IBM Research
AI Residency Program
The IBM Research AI Residency Program is a 12-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.
About the AI Residency Program
The IBM Research AI Residency Program is a 12-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 12-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.
Program details
Logistics
Deadline
March 31,2019
Stipend
Provided by IBM
Locations
IBM T.J.Watson Research Center(Yorktown Heights,NY)
IBM Research Cambridge Lab(Cambridge,MA)
MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab(Cambridge,MA)
Almaden Research Center(San Jose,CA)
Program dates
Starts(earliest)
June 1,2019
Ends
12-months from start
Requirements
500-word statement of research interest and goals
Research goals should align to keyfocus area(s)

Research focus areas
Deep Learning
Artificial Neural Networks,Transfer Learning,Few-Shot/One-Shot Learning,Neural Architecture Search,Generative Methods,Reinforcement Learning
Natural Language Processing and Understanding
Question&Answering,Reading and Listening Comprehension,Dialog
Multi-modal Perception
Vision,Speech,Audio
Knowledge and Reasoning
Knowledge/Graph Embeddings,Neural Reasoning,Learning and Reasoning
Trust in AI
Causal Modeling,Explanability,Fairness,Robustness
Scaling
Distributed Learning,Mixed Precision Computation,HW Acceleration,AI+Quantum Computing

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
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