Hiring for good research interns at Nokia Research Center Beijing

I am looking for some good research interns to work in the Mobile Social Experiences Team at Nokia Research Center Beijing for at least 6 months. Please see the job description below.

Position: Research Intern
Mobile Social Experiences Team
Nokia Research Center, Beijing

Job Description:

The Mobile Social Experiences Team is a team within the NRC Growth Economies Lab in Nokia Research Center Beijing that is responsible for exploring new applications and experiences in mobile social networking that bridge the gap between physical and online environments. We want to examine how the mobile phone can be used for creating physical proximity social networks to capture and infer context for social activity and collaboration in real physical environments, and designing rich mobile social experiences to interact with others in an indoor environment as well as with other social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, RenRen or Sina Weibo. Our research focuses on understanding user behavior in the transition from online to offline environments and offline to online environments, improving people recommendations that are based on content and context, and creating new mobile applications and systems that integrate and improve social networking for our daily lives.

Desired Skills & Experience

Specific Responsibilities include:
 • Writing publications in conferences and journals
• Providing constructive criticism and ideas for research projects and research questions
• Writing high quality code for supporting our research framework and conducting data analysis
• Assisting in conducting research experiments and trials, as well as user studies
• Assisting other team members with research and development

The ideal candidate will have the following capabilities:
• BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent.
 • Currently a Masters or PhD student
• Excellent English communications skills both oral and written
• Passionate about research
• Ability to work well individually and in a team environment
• Ability to work with challenging problems and meet scheduled deadlines
• Experience in mining social media data from Twitter, Facebook, Sina Weibo or RenRen and performing data analytics using machine learning, statistics and social network analysis
• Experience in recommender systems, network models and network simulation
• Experience in algorithms, machine learning, human-computer interaction
• Research interests in ubiquitous computing, social computing, social networking, context awareness and mobile computing
• Solid programming abilities in one or more of the following languages: Java, Qt, C++, C#, Python, Perl.
• Experience in database and web technologies using HTML5, XML, PHP, SQL, Ruby, J2EE, Apache, JSON
• Experience in mobile application development on Windows Phone, Android and iPhone

About Nokia Research Center:

The mission of Nokia Research Center is to explore technology frontiers and solve scientific challenges today, in order for Nokia to deliver irresistible personal experiences tomorrow. It's a look at how people will be connecting not only with one another, but also with every place and thing in the world, as well as the novel ways in which they will use these connections to enhance their lives. The research being conducted at Nokia Research Center focuses on the experiences people will have in the future, the technology and interfaces they will use, and the infrastructure required to make it happen. The NRC Growth Economies (GEL) Lab provides technology disruptions and drives innovations for growth economy consumers. GEL has a presence in Beijing, Shenzhen, Bangalore and Nairobi. For more information, visit http://research.nokia.com.

If you possess any of these capabilities and are interested in this position, please submit your resume or CV to alvin.chin@nokia.com and in the subject of the e-mail please write “MSE Intern position”.

Looking for faculty positions or industry research jobs

I'm planning to finish my PhD by the end of this year, and will be on the market for a full-time job in academia or industry research for beginning to middle of next year 2008. If you know of any openings for next year in social computing and pervasive computing, let me know by e-mailing me at achin AT cs DOT toronto DOT edu. You can see my list of publications here.

CS PhD Production increasing

Well, this is good news. According to the ebiquity blog from UMBC, the number of CS PhDs that got their PhD degree increased 26% between 2005 and 2006. So, if this trend keeps up, then I should be in good shape since I plan to graduate and get my PhD degree next year in 2008! Let's also hope that the percentage of universities hiring CS PhDs for faculty also is on the increase, as well as the number of researcher positions in industry research as well, since I'll be in that boat next year.

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