Tesco Bengaluru M.Tech. Fellowship 2018 (brochure)
About Tesco Bengaluru
Tesco Bengaluru is the only technology and retail operations centre for Tesco worldwide – we make the Tesco experience better for millions of our customers and simpler for over 4,76,000 colleagues around the world.
Established in 2004, Tesco Bengaluru is pivotal to Tesco and enables global operations in the areas of technology, people operations, property, finance, commercial & business services.
Every little help makes a big difference – is the value we live by to ensure we serve our customers, colleagues and our communities a little better every day.
About the Fellowship:
Tesco Bengaluru M.Tech. Fellowship is instituted at IISc and is aimed at attracting highly talented students in the area of data science. The fellowship will be awarded to one 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 travel and other expenses to support research including buying a laptop
➢ Internship of three months during the summer of 2019
➢ Interact, learn, and work with Tesco Bengaluru teams on real business/technology problems
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 natural language processing with Prof. Partha Talukdar as the dissertation advisor.
The selection committee will comprise CDS department faculty members and representatives from Tesco Bengaluru.
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.
