Project Positions Avalable in Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Kharagpur

Applications are invited for the following assignment in a research project undertaken in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering of IIT Kharagpur.

Project Name Analytics of Group Dynamics of Mobile Users
Sponsoring Agency Xerox Corporation, USA
Positions Available Research Consultant Rs.20,000/-  to Rs.35,000/- per month (depending on qualifications and experience)
Eligibility BTech/MTech in Computer Science or related discipline with a bright academic background and a flair for research. Selected students may apply for PhD or MS program at IIT Kharagpur.

About the project
Xerox Corporation is sponsoring a research project at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur for research and technology development in the emerging area of mobile applications and services. Mobile phones are increasingly becoming a necessity than a luxury across all markets and the gap between mobile phones and computers is fast narrowing. At the same time, revenues per user are steadily dropping that drive the need for value added applications and services. Mobile users capture, consume and share information between each other in a lot of different
ways including voice, text, data and images, all of which are indicators of their habits and usage patterns.  Such data enables one to provide context, content, and process aware services to mobile phone users that are both valuable to the end user and are revenue generators for the service providers.

This research project explores mechanisms and challenges for providing targeted information and solutions to mobile phone users leveraging two key current trends, namely, predictive analysis of mobile phone user behavior and personalization based on usage patterns. The project would be conducted over a period of 3 years and is headed by Prof P P Chakrabarti  and  Prof. Sudeshna Sarkar from the Dept. of Computer Science.  Leading researchers from Xerox would be interacting closely with the researcher(s) during the course of the project.

Technical areas covered in this project include data mining, predictive analytics, social networking analysis, parallel and distributed computing, mobile computing and multi-agent systems.

The project involves work in data mining, predictive analytics, social networking analysis, parallel and distributed computing, mobile computing and multi-agent systems. The applicants must have interest in doing research on these topics, and must have strong programming and algorithm design skills. Exposure to data mining or distributed computing is desirable.

Interested persons may send a preliminary application containing biodata, statement of purpose, with full details of academic background that includes marks obtained at various levels starting from Class X to the following email address: shudeshna@gmail.com

Please contact Prof Partha Pratim Chakrabarti (ppchak@cse.iitkgp.ernet.in) or Prof Sudeshna Sarkar (shudeshna@gmail.com) for any queries.