AI For All Research Fellowship

We invite applications from recently graduated as well as to-be-soon graduating undergraduate (BTech/BE/BS) and Master’s students (MTech/ME/MS) for our AI for All Research Fellowship Program. Candidates who are passionate about building solutions for real-world problems of societal importance using the latest advances in AI are strongly encouraged to apply.

AI for All Research Fellowship Program

Wadhwani AI is at the forefront of building AI-based solutions for some of the most important problems of societal significance in several areas including agriculture, infrastructure, education, skilling, health care, and manufacturing. Our AI for All Research Fellowship Program provides a platform for the bright and socially committed engineering students to address societal challenges in under-resourced and underserved communities in India and worldwide with the power of AI. Our Research Fellows get unprecedented opportunities to understand societal challenges, develop highly innovative AI-based solutions leveraging the latest advances in AI, and roll out pilots with an eye on scale. Selected candidates spend 1 to 2 years with us. The program is highly competitive and is best suited for bright young minds who want to prepare themselves for careers in applied AI research and social entrepreneurship.

Responsibilities:

Research Fellows are first class members of our Science & Engineering team. They are expected to contribute to the projects at all stages - from understanding the uses cases to ideating to building solutions to rolling out pilots as part of a cross-functional team that believes in doing what it takes to have high impact in the domains we work in.

Responsibilities include curating and transforming data, replicating results from research projects and adapting them to real world problems, debugging and optimizing algorithms with the ultimate goal of building innovative and effective AI-based solutions that get deployed in the field. In doing so, Research Fellows will work closely with customers, partners, and cross-functional teams spanning product and program management, researchers and designers.

Eligibility:

Students who have graduated recently or will be graduating by April 2019 in the disciplines of Computer Science, Electronics & Communication, Electrical Engineering or related areas with an outstanding academic record and demonstrated skills in any areas of AI including Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Speech Processing and Computer Vision are eligible to apply for the program. Candidates are expected to have excellent coding skills, a sound understanding of basic software engineering and good exposure to linear algebra, statistics and probability. Both undergraduate (BTech/BE/BS) and graduate (MTech/ME/MS) students can apply.

Selection Process:

Send your application with your CV with a short statement on why you aspire to work with us by email to careers@wadhwaniai.org. Subject line should be “Application: AI for All Research Fellowship Program”. If you meet our requirements, we will invite you to for technical test and face-to-face interviews.

Candidates will be selected based on their performance in test and interviews.