IBM Job VAcancy : Leading to Africa – Research Summer Internship in Kenya

IBM Job VAcancy : Leading to Africa – Research Summer Internship in Kenya
February 8, 2015 Job Description


Job description
Are you looking for an adventure? Come work with us in Africa. Where else can you work on evolving cognitive solutions for a smarter planet in energy, water, agriculture, education, health care, mobility and financial inclusion during the week and then go on Safari on the weekend?We’re looking for PhD level graduate students with strong programming skills and experience in areas such as data mining, optimization, machine learning, computer vision and high performance analytics with strong programming skills. Our research focuses on furthering the state of art in these areas from a scientific point of view as well as applying them to solve the real-world problems encountered by IBM’s customers and the larger ecosystem. The challenges faced by schools, and small farm investors; banks, utilities, governments and donor agencies motivate our work. Undoubtedly, these challenges are complex and hard enough for the state of the art in industry tools, systems and platforms. Therefore, the projects you will work on will involve developing new approaches, techniques and tools to tackle the problem at hand by working with world-class scientists. It is expected that work in these areas will lead to high quality research. However, the ultimate goal is to solve the real-world problems faced by the local context in Africa, and to scale for replication around the world.
Required
Master’s Degree
At least 3 years experience in Research
English: Fluent
Preferred
At least 4 years experience in Research
Additional information

IBM Research – Africa is the 12th lab in IBM’s world-class network of research laboratories. It was established in 2012 with the goal of advancing innovations that matter to the African continent. The IBM Research – Africa lab is located in Nairobi, Kenya in the campus of Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA). This lab will have local and international scientists and engineers working on a rich portfolio of projects including in areas of Smarter Planet solutions and infrastructures, Next-generation Public Sector solutions and Human Capacity Development. The lab will actively collaborate


IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

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