Host Organization:

Baidu

WEBSITE:

www.baidu.com

Brief organization profile:

Baidu is the biggest Chinese search engine in China. In December 2007 Baidu became the first Chinese company to be included in the NASDAQ-100 index.

"Baidu" whose literal meaning is hundreds of times was inspired by a poem written more than 800 years ago during the Song Dynasty. Baidu, represents persistent search for the ideal.

As a native speaker of the Chinese language and a talented engineer, Baidu focuses on what it knows best - Chinese language search. Applying avant-garde technology to the world's most ancient and complex language is as challenging as it is exciting. At least people here at Baidu think so.

Our mission is to provide the best way for people to find information. To do this we listen carefully to our users' needs and wants. Have we collected all the Chinese web pages they want to see? Are the pages current and up to date? Are the search results closely related to their queries? Did we return those search results instantly? To improve user experience, we constantly make improvements to our products and services. Our users definitely notice the many little things that we do differently to ensure a simple and reliable search experience every time.

In addition to serving individual users, we also serve as a media platform for online marketing customers. We not only provide our customers easy access to one of the largest online audiences in China but also targeted groups with defined interests as indicated by queries. Unlike traditional online advertising services which charge by flat fee, our marketing products and services are performance based. Our Pay for Performance model has taken the market by storm because it is cost effective and measurable.

We know that a lot of interesting things are going on in the Internet space, but we don't want to lose focus. China's Internet search industry is only a newly discovered territory. We see vast untapped grounds in our home base and we believe there are still plenty of prizes to be claimed by the best players.

City, Country:

Beijing, China

Work Hours:

(June 21 – September 10, 2010)

8 hours per working day, 5 working days per week

Dress code:

N/A

Position(s) Available:

BAI-10-01

Department: Business Analysis

Number of Position(s): 1

Work description: Conduct state of art internet traffic analysis or strategic business analysis in the involving China internet markets

Requirement: Strong analytical skills required; click stream analysis or data mining knowledge will be a plus.

Chinese language level needed: High levels of fluency needed in reading, writing, and speaking

Position(s) Available:

BAI-10-02

Department: Computational Advertising

Number of Position(s): 4

Work description: Computational advertising, as a new scientific discipline at the intersection of information retrieval, machine learning, and microeconomics, provides the foundations for the billion-dollar industry of online advertising. If you are passionate with computational advertising, come and join us! Our team is chartered to develop industry leading ad matching technologies for all Baidu’s ad products and services.

Chinese language level needed: Fluency in basic reading, writing, and speaking

Additional desired intern qualifications:

• Master or Ph.D. candidates in Computer Science or related field, but can be flexible with qualified undergraduates or non-CS students.
• Research experience in information retrieval, machine learning or a related field
• Experience with statistical techniques and data analysis methods
• Ability to present information clearly, both verbal and written
• Enjoy coding in a fast-paced environment where you can work collaboratively with different teams or independently
• Demonstrated interpersonal communication skills necessary to work effectively in a team environment

Position(s) Available:

BAI-10-03

Department: Distributed Storage and Computation System

Number of Position(s): 3

Work description: Design & Development of Distributed Storage and Computation System

Requirement:  

• Distributed System and Parallel computation related background
• Ph.D students, but can be flexible with qualified undergraduates and MS.
• can perform job with minimum Chinese language skills

Chinese language level needed: Not needed, can perform job with minimum language skills.

Position(s) Available:

BAI-10-04

Department: Japanese Search Engine

Number of Position(s): 2

Work description: Research on Relevancy of Japanese Search Engine

Requirement:

• Machine Learning/Data Mining related background
• Master or PH.D students, but can be flexible with qualified undergraduates.
• Knowledge about Japanese language will be a plus
• Fluency in reading, writing, and speaking Japanese will be a big plus!

Chinese language level needed: Not needed, can perform job with minimum language skills.

Position(s) Available:

BAI-10-05

Department: Natural Language Processing

Number of Position(s): 2

Work description: Research and Applications of Natural Language Processing in Search Engine

Requirement:

• Natural Language Processing (NLP) related background
• Master or Ph.D students, but can be flexible with qualified undergraduates.

Chinese language level needed: Not needed, can perform job with minimum language skills.

Position(s) Available:

BAI-10-06

Department: Platform Organization

Number of Position(s): 1

Work description: The intern will work with the KR (Keyword Recommends) research/design group in the Platform Org to develop new approaches to find more KWs that have high business value with different vertical industry,   user group and etc. Fine-tune and improvement on the existing mechanism is another part of the work.

