpreting the analytic models and outcomes in both research and application contexts.

-Role/Responsibilities

Invent, design and prototype novel next-generation technologies in the areas of big data and social media analytics, information retrieval, natural language processing, and text mining. Collaborate closely with other R&D scientists and engineers in a multi-disciplinary work environment. Work with existing “intrapreneurship� and business teams to develop and help commercialize highly adaptive and robust models.

-Requirements

1.            A (ongoing) Ph.D. in computer-science or related field, and with a strong record of scholarly publications.

2.            Experience in industrial research labs a big plus.

3.            Strong knowledge and skills in rapid prototype programming languages, such as Python, Java, and/or R.

4.            Candidates should possess the interest to work in multi-disciplinary environments, and should have the desire to see their ideas realized in practice.

5.            Strong analytical, written and verbal communication skills.

Interested candidates can send their resume to Sumit.Bhatia@xerox.com. Please put "Internship Application" in the subject line.