Great Minds initiative: IBM Research Labs
The Great Minds initiative is a competition for 3 to 6-month internships at one of the IBM Research Labs in Zurich, Nairobi, or Johannesburg for students from central and eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. It provides students with the unique opportunity to work alongside world-class scientists in the leading industrial IT research organization.
Available Positions
Topics at the Africa Lab in Johannesburg
Project Ref. Code: SA‑2021‑01
Neurosymbolic AI (foundational AI towards natural language understanding)
Deadline: Open untill filled
Project Ref. Code: SA‑2021‑02
Computational Genomics for TB Drug Resistance Profiling using AI
Deadline: Open untill filled
Project Ref. Code: SA‑2021‑03
Quantum Computing
Deadline: Open untill filled
Project Ref. Code: SA‑2021‑04
Applications of geospatial data analytics for climate risk assessment
Deadline: Open untill filled
Project Ref. Code: SA‑2021‑05
Semantic Analysis of Text in African Languages
Deadline: Open untill filled
Project Ref. Code: SA‑2021‑06
Clinical Natural Language Processing for Digital Pathology
Deadline: Open untill filled
Topics at the Africa Lab in Nairobi
Project Ref. Code: K‑2021‑01
Detecting Imbalanced Randomizations in RCT Studies
Deadline: Open untill filled
Project Ref. Code: K‑2021‑02
Bayesian Network Structure Learning Through Prediction Bias
Deadline: Open untill filled
Project Ref. Code: K‑2021‑03
Dice-Scanner: Group-level, Black-box Model Explainability
Deadline: Open untill filled
Project Ref. Code: K‑2021‑04
Subset Boosting Machines
Deadline: Open untill filled
Project Ref. Code: K‑2021‑05
Automatically Identifying Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in RECOVERY: The World ’s Largest COVID19 Randomized Control Trial
Deadline: Open untill filled
Project Ref. Code: K‑2021‑06
Deep Scanner: Masking Nodes for Higher Accuracy
Deadline: Open untill filled
Project Ref. Code: K‑2021‑07
Deep Scanner: Mahalanobis Noise Induced Activation Changes (MANIAC)
Deadline: Open untill filled
Project Ref. Code: K‑2021‑08
TTX: Learning from Models Putting Theory into Practice
Deadline: Open untill filled
Project Ref. Code: K‑2021‑09
Novelty Sampling from GANs in settings with large and small datasets
Deadline: Open untill filled
Project Ref. Code: K‑2021‑10
Cross-domain learning to address low-quality, small and multi-source challenges in tabular data
Deadline: Open untill filled
Project Ref. Code: K‑2021‑11
Unsupervised learning of new class samples without/limited forgetting of previous classes
Deadline: Open untill filled
Project Ref. Code: K‑2021‑12
Automatic bias evaluation in academic and/or legal documents
Deadline: Open untill filled
Project Ref. Code: K‑2021‑13
Economics of climate change
Deadline: Open untill filled
Project Ref. Code: K‑2021‑14
Supply chain resilience
Deadline: Open untill filled
Project Ref. Code: K‑2021‑15
Lifecycle-aware supply chains
Deadline: Open untill filled
Project Ref. Code: K‑2021‑16
Emission implications of traditional vs. e-commerce
Deadline: Open untill filled
Topics at the Europe Lab in Zurich
Automated Maintenance of a Security Vulnerability DatabaseRef. Code: Z-2021-02
Deadline: Open untill filled
Project Ref. Code: Z-2021-03
Automating AI for Advanced Data-Driven Material Manufacturing
Deadline: Open untill filled
Project Ref. Code: Z-2021-04
ML-enhanced search of transition states
Deadline: Open untill filled
Project Ref. Code: Z-2021-05
Advanced Data-Driven Material Manufacturing
Deadline: Open untill filled
Project Ref. Code: Z-2021-06
Extracting chemical information from the chemical literature
Deadline: Open untill filled
Project Ref. Code: Z-2021-07
AI for Civil Engineering Applications
Deadline: Open untill filled
Project Ref. Code: Z-2021-08
Development of Interpretable AI Methods for Computational Biology
Deadline: Open untill filled
Project Ref. Code: Z-2021-09
Record Linkage
Deadline: Open untill filled
Project Ref. Code: Z-2021-10
Explainability of Graph Convolutional Networks and Temporal Evolution of Graph Convolutional Network Models
Deadline: Open untill filled
Project Ref. Code: Z-2021-11
Toward ML-based database tuning and optimization
Deadline: Open untill filled
Project Ref. Code: Z-2021-12
Elastic Ephemeral Storage Services for Serverless Computing
Deadline: Open untill filled
Project Ref. Code: Z-2021-13
Artificial General Intelligence: Lifelong Learning Challenge
Deadline: Open untill filled
Project Ref. Code: Z-2021-14
Blockchain Core and Application Development
Deadline: Open untill filled
Project Ref. Code: Z-2021-15
Deep learning incorporating biologically-inspired neural dynamics
Deadline: Open untill filled
How to Apply
Please fill in the for below and submit your CV and letter of recommendation (in English, preferrably PDF format) by 15 December 2020..
The winners will start their internships in 2021 on a mutually agreed date. Please don’t forget to select possible dates and duration (3–6 months) for your internship.
| Quick Overview————- | |
| Organization | IBM Research, Zurich |
| Fellowship Level | 3 to 6-month internships |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Subject areas | Physics, Electronics and Communication Engineering |
| Fellowship amount | — |
| Eligibility | Bachelors, Masters |
| Deadline | 15 December 2020. |
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