Chinese language level needed: High levels of fluency needed in reading, writing, and speaking

Additional desired intern qualifications: Prefer a graduate student to major in Math or Computer Science with the experience in computer modeling or data mining, but can be flexible with qualified undergraduates and non-CS students. User interaction study would be a plus.

Position(s) Available:

BAI-10-07

Department: System Department

Number of Position(s): 1

Work description:

• Solving complex system issues across the stack including kernel, drivers, firmware, as well as user-space applications.
• Developing and modifying kernel components and applications on Linux OS, such as HW device drivers, file systems and networking.
• Optimizing applications for using multiple cores, memory and network efficiently.

Chinese language level needed: Not needed, can perform job with minimum language skills.

Additional desired intern qualifications:

• Proficient in C programming.
• Expertise in data structures, algorithms, and complexity analysis.
• Experience with coding/modifying Linux kernel.
• Excellent problem solving and trouble shooting skills.
• In-depth knowledge of Linux internals and kernel development experience, such as: memory management, file systems, TCP/IP stack.
• Good knowledge of packet forwarding and SMP architecture is highly desired.
• Familiarity with x86 architecture, ACPI, I/O protocols such as PCI-e, SATA, SCSI are preferred.

Position(s) Available:

BAI-10-08

Department: User Behavior Analysis

Number of Position(s): 2

Work description: Search Engine User Behavior Analysis related research.

Requirement:

• Machine Learning/Data Mining/Statistical Modeling related background
• Master or PH.D students, but open to qualified undergraduates.

Chinese language level needed: Not needed, can perform job with minimum language skills.

Position(s) Available:

BAI-10-09

Department: Website Information Extraction

Number of Position(s): 1

Work description: Website Information Extraction related research

Requirement:

• Computer Science related background, but open to qualified non-CS students.
• Experience on Web browser rendering or information extraction will be a plus

Chinese language level needed: Not needed, can perform job with minimum language skills.

Host Organization:

Lenovo Group Limited

WEBSITE:

http://www.lenovo.com

Brief organization profile:

Lenovo Group Limited is a multinational technology corporation that develops, manufactures and markets desktops and notebook personal computers. Lenovo is the fourth largest seller of personal computers in the world. The company is the largest seller of PCs in China, with a 28.6% share of the China market. Lenovo's principal operations are currently located in Morrisville, North Carolina in the United States, Beijing, China, and Singapore, with research centers in those locations. Lenovo acquired the former IBM PC Company Division, which marketed the ThinkPad line of notebook PCs, in 2005.

City, Country:

Beijing, China

Work Hours:

(June 21 – September 10, 2010)

8 hours/working day

Dress code:

Business Casual

Position(s) Available:

LENO-10-01

Department: Innovation Design Center- Mechanical Simulation Team

Number of Position(s): 1

Department Description: The Innovation Design Center’s core competitive ability results from an advanced multi-disciplinary cooperative innovation mode. This self-studying organization has a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary team, consisting of over 80 employees including some excellent designers from New Zealand, Germany, Singapore, Italy and U.S., sharing 10 disciplines in various fields and owning 14 innovative design labs. Its research area includes user research, product design, Human-factor & Usability testing, UE (User Experience)design, mechanical design, graphic design, GUI design, simultaneous manufacture, tooling engineering, material engineering and project management. It is in full charge of Lenovo consumer product’s UE & design strategy, whole-line consumer product’s design R&D and design promotion, including desktop, laptop, server, small handset product and peripherals.

• Mechanical simulation team
• Industry: reliability design and innovation
• Team size: 10 peoples
• Responsibility: Responsible for Lenovo products reliability design, such as desktop, laptop, server and other digital products.
• Work content:
• Identify simulation case with design team;
• Build simulation model;
• Execute all kinds of simulation analysis;
• Review simulation results with design team, and give suggestion;
• Correlate simulation results with test.

Work description:

• Major in Mechanics / Mechanical engineering or similar field;
• Familiar with products mechanical design and thermal design;
• Familiar with mechanical dynamics and FEM theory, knowledge in heat transferring and thermal-stress;
• Experience in ABAQUS or MSC Software / Hyper-mesh / Ansa / Proe
• FEM analysis of electronic products is preferred

Chinese language level needed: Not needed, can perform job with minimum language skills

Additional desired intern qualifications:

• Independency and clear logical thinking, self motivated and achievement oriented.
• Good team work with strong coordination and communication skills.

