Fwd: Greetings from Kenya

[Artur Dubrawski]

FYI


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Subject: 	Greetings from Kenya
Date: 	Sat, 28 Mar 2015 13:28:29 +0300
From: 	Sky Speakman <skylerspeakman at gmail.com>
To: 	Artur Dubrawski <awd at cs.cmu.edu>



Hi Artur, hope all is well back in Pittsburgh.

I'm sharing this announcement from IBM Research - Africa with some of my 
old CMU connections.  Any Autonlab affiliated students interested in 
something like this?  Feel free to post/pass on.

Thanks

skyler

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Research Internship Summer Job at IBM Research Africa
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Are you looking for 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, healthcare, mobility and 
financial inclusion during the week and then go on Safari on the weekend?

We’re looking for graduate students with strong programming skills and 
experience in areas such as data mining, optimization, machine learning, 
computer vision and deep analytics. 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 telcos, 
schools, small farm investors, banks, utilities, governments and donor 
agencies motivate our work. Undoubtedly, challenges are complex and hard 
enough for the state of the art in industry tools, systems and 
platforms. Therefore, the projects you will be working 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 these 
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 
scale for replication around the world.

IBM’s Smarter Planet journey began more than four years ago and took on 
added significance when the IBM Research – Africa Lab was announced in 
Nairobi, Kenya. It is the 12th IBM Research lab and our first lab 
dedicated to a whole continent.  The lab is located on the campus of the 
Catholic University in the Karen-Langata area in Nairobi.  Our goal is 
to maintain IBM's world-class research culture while evolving 
commercially viable innovations that impact people’s lives.

We are recruiting. Join us for summer 2015.  To begin the process, 
please send your cover letter and CV via email to Dr. Kala Fleming 
(kalaflem at ke.ibm.com <mailto:kalaflem at ke.ibm.com>) and Dr. Komminist 
Weldemariam (k.weldemariam at ke.ibm.com <mailto:k.weldemariam at ke.ibm.com>).
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