Jobs
From: Cynthia Thompson
Date: 20 Jan 2009
Subject: San Jose, CA: Summer Internships at the Center for Advanced Research at PricewaterhouseCoopers
The Center for Advanced Research at PricewaterhouseCoopers has openings for six interns for the summer of 2009:
- Computational Linguistics specialist:
Duties include evaluating existing methods and developing new approaches for challenging problems in text classification and clustering, syntactic and semantic parsing, and text mining. The candidate must be currently enrolled in a computer science, computational linguistics, or similar graduate program and should have prior experience dealing with complex language processing problems. Programming will be required and familiarity with C# or .NET is preferred.
- Visualization specialist:
Duties include evaluating existing methods and developing new approaches for document visualization. The candidate must be currently enrolled in a computer science, MIS, or similar graduate program and should have prior experience dealing with prototype development or visualization. Some programming will be required and familiarity with C# or .NET is preferred
- Information Extraction specialist.
Duties include evaluating existing methods and developing new approaches for information extraction from unstructured/semi-structured text. The candidate must be currently enrolled in computer science or similar graduate program and should have prior experience dealing with information retrieval and complex text processing problems. Programming will be required and working knowledge of programming/scripting languages such as Java, C#, Perl, Python are highly desirable.
- Social Network Analysis specialist:
Duties include evaluating existing methods and developing new approaches for social network analysis, link discovery and evolution of networks over time. The candidate must be currently enrolled in computer science or similar graduate program and should have prior experience in machine learning, data mining and graph analysis. Programming will be required and working knowledge of programming languages such as Java, C# and Adobe Flex are highly desirable.
- Analytics specialist:
Duties include evaluating existing methods and developing new approaches for challenging problems in classification, anomaly detection, and exploratory data analysis. The candidate must be currently enrolled in a computer science, statistics, or similar graduate program and should have prior experience dealing with large and/or complex data analysis problems. Programming will be required and familiarity with SQL, Matlab, and R is preferred.
- User Experience/Interface specialist:
Duties will include assisting with usability studies, design and implementation of human-computer interfaces to facilitate analysis of large quantities of transactional data. The candidate must be currently enrolled in a computer science, MIS, or similar graduate program and should have prior experience in user interface design and implementation.
Each intern will select a task for the summer, the details of which will be based on the match of project needs to student backgrounds, but will be hands-on, involving substantial design, analysis and interaction with live data. Summer interns, like all members of the staff at the Center, are expected to be curious, eager to learn, passionate to contribute their ideas, accepting of criticism and suggestions, and willing to constructively confront difficult problems and situations. The candidate should also have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
_Contact_:
All positions are in San Jose, CA. Compensation is commensurate with experience. PricewaterhouseCoopers is an equal opportunity employer. To apply for an internship position, please send an e-mail with your area of interest and resume to CenterforAdvancedResearchJobs@us.pwc.com
About PricewaterhouseCoopers
The mission of PricewaterhouseCoopers' Center for Advanced Research, located in San Jose, California, is to create competitive advantage and industry leadership for the firm by applying advanced technology and thinking to important practice problems. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (www.pwc.com) provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services for public and private clients primarily in four areas: corporate accountability; risk management; structuring and mergers and acquisitions; and performance and process improvement. PricewaterhouseCoopers is a truly global organization with member firm offices in 766 cities in 150 countries. With a combined headcount of more than 146,000, PwC firms rank amongst the world's leading employers of highly skilled, professional people.
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