IBM Research – India actively seeks collaborations and relationships with Indian Universities. IBM Research – India's goal is to develop long-term, mutually beneficial collaborative relationships with the faculty and students of the Indian academia by fostering advanced research, promoting university-industry exchanges, providing infrastructure and technology support, and cultivating tomorrow's world-class researchers.
Our UR efforts center on encouraging well-defined, researcher-to-researcher collaborative relationships between individual faculty members as well as academic research groups and IBM researchers. We offer numerous resources to academia under the umbrella of such collaborations: faculty research awards, equipment grants, sabbatical opportunities, conference sponsorships, student internships, student project training, PhD fellowships etc. Most of our University Relations programs require an active internal IBM Research collaborator who also acts as sponsor/nominator for IBM funding.
Our university collaborations are open to faculty of the IITs, IISc, TIFR, IIIT-H and a few other select Indian and Foreign Universities.
The various programs that IBM Research – India currently operates are listed below. The specific institutions that are currently eligible for these programs are mentioned in the respective program descriptions. The best way to apply for any of these programs is through your IBM Research – India research collaborator, hence other information is not always provided below.
Collaborative Research Programs
- Open Collaborative Research (OCR)
All IP developed under the OCR program will be made available as open source software code or as openly published papers or as royalty-free patents. Some of recent OCR engagements are:- IBM and National Institute of Design (NID): signed the Open Collaborative Research agreement that will focus on ethnography and user research to identify the communication needs, preferences and purposes of different user communities from different regions in India. The project will also identify the preferred modalities of communication for various ethnic groups and is likely to feed inputs to the IIT Bombay OCR.
- IBM and IIT Bombay: signed an Open Collaborative Research in the area of multi-modal platform for the next billion population (less-literate and low-income users who can potentially use IT but who currently do not use) to derive an interface on mobile devices. Specifically, the collaboration aims to advance research in developing software components to build integrated solutions that combine pictorial, iconic, text and audio modalities of interaction and validate their usability with the end users.
- IBM and IIT Madras & IIT Kharagpur: signed an Open Collaborative Research Agreeement to develop systems for making power grids more efficient and resilient in a smart grid environment. The systems will, in part, analyze data to help grid operators predict operational needs. IBM will work with the two institutes to develop open system designs that can boost the potential of phasor measurement units (PMUs). IBM researchers and institute students expect to develop network architectures to reliably collect data from PMUs, as well as analytics tools that process the data for grid operators. IIT Kharagpur will develop the new power system applications and software systems for the project. IIT Madras will focus on the networking architecture to ensure the data collected from different locations makes it to a central location. The pair plans to develop a test bed to evaluate network architecture and open system designs for the smart grid.
Faculty Programs
- Faculty Visitor Programs
Please contact your IBM Research – India collaborator for details of these programs:- Faculty Sabbaticals
- Faculty Summer or Short Visits
Faculty Awards
IBM Research – India actively collaborates with academic faculty members across the globe (with an emphasis on India). The IBM Faculty Award is one mechanism to promote world-class research and collaboration. Some of the awards we have been able to secure in past are:- Prof. Soument Chakrabarti, IIT Bombay
- Prof. Matt Jones, Swansea University
- Prof. Krithi Ramamritham, IIT Bombay
- Prof. Alessandro Orso, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Prof. Raman Bhaskaran, IIT Bombay
- Prof. Manindra Agrawal, IIT Kanpur
- Prof. Komondoor Raghavan, IISc
- Prof. Ankush Mittal, IIT Roorkee
- Prof. Chiranjib Bhattacharya, IISc
- Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthy, IIT Madras
- IBM Research – India has also partnered with global universities in government funding programs, such as the European Union (EU) FP7, and Australian Research Council (ARC) programs
Summer Internship Program
The application deadline for the 2013 summer internship program has passed.
Summer Internship Program: We offer internships to students from the best universities in India and abroad. Interns start around mid May and spend about 10-12 weeks at our Lab. During the internship, the students have the opportunity to participate in the dynamic and innovative environment of the largest Industrial Research organization in the world and network with other top students from other universities in various fields. We offer internship positions in various research areas such as:
- High Performance Computing
- Information Management
- IT Service Management
- Next Generation Systems & Smarter Planet Solutions
- Programming Technologies and Software Engineering
- Services Science
- Human Language Technologies
- Business Analytics and Optimization
- Telecom Research
At a high level, our internships serve a dual purpose:
- Interns bring fresh ideas and perspectives to the lab and help us conduct world-class research, thus creating impact.
- IBM Research provides an environment where interns experience a world-class industrial research setting.
We measure the success of our internships in one of the following ways:
- Projects done at internships are targeted towards top conferences and journals. Most of our interns have been successful in the past in publishing their papers in top conferences.
- Projects completed during the internships become part of larger research projects at IBM.
- The projects that the students participate in are also of interest to the universities that they come from, and help increase collaborations with the universities.
Who can apply: We accept applications from Computer Science, Mathematical Sciences, Electrical Engineering, Management, and interdisciplinary topics (e.g.: Cyber-Physical Systems, and SSME (Services Science and Management Engineering)). Final year undergraduates, post-graduates and Ph.D students are eligible to apply for this program.
How to apply: Application details are normally available at your department or on the IBM Research-India website.
When to apply: The deadline is in early January each year, though we may selectively admit highly qualified interns at other times of the year. The last date for application is available at your department or on the IBM Research – India website.
For details other than those already provided here and with your department, contact: urirl@in.ibm.com
IBM Global Programs
In addition, IBM globally operates several programs that Indian faculty and students are eligible for:
- IBM Faculty Awards (Worldwide Competition)
- IBM Ph.D. Fellowships (Worldwide Competition)
IBM Equipment and Research Grants
Resources
Showcase of Prototype Technology from IBM Research
Open standards, open source and IBM resources for academia
