Maersk Digital Centre M.Tech Fellowships 2018 (brochure)
About Maersk
Maersk is the world’s largest container shipping and logistics company, known for reliable, flexible and eco-efficient services. Every day our people share their expertise with our customers around the globe to optimize their supply chains, maximize their distribution networks and most of all realize their business potential. The Maersk Digital team is committed to developing products by extracting insights from data by the application of domain expertise, and is specialized in the development of digital products using statistical modeling, machine learning and artificial intelligence approaches. The team is at the forefront of developing industry-leading solutions & analytical applications for the organization.
About the Fellowship
Maersk Digital Centre M.Tech Fellowships at CDS are aimed at attracting talented students of data-science who have a strong background in mathematics and programming into the areas of analytics and data assimilation. The fellowships will be awarded to two of the incoming (2018-2019) M.Tech. (Computational and Data Science) students.
Entitlements of Fellowship
- Enhanced Fellowship of INR 16,000 for 24 months
- A contingency grant of INR 1,10,000 for travel and equipment budget.
- Internship of 3 months at Maersk Digital Centre, Bangalore during the summer of 2019
- An opportunity to interact and work with Maersk Digital team in an environment that offers a unique opportunity to apply cutting-edge knowledge of mathematics, machine learning and artificial intelligence to create results and insights that are relevant in real-world business problems.
Eligibility and Selection Criterion
Open to all M.Tech Students of CDS starting at August 2018, who are wishing to pursue their Dissertation Projects in the area of
(i) Streamline Analytics of Distributed Networks with Prof. Yogesh Simmhan as the dissertation advisor.
(ii) Data Assimilation and Control Systems with Prof. Soumyendu Raha as the dissertation advisor.
The Selection Committee comprises of CDS Faculty members and Maersk Digital team members.
Contact: Chair, CDS (e-mail: chair.cds@iisc.ac.in)
For a list of other fellowships available to PhD and Masters students at CDS, see the fellowships page.
