IBM Research
AI Residency Program
The IBM Research AI Residency Program is a 13-month program that provides opportunity for scientists, engineers, domain experts, and entrepreneurs to conduct innovative research and development on important and emerging topics in Artificial Intelligence. The program aims at creating and investigating novel approaches in AI that progress capabilities towards significant technical and real-world challenges.
About the AI Residency Program
The IBM Research AI Residency Program is a 13-month program that provides opportunity for scientists, engineers, domain experts, and entrepreneurs to conduct innovative research and development on important and emerging topics in Artificial Intelligence. The program aims at creating and investigating novel approaches in AI that progress capabilities towards significant technical and real-world challenges.
AI Residents will work closely with IBM Research scientists and are expected to fully complete a project within the 13-month residency. The results of the project may include publications in top AI conferences and journals, development of prototypes demonstrating important new AI functionality, and fielding of working AI systems. The program aims at creating and investigating novel approaches in AI that progress capabilities towards significant technical and real-world challenges.
Program details
Logistics
Deadline
Coming soon
Locations
IBM T.J.Watson Research Center(Yorktown Heights,NY)
IBM Research AI and MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab (Cambridge,MA)
Almaden Research Center (San Jose,CA)
Haifa Research Lab (Haifa, Israel)
India Research Lab (Bangalore, India)
Program dates
Starts (earliest)
Coming soon
Ends
13-months from start
Requirements
500-word statement of research interest and goals
Research goals should align to key focus area(s)
Research focus areas
Trust in AI
Causal Modeling, Fairness, Explainability, Robustness, Transparency, AI Ethics
Natural Language Processing and Understanding
Question & Answering, Reading Comprehension, Language Embeddings, Dialog, Multi-Lingual NLP
Knowledge & Reasoning
Knowledge/Graph Embeddings, Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning
AI Automation, Scaling, and Management
Automated Data Science, Neural Architecture Search, AutoML, Transfer Learning, Few-Shot/One-Shot/Meta Learning, Active Learning, AI Planning, Parallel and Distributed Learning
AI & Software Engineering
Big Code Analysis and Understanding; Software Life Cycle including modernize, build, debug, test and manage; Software Synthesis including refactoring and automated programming
Human-Centered AI
HCI of AI, Human-AI Collaboration, AI Interaction Models & Modalities, Conversational AI, Novel AI Experiences, Visual AI and Data Visualization
Learn more about AI research at IBM
IBM Research AI
IBM Research has been exploring artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies and techniques for decades.We believe AI will transform the world in dramatic ways in the coming years – and we’re advancing the field through our portfolio of research focused on three areas:Advancing AI,Scaling AI,and Trusting AI.
Publications
IBM Research is tackling some of AI's greatest challenges.Our scientists and engineers focus on fundamental scientific breakthroughs to help guide the advancement of AI.Browse some of our latest publications spanning a wide range of core AI disciplines.