Taget India M.Tech. Fellowships 2018 (brochure)
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About the Fellowship:
Target India M.Tech. Fellowships are instituted at IISc and is aimed at attracting highly talented students in the area of data/text mining (including natural language processing) and computer vision (including deep learning). The fellowships will be awarded to two of the incoming (2018-2019) M.Tech. (Computational and Data Science) students.
Entitlements of the Fellowship:
➢ Enhanced fellowship of INR 16,000 per month for 24 months
➢ Travel-cum-contingency amount of INR 1,10,000 for national travel and other expenses to support research including buying a laptop
➢ Internship of three months during the summer of 2019
➢ Interact and work with Target teams on real business problems
➢ Share and learn with larger talent pool at Target
Eligibility & selection:
Open to all M.Tech. (Computational and Data Science) students starting in August 2018 and wishing to pursue their dissertation project in the area of
- data/text mining and natural language processing with Prof. Partha Talukdar as the dissertation advisor.
- computer vision and deep learning with Prof. Anirban Chakraborty as the dissertation advisor.
The selection committee will comprise CDS department faculty members and representatives from Target Corporation India.
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.