Position(s) Available:

LENO-10-02

Department: Software Team

Number of Position(s): 2

Department Description: Digital Life Lab is one of the labs of Lenovo Research. The focus of the lab is innovative consumer electronic products: analyzing industry trends in related areas and developing product or product prototypes. The efforts include both software and hardware, but focus more on software, and both Windows and Linux platforms are involved. The lab has good relationship and cooperation with business partners, among them are Microsoft and Intel.

Work description:

• The projects in Digital Life Lab focus on developing innovative consumer electronic products: at home or portable.
• The intern will join in our project to be a program manager role, or, a developer role.
• We expect the intern bring new thoughts and ideas to the team, and of course, be able to share them well.
• We encourage he/she make friends in the team and in China, and enjoy living in another culture and exchanging experiences.

Chinese language level needed: Not needed, can perform job with minimum language skills

Additional desired intern qualifications:

• Ability to derive creative and innovative solutions by thinking "outside the box".
• Good communication skills and team work.
• Solid computer science background and good problem solving skills. Smart.
• Good coding capability is a great plus.

Position(s) Available:

LENO-10-03

Department: User Research Center

Number of Position(s): 1 - Graduate

Work description: Looking for an intern with Computer Science, Human Computer interaction, Experimental Psychology or Electrical Engineering background to participate in HCI related research projects. Focus area may include, but not limited to, human input device, sensor based innovation, augmented reality and etc. Intern needs to have creative thinking. SW or HW implementation capability is a plus.

Chinese language level needed: Not needed, can perform job with minimum language skills

Host Organization:

Microsoft Research Asia

WEBSITE:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/labs/asia/default.aspx

Brief organization profile:

Microsoft Research Asia, Microsoft’s research arm in the Asia Pacific region, conducts fundamental, curiosity-driven research with the goal of realizing Microsoft’s vision of future computing. By harnessing the best talent from across Asia and the world, Microsoft Research Asia has grown from its nascent beginnings in 1998 into a world-class research lab that is constantly pushing the state of the art forward and improving the computing experience for information technology users.

Over more than ten years, Microsoft Research Asia has grown into an organization that has filed patents for more than 1,000 technologies, has welcomed more than 3,000 interns, has awarded over 250 Microsoft fellowships, has published over 3,000 papers for top international journals and conferences, and has achieved many technological innovations.

Technologies from Microsoft Research Asia have had an influence not only within Microsoft but also on the broader community. Over 260 innovations from the lab have been transferred to Microsoft products, including Windows 7, Office 14, Xbox, Office System 2007, Windows Server, Windows Media Center Edition, AdCenter, MSN, Windows Live, Windows Mobile, SharePoint, Tablet PC, and Bing. The lab has also issued more than 20 IP licenses to businesses around the world over the past 4 years and technologies from the lab have been adopted by international standards bodies such as MPEG4 (error-resilient video transmission), IETF (TCP/IP header compression), and ITU/ISO (video-compression technology).

During the past decade, Microsoft Research Asia has also incubated the Advanced Technology Center (2003) and the Search Technology Center (2005) in Beijing; divisions of Microsoft R&D that are helping to further the company’s position as one of the most innovative in the world. 

Many of these successes are the result of an ambitious research agenda that boils down to five areas central to Microsoft’s long-term vision and strategy:

Natural User Interface enables users to interact with a computer using speech, gestures, and expressions.

Next-generation Multimedia allows people to search for and to be immersed in interactive online shopping, education, meetings, and entertainment activities. 

Data-Intensive Computing explores new infrastructures, algorithms, tools, and applications to collect, analyze, and mine results for data-intensive business in both the consumer and enterprise sectors.

Search and Online Ads takes Web search and online advertising to the next level by applying data-mining, machine-learning, and knowledge-discovery techniques to information analysis, organization, retrieval, and visualization.

Computer Science Fundamentals includes areas such as theoretical computer science (theory), systems, networking, and machine learning that will have an impact on multiple applications and products.

City, Country:

Beijing, China

Work Hours:

(June 21 – September 10, 2010)

40 hours/week

Dress code:

Business Casual

Position(s) Available:

MSRA-10-01

Department: Information Retrieval and Mining Group

Number of Position(s): 1

Work description: Our mission is to deliver world-leading levels of accuracy, coverage, and ease of use for search by developing world-leading machine learning and data mining algorithms. We aim at developing fundamental technologies for general web search and enterprise search. Our main technology areas include machine learning, information retrieval, data mining, and natural language processing. We partner with Microsoft Live Search and SharePoint Search. Currently, we are working on five projects: Learning to Rank, Search Result Ranking, Data Selection in Search, Search Log Data Mining, and Next Generation Enterprise Search.

