RESEARCH INTERNSHIP AT ASPIRING MINDS

Aspiring Minds is offering summer Research Intern with a 25K monthly stipend respectively and the period of summer internship is June 2016 - July 2016.

Research engineers form the backbone of Aspiring Minds and hence we are looking for only the best minds of the country to fill these positions.
The selection process would be as follows-

Step 1: A registration link would be shared with all eligible candidates. The candidates will have to enter the requested information and upload their resumes.

Registration link for Research Intern (1st, 2nd and 3rd year are eligible to apply) https://docs.google.com/a/aspiringminds.in/forms/d/15NFIObe7M0_fKwRJN2c8CrX71fJX4kP80sxFUxUhXBE/viewform

Step 2: A very thorough and comprehensive resume-shortlisting would be done personally by the senior-most members of our research team in which various parameters would be taken into consideration - from projects to internships to publications to performance in national/international competitions etc.

Step 3: The shortlisted candidates would then be provided user name passwords for an automated programming test. They can take this test as per their own choice of time and place. They will require a laptop with a web cam and an internet connection.

Step 4: Telephonic interviews.
Eligibility Criteria:

• Qualification - B.E./B.Tech
• Batch year - 2016 (permanent hire), 2017, 2018 2019 (interns)
• Specialization: CC, CS, IT
• 10th and 12th scores - 70% and above
• GPA - 6.5 and above
* There will be strong resume shortlisting beyond this.

Job Description:

We are always on the lookout for talented individuals whose mood lights up with data and code. If you thrive on interesting and hard problems, you may enjoy our group. Our research goes into actual products which impact the lives of millions of people!If you have worked in the industry in the area of data sciences and seen through one or more machine learning projects end-to-end – right from conceptualization, data collection to delivering the end-product, write to us. Remember, everyone who we hire has to code!

Research Intern

The individual will work as a part of the research group at Aspiring Minds in developing solutions to real-world problems using state of the art machine learning techniques, computer science concepts and statistical assessments. As a part of this team, you will understand the kind of problems we are interested in, translate them into computer science problems, understand the state of the art in related areas in academia and industry and cross-apply multiple research findings to develop new products or enhance our current products. Additionally, we are also interested in deriving insights from the million assessments we have already performed through our assessment 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 just plain thinking (with a capital T)!

What are we looking for: Strong computer science concepts with great programming skills. Exposure to machine learning is a plus. If you are applying for internship, do mention your projects/ coding experience on online judges/ coding-competitions etc.

Aspiring Minds’ research group (http://research.aspiringminds.in)

 Aspiring Minds is a global job skills credentialing leader set up with a vision to create a merit driven talent ecosystem. We enable efficient job skills matching by crafting credible and intelligent assessments. The flagship product AMCAT, is the world’s most widely-taken employability test helping over two million candidates find the ‘right’ jobs every year.We are a 500+ people strong organization today with operations in US, China, India, Middle East, Philippines and Sub-Saharan Africa.

The research group is a leader in developing cutting-edge assessments to grade open-response questions. Among others, the group has conceptualized and designed products to automatically evaluate spoken English and automaticallygrade programming assignments. These tools draw heavily on machine learning and other areas of computer science like language processing, crowd-sourcing and program analysis.The group takes pride in having their work peer reviewed at top-tier conferences like KDD, NIPS, ICML and ACL. The complete list of publications can be seen here – research.aspiringminds.com/publications.

The group engages with global academic and research leaders and has presented work at labs of Microsoft Research, Xerox Research, IBM Research, MIT, IISc and IITs. The group, in the role of a thought leader, organizes ASSESS, an annual workshop on data driven assessments (aspiringminds.com/assess/) which attracts psychologists and computer scientists to discuss the state of the art in machine learning driven assessment technologies. Researchers from the group also engage in various other ML-related activities like maintaining ML India (ml-india.org), organizing data science camps for kids (datasciencekids.org) and guest lecturing at graduate level courses at IITs. It also hosts leading researchers in various areas of computers and social sciences to present at their lab. (research.aspiringminds.com/visitors