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Project database 2013-2014

InStep interns get to work on dynamic projects ranging from application development to business consulting in practices that include Corporate Planning, Education and Research, Enterprise Solutions, Software Engineering, and Technology Labs. Learn more about our internship projects openings and apply online.

Academic Concentration (Bachelor's, Master's, MBA or PhD)	Project Area	Duration (in weeks)	Description (You may specify keywords such as cloud, security, testing, research, marketing, strategy, etc.)
Bachelor's, master's	Java	10	Java Test Oracle Tool Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) A Test Oracle is a mechanism that is used during testing to determine whether a software component behaves correctly or not. The Oracle problem is widely acknowledged in the testing literature and several methods for developing Test Oracles, such as those using formal specifications, algebraic specifications, specification animation, range checking, built-in checks, simulations, documentation and parallel implementations, have been reported. The aim of this project is to develop prototype tool support to generate Test Oracle using popular methods.
Bachelor's, master's	Testing	10	Empirical evaluation of software testing techniques Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Many testing techniques, such as black box and white box, are available in the literature. Some of them are developed keeping in mind different situations, environments and requirements; some of them complement each other; and some of them are similar. It is difficult to choose an appropriate testing technique from many available techniques. Hence, there is a need to determine effective testing techniques. The aim of this project is to determine effective software testing techniques through an empirical evaluation.
Master's, PhD	Research	10	Generation of use case models from requirements specifications Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) The main aim of this project is to derive a framework for generation of use case models from requirements specifications. In general, use case models consist of use case diagrams and descriptions, are derived manually from requirements specification. The process is error-prone due to extensive human dependency and most of the time generates different or inconsistent outcomes. An aim of this project is to address the issue of different or inconsistent outcomes by developing methods for automatic generation of use case models. A transformation method is required for extraction of relevant facts from requirements specifications expressed in natural language into semi-structured specifications. Another method is required for the automatic translation of semi-structured specifications into use case models and vice versa.
Master's, PhD	Research / Development	10	Requirements specification for distributed Agile development Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) In distributed development, software development teams are often geographically distributed from their customers and end users. The demand for distributed development increases due to high travel costs, the local availability of skilled technical staff and a motivating factor, namely, the desire to exploit a 24-hour workday. Distributed development with an Agile process model may reduce production time. However, distributed development creates extensive communication and coordination challenges on the effectiveness of requirements engineering. The main challenge of a distributed working environment is to derive effective software requirements specification (SRS). Requirements activities may be globally distributed as analysts are likely to be working with geographically distributed stakeholders and their teams may be distributed at various in-house locations. Hence, techniques are needed to facilitate and manage distributed requirements elicitation, story cards, high-level modeling, requirements negotiation and the management of teams which are not just geographically distributed, but distributed in terms of time zone, culture and language. The aim of this project is to address this challenge and develop techniques / methods to derive effective SRS for distributed agile development in a distributed working environment.
Bachelor's, master's	Software development	10	Real-time context-aware communication Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Software development organizations have started to adopt follow-the-sun (FTS) approach to achieve customers’ expectation of faster delivery of software products. FTS is an approach in which software development work proceed around the clock across time zones. The software development teams are geographically distributed across different time zones, may be from different organizations, and have different cultures or work environments. As some of the teams are always working on software development, the work is going non-stop 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. To support express delivery of software products, there is a need to devise a technique to reduce communication time between the teams when they pass on the tasks. The main aim of this project is to develop automatic real-time context-aware communication generation from day-to-day software development tasks, such as coding and testing, which can be used in distributed development and other development environments.
Bachelor's, master's,MBA	Social network	12	Social network analytics: clustering large social networks Industry: Infosys Labs Location: HYDERABAD (India) Machine learning models used in analyzing hugely dynamic social networks need to continuously adapt by incrementally training with new data and rules while discarding the oldest. Many of the models built require determining all-pairs shortest paths among reachable nodes in the network. However, efficiently determining the all-pairs shortest path remains a main problem in such dynamic networks. Evolving technologies based on cloud create scope for new algorithms, which can solve this problem. This project includes survey, design and prototype implementation. Scope of this project can even include leveraging existing cloud infrastructure.
