Type: Internship

Location: Bangalore

This internship role offers a unique opportunity to work at the Data Science Innovation Hub at ARTPARK and to contribute to disease management in the country. ARTPARK is working with the National One Health Mission at the central government, with the vector-borne disease control program at the state, and at the municipal level across multiple states and cities to support capacity building and inform policies for disease management. In this role, you will get an opportunity to work with leading disease modelling experts, engineers, and public health experts nationally and internationally in a highly motivated setting.

Responsibilities:

• Integrate and organise health and related data from multiple sources into a form usable by computational models

• Implement statistical approaches as well as contribute to the development of robust and scalable models for the goals identified in the project

• Consolidate findings and prepare reports to effectively communicate insights with engineers and public health officials

• Work closely with data and engineering teams to develop data pipelines, data visualisations and the integration of these visualisations into a dashboard

Requirements:

• Pursuing a bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related quantitative scientific discipline

• Basic knowledge of applied and computational mathematics, including familiarity with concepts such as differential equations and linear algebra, is desirable.

• Strong programming skills (e.g. Python, R)

• Prior experience in computational modelling and handling large datasets is desirable.

• Prior knowledge of statistical models, disease modelling is desirable but not mandatory.

  
  

ARTPARK @ IISc : Innovation factory for next-gen robotics & AI
ARTPARK is India's leading deep-tech venture builder and incubator focused on robotics, connected autonomous systems, and AI. Leveraging our unique facilities and ecosystems, we strive to provide meaningful support to very early-stage startups building deep-tech products based in research. We are a nonprofit organization created by Indian Institute of Science (IISc, Bengaluru) with support from the Department of Science & Technology (Government of India) and the Government of Karnataka.