Information on Computer Science Research-Related Internships 2016

Peter Brass (Professor of CS at CCNY)

Below I collected some Information on various internship programs that I believe to be interesting and relevant for our ambitious students, for the summer 2016. This is a personal selection, not a complete list; and this information is offered as is, without guarantees. You should search and visit relevant websites to find updated information and more opportunities.

• The IBM Research International Internship program. This is a program which I believe to be especially interesting for research-minded students, first because IBM Research does indeed some remarkable things, and second because this is a special program for CCNY, so the chances of getting it are for our top students fairly high. The program is open to students of all levels, from undergraduate to PhD, including international students. The program locations are IBM Research Labs in India ( Projects in India), China ( Projects in China), and Switzerland ( Projects in Switzerland); the projects in china are for visa reasons only open to chinese students. Applicants need to be pre-approved by their college (I am the faculty contact person), the process is described here. Please fill the internal application form and send it to me (peter@cs.ccny.cuny.edu), together with your resume and transcript by January 21, 2016. After preapproval, you get instructions and a link to upload your application with IBM. You will need at least one recommendation letter, which should be sent directly to IBM. All IBM-selected students will have an orientation in IBM-Research headquarter, and are expected to write a report after completion of their summer research projects.

• The NSF REU programs. Research Experience for Undergraduates is a large program, by which undergraduate students participate with a paid internship for one summer with a research project at some research group, usually not at their own university. The list of NSF-approved REU sites can be found here . Of the computer science REU projects, the following looked to me especially interesting
  • Robotics Institute Summer Scholars at Carnegie-Mellon University
  • Machine Learning REU at Florida International University
  • Big Data REU at Illinois Institute of Technology
  • Robots in the Real World REU at Oregon State University
  • DIMACS REU at Rutgers University
  • Simulation and Complex Systems REU at the Santa Fe Institute
  • Autonomous Vehicle REU at the University of Arizona
  • Machine Learning REU at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
  • Combinatorics and Algorithms REU at the University of Maryland.
  Of course this is just a personal selection of more than 60 REU sites for CS.

• The Google Summer of Code. This is aimed more at graduate and PhD students; selected participants are paid by Google to work for one summer on some open-source project approved by Google. This is very educational for programming on a real large open-source project that will be actually used by people, and will therefore have fairly high standards on acceptable code. Information is here.

• Here are some industry research labs with internship programs
  • Microsoft Research
  • IBM Research
  • Yahoo Labs
  • Facebook Research
  • AT&T Labs
  • Alcatel-Lucent
  • NEC Labs

• Here are some internship programs in national labs
  • NIST Information Technology Lab The NIST SURF program needs institutional submission; contact Dr. Gosser about this.
  • Sandia Labs Center for Computing Research

Peter Brass (peter@cs.ccny.cuny.edu or phjmbrass@gmail.com)