Master's, MBA, PhD	Cloud	20	Security control evaluation method for cloud environment Industry: Infosys Labs Location: HYDERABAD (India) In a multitenant environment, many companies hosting the data in a single environment are unsure about the secure data management practices on a day-to-day basis. Some cloud provider might be using management tools to have a complete view of performance and security control status of customer data, but reports are not always shared with the cloud customer. This is more considered as an internal management issue of the cloud provider. It is important from the customers’ point of view to have a more comprehensive snapshot of their security control status of data within the cloud. It becomes more important when the customer is using more than one cloud service and wants to have readily available and demonstrable control capabilities with respect to confidentiality, integrity and availability. In all cases, responsibility for ensuring the protection of end user data lies with cloud service customer company. We plan to propose a security evaluation model and dashboard useful for cloud customers to have a realistic view of their security posture in the cloud environment. This will help the cloud customer understand the security requirements that the cloud provider and cloud customer need to utilize the benefits of cloud environment in a secure and optimum way.
Bachelor's, master's, MBA, PhD	Analytics	24	Quantitative techniques for preventive software maintenance Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Presently, majority of the software maintenance work is reactive in nature. In reactive maintenance, the corrective actions are taken to improve functionality after the failures / bugs are reported by the end user. However, several studies have indicated that the cost of fixing a failure after it is found is USD40K. Therefore, there is a need to focus on prevention of bugs, so that we could prevent failures from occurring rather than correct it after occurrence. Employing such preventive methods and techniques on software applications before deployment is considered as preventive maintenance (PM). PM techniques include, but are not limited to, failure and bug prediction, regression testing, software rejuvenation, architecture conformance, use of knowledge engineering techniques, etc. These techniques utilize the past information available on the application like version histories, bug histories, and documentation, and provide solutions that identify and / or estimate the occurrence of failures. As a step towards quantifying the PM techniques and measures, our research aims to build a novel software quality metric called “Preventability Metric” that would be derived from a quantitative evaluation of the efficiency and effectiveness of several individual preventive techniques employed on the software before its deployment.
Master's, MBA, PhD	Social network	12	Community discovery in online social networks Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) A social system is composed of persons or groups of persons who interact and mutually influence each other’s behavior and is bounded by a set of interrelated activities that together constitute a single entity. Social systems exist at all levels such as people, families, organizations, communities, societies, and cultures. Given a social network, we require a sensible decomposition of the graph into sub-graphs, where in some reasonable sense the nodes in each sub-graph have more to do with each other than with outsiders, they form communities. Community structures and overlapping structures can be detected.
Master's, PhD	Social network	12	Social network visualization Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) The project involves visualization of social networks. The objective is to understand interesting social structures and their peer linkages.
Master's, PhD	Social network	12	Modeling of online social systems Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) A social network cannot be rightly (or rather fully) represented by merely a social graph that connects nodes (users) with the other nodes (connections / friends). There should be some model (some kind of integrated graph) that links users with their interests and other entities (brand, ad, games, etc.) they like and connects different users with common interests. This graph / model will enable linking of a user to interested services and connecting different users with common interests. This type of model would reveal many useful insights like user-user relations, user-brand relations, and brand-brand relations. These kinds of insights might (i) help companies improve the marketing of their products toward specific group of people like users with loyalty to a brand (ii) assist social network sites to better target online services (advertisements, etc.).
Master's, MBA, PhD	Social network	12	Social movements and the role of social media Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Social movements of the type seen in the Middle East have resulted in social reforms as well as regime changes. Social media has played an important role in such events. This project will be a longitudinal study of social movements in a particular geography and examine the role of social media on that movement.
Master's, MBA, PhD	Social network	12	Integrating social network analysis and sensors Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Mobile phone records and mobile phone location information can be used to identify key actors and their interaction with peer groups dynamically and in real time. This project will explore the usage of sensor data to enhance social network data analytics.
Bachelor's, master's	Analytics