[Corpora-List] PwC Center for Advanced Research internships -- spring and summer 2010

Sat Oct 24 01:20:32 UTC 2009

The Center for Advanced Research at PricewaterhouseCoopers is  recruiting 
both spring and summer interns this year. We have up to six positions for 
each semester,  in the following areas: 

User modeling & adaptive systems specialist: Duties include evaluating 
existing methods and developing new approaches for task detection, plan 
recognition and other user modeling technologies. The candidate must be 
currently enrolled in computer science or similar graduate program and 
should have prior experience in user modeling or machine learning. 
Knowledge of reinforcement learning or Bayesian approaches is especially 
desirable.
User interface specialist: Duties include assisting with usability studies 
and design and implementation of human-computer interfaces. 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. Some programming will be required and familiarity with C# 
or .NET is preferred.
Complex event analysis specialist: Duties include evaluating existing 
methods and developing new approaches for complex event processing, 
identifying meaningful events within a large pool of events, event pattern 
recognition and evolution of event patterns 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 text 
mining. Programming will be required and working knowledge of 
programming/scripting languages such as Java, Perl, Python and  Matlab, as 
well as sufficient familiarity with database systems are highly desirable.
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, Perl and Python, text 
processing tools such as Lucene and Nutch as well as sufficient 
familiarity with database systems are highly desirable.
Time-series data analyst: Duties include analyzing financial and 
operational time-series data to identify patterns and complex events that 
may indicate opportunities for improving a company's internal processes. 
The candidate must be currently enrolled in a computer science, 
statistics, or similar graduate program and have prior experience 
developing algorithms for time-series and transactional data. Programming 
will be required and familiarity with SQL and Matlab/R is preferred. 
Previous experience analyzing business data is not necessary but 
considered a plus.
Healthcare data mining specialist: Duties include developing and 
evaluating advanced algorithms for classification, anomaly detection, and 
exploratory data analysis to detect fraud, waste, and abuse in healthcare 
data. The candidate must be currently enrolled in a computer science, 
statistics, or similar graduate program and should have prior experience 
dealing with large and complex data analysis problems. Programming will be 
required and familiarity with SQL, Matlab, and/or R is preferred.

In addition to our summer positions, we have internship opportunities 
available throughout the year. If you are an exceptional candidate with 
experience in one of the above areas, please apply and note your desired 
internship period.

Each intern will select a task, 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. 
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.

Application Process

To apply for an internship position, complete your PwC Profile at 
www.pwc.com/getstarted and attach your resume as either a Word or PDF 
document.  Once completed, please send an email to 
centerforadvancedresearchjobs at us.pwc.com with "CAR- 'your area of 
interest' and 'desired period'" as the subject.  Do not attach your resume 
to the email.

If you are selected for an interview, you will be contacted by a PwC 
representative to arrange an interview date and time.  All positions are 
in San Jose, CA.  Compensation is commensurate with experience. 
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP is an equal opportunity employer.

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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