Tesco Technology M.Tech. Fellowship 2017 (brochure)
About TESCO:
As a leading retailer, with 460,000 colleagues, we serve millions of customers every week, in our 6800+ stores and online.
Tesco Bengaluru Private Limited (“Tesco Bengaluru”) established in 2004 is engaged in the business of providing information technology and information technology enabled services its group entities across the world. The Tesco’s technology team in Tesco Bengaluru operates the only technology and retail operations centre for Tesco group worldwide – we make the Tesco experience better for millions of out customers and simpler for colleagues around the world.
About Tesco Technology: Tesco’s technology team drives change and delivers value by building great products for out customers and colleagues everyday. Our teams in Farringdon, London, and Bengaluru, India develop some of the most exciting retail technology in the world.
Our innovative and highly-skilled product and engineering teams build, develop and deploy quality software aimed at improving time to market and staying relevant to customer needs. We are passionate about security, open source, cloud, analytics, and architecture as we deliver quality, and best-in-class retail solutions.
About the Fellowship:
Tesco Technology M.Tech. Fellowship is instituted at IISc and aimed at attracting highly talented students in the area of data science.
Given to one of the incoming (2017-2018) M.Tech. (Computational and Data Science) students
Entitlements of the Fellowship:
- Enhanced fellowship of Rs. 16,000 per month for 24 months
- Travel cum contingency amount of Rs. 1,10,000 for international/national travel and other expenses to support research including buying a laptop
- Internship of three months during the summer of 2018
- Interact, learn, and work with Tesco Bengaluru teams on real business/technology problems
Eligibility & Selection:
All M.Tech. (Computational and Data Science) students starting in August 2017 and wish to pursue their dissertation project in the area of graph theory and computer vision with Anirban Chakraborty being the dissertation advisor.
The selection committee will consist of CDS department faculty members as well as Tesco Bengaluru representatives.
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.
