Summer internship opportunity at CTED, NYU Abu Dhabi ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lakshminarayanan Subramanian <lakshmi@cs.nyu.edu> Date: Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:55 AM Subject: Fwd: CTED Summer Internships at NYU Abu Dhabi To: Fahad Pervaiz <fahadp@gmail.com> Hi all, We have a few summer internship positions that may be available at our Center for Technology and Economic Development (CTED) ( http://nyuad.nyu.edu/cted/) at NYU. CTED is based out of NYU Abu Dhabi and we work actively in multiple countries including UAE, Ghana, Ethiopia, India and Pakistan. If you would like to work on an exciting ICTD project with us over summer, this could be an interesting opportunity. Attached is a brief job description. cheers Lakshmi CTED Summer Internship Job description: The Center for Technology and Economic Development (CTED) is looking for graduate student interns for the summer of 2013. We are specifically looking for students with a mix of good programming skills and strong interest in field works. The range of possible project areas are broad and include: - Mobile applications and wireless systems - ICTD systems for specific application areas including agriculture, health and education - Off-grid energy solutions (esp. energy monitoring/maintenance systems) - Large-scale data analysis, mining, and interactive visualization Requirements: - Currently enrolled in a Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Economics program - Facility in C++, Python, Java and/or analysis tools like Matlab Depending on your summer schedule, the internship will run from 12-14 weeks. Only students who are eligible to intern in the UAE should apply. Please send your CV to lakshmi@cs.nyu.edu The Center for Technology and Economic Development (CTED) is a multidisciplinary research center at NYU Abu Dhabi (UAE). Our mission is to develop tools that significantly impact economic development in emerging regions. Among other things, our goal is to bring power to rural communities off the grid, give remote villages access to health services and to provide farmers with market information to improve food security in rural areas. CTED draws from a broad multidisciplinary expertise available at NYU and NYU Polytechnic Institute in economics and economic development, computer science, foreign aid policy, management, microfinance, global health, politics, electrical engineering, materials science and engineering. -- "Have a dream, pursue it!" -- Anonymous