We are looking for graduate students as interns to assist ongoing research and development on web search and enterprise search.

The interns will be assigned to one of the five projects depending on the skills of the students and the status of the projects. The detailed descriptions of the projects can be found at http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/irm/default.aspx.         

Chinese language level needed: Not needed, can perform job with minimum language skills

Additional desired intern qualifications:

• Interns should be able to work full time in MSRA for three-six months.
• They must have solid programming skills, and certain knowledge on machine learning, statistics, and data mining.

Position(s) Available:

MSRA-10-02

Department: Internet Graphics Group

Number of Position(s): 1

Work description: The research in our group covers different disciplines of computer graphics, including real time realistic rendering, appearance modeling and rendering, character animation, mesh deformation, web graphics, and graphics system and architecture.

We are looking for students who are interested in appearance modeling and rendering, realistic rendering and character animation.

Chinese language level needed: Not needed, can perform job with minimum language skills

Additional desired intern qualifications:

• Passion to do graphics research.
• Strong graphics or vision background and have related project experience
• Good coding skills and problem solving skills
• Good communication skills and excellent teamwork.

Host Organization:

Monkey King Search Company

WEBSITE:

wukong.com

Brief organization profile:

This is a startup company which started November, 2008, focusing on mobile search.  The founder of this company is Nick Yang, who is Stanford graduate with MSEE degree in 1999.  At the age of 34, this is the third company he started.  The first company called ChinaRen.com was sold in 2000 for 35 million dollars, and the second KongZhong is currently listed on NASDAQ:KONG since 2004.

City, Country:

Beijing, China

Work Hours:

(June 21 - September 10, 2010)

9am to 6pm or startup hours

Dress code:

Casual

Position(s) Available:

MKY-10-01

Department: General

Number of Position(s): 2

Work description: Work on researching mobile search companies and products outside of China.  Analyze our products and make recommendations on improvement.  The intern can also write a vertical spider code to craw specific types of contents or write testing code to test the usability of sour source code. Depending on the intern’s interest and motivation, he/she can get involved in high-level technology improvement.            

Chinese language level needed: Fluency in basic reading, writing, and speaking

Additional desired intern qualifications:

• Highly interested in mobile search.
• Strong research and analytical skills.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• A team player.

Host Organization:

NEC Labs China

WEBSITE:

http://labs.nec.com.cn/

Brief organization profile:

As a new innovation engine, NEC Labs China was founded in Beijing in 2003, dedicated to conducting both basic and applied research to create future business opportunities. NEC labs China collaborates openly with universities and enterprises worldwide by fostering innovative research, promoting academic exchange and cultivating tomorrow’s researchers.

City, Country:

Beijing, China

Work Hours:

(June 21 - September 10, 2010)

35-40 hours per week for 12 weeks

Dress code:

Casual

Position(s) Available:

NEC-10-01

Department: General

Number of Position(s): 2

Work description: Research Areas: 

Our research interest centers on technology, system, and business aspects of next generation wireless communications and internet applications. Key topics of our current work include LTE-Advance, sensor information utilization, consumer data mining, future scalable internet services, service mash-up etc.

Opportunities to work with us this summer in Beijing:

We invite graduate students with demonstrable research capabilities to consider the following internship opportunities with us this summer:

Conduct survey on emerging high-technology and industrial markets of our research area with global perspectives and help us build up innovative strategy.

Specific topic research in our research areas.                                             

Chinese language level needed: Not needed, can perform job with minimum language skills

Additional desired intern qualifications:

• Graduate students preferred.
• Contentious and responsible.
• Highly interested in our research areas.

Host Organization:

 Nokia (China) Investment Co., Ltd.

WEBSITE:

www.nokia.com; http://research.nokia.com

Brief organization profile:

NRC Beijing pursues long-term research and the development of breakthrough technologies in key areas that are critical to the future success of Nokia. In particular, NRC Beijing, which includes teams located in China and India, drives research of cutting-edge technologies aimed at accelerating market growth in these rapidly expanding markets. NRC Beijing focuses on the areas of new user interface and rich context modeling.

City, Country:

Beijing, China

Work Hours:

(June 21 - September 10, 2010)

8 hours

Dress code:

No requirements

Position(s) Available:

NOK-10-01

Department: Nokia Research Center Beijing Lab

Number of Position(s): 2, graduate students preferred

Work description:

• Project works: the interns will work on concrete projects and apply the UCD process to create and develop innovative ideas to concrete delivers. Students with experiences on the UCD process are expected. Skills expected include 1) design and quick prototype skills with different tools like flash, but not limited to this; 2) skills of conducting user studies including both field and experimental user studies; 3) being innovative.
• Being active in team works including both project works and team activities

Chinese language level needed: Not needed, can perform job with minimum language skills

Additional desired intern qualifications:

• open minded
• good communication skills

Host Organization:

Cybernaut Investments

WEBSITE:

Brief organization profile:

As one of China’s pioneering enterprises, Cybernaut Venture Capital Management orients its investments towards high-tech enterprises and restructuring companies. We focus on the following industries: data communication, health services, financial, educational and other innovative service industries. Our main approach is through direct US dollar investing, co-founder and combining international proliferative services.

Cybernaut was founded by Min Zhu, the founder of the American company, WebEx. also oversees all Cybernaut activities. Having worked on the Chinese farm communes in his youth during the Cultural Revolution, he graduated from the prestigious Zhe Jiang University with a degree in engineering. After post-graduate study at Stanford University, he established successful American businesses in the Silicon Valley, including WebEx.

Cybernaut has   experience from successful American startups, understanding of the culture and business climate of China, and a global, high-tech outlook. Cybernaut not only provides venture capital, but also motivation, cooperation and expert guidance to innovative Chinese entrepreneurs. Our mission is to devote all our energy to provide innovative strategies required by Chinese start-ups.

We have invested directly and jointly with scores of enterprises in new ventures in China. Some start-ups have come to market in the United States; some have achieved national, provincial or municipal prizes for the advancement of science and technology; some have increased their capital net worth by 10 times.

City, Country:

Hangzhou, China

Work Hours:

(June 21 - September 10, 2010)

Dress code:

Position(s) Available:

CYB-10-01

Department: Investment

Number of Position(s): 2, graduate students preferred

Work description: Marketing Analyst

Responsibility：

1）Performing market and industry analysis. Collect、analyze and compile market data, through the market research analysis to provide information to contribute to the marketing strategic planning

2）Reading through business plans, performing due diligence,

3）Analyzing financial reports and valuations

4）Assisting  senior partners in research and support in their deal sourcing

Requirements：

1）good team-player, as well as individual independence

2)  strong adaptability

3)  Good business sense and understanding of domestic and international economic markets.

Chinese language level needed: Not needed, can perform job with minimum language skills

Additional desired intern qualifications:

We prefer the students who have enough marketing, sociology, economic knowledge and good communication skills. Graduate students and senior undergraduate students will be taken into prior consideration.

Host Organization:

Foxconn Electronics, Inc.

WEBSITE:

www.foxconn.com

Brief organization profile:

Foxconn's commitment to continual education, investing in its people long term and localization globally not only leads to the deep collaborating relationships with leading institutions of higher learning, but also helps to make this Fortune Global 500 company's global operations including the largest exporter in Greater China and the second largest exporter in Czech Republic, and also allows it to be the only company consistently ranked among top ten in the Business Week IT100 since 2002.

City, Country:

Kunshan, China

Kunshan, situated in the Shanghai Economic Zone, with the metropolitan city Shanghai to the east and the renowned ancient city Suzhou to the west, is a booming industrial county-level city covering an area of 921 km² and with a population of 1,650,000 people. Kunshan is 18 minutes by the high-speed train to Shanghai. In 2007 the GDP totaled 115.2  billion yuan (US$15 billion), an increase of 20.5% from 2006. The GDP per capita reached over 101,000 yuan (US$13,424). For more information about Kunshan Economic and Technology Development Zone, please see http://www.ketd.gov.cn/english/

Work Hours:

(June 21 - September 10, 2010)

8 hrs per day, Monday through Friday

Dress code:

Business Casual

Position(s) Available:

FOXC-10-01

Department: R&D, Quality Assurance and Manufacturing

Number of Position(s): 3

Work description: You will provide support to product design, development, analysis, prototyping and validation. In addition you may research industry and competitive specifications, review and validate product form, fit and function to customer requirements, benchmark Foxconn product performance to competitive products and assist lab technicians with product validation.

Chinese language level needed: Fluency in basic reading, writing, and speaking

Additional desired intern qualifications:

• Currently enrolled in undergraduate or graduate, full time, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering program.  Rising Junior level or higher.
• Current GPA 3:0 or higher.
• English: Fluent, additionally, Mandarin Chinese is a plus
• CAD: SolidWorks, ProEngineer, AutoCAD are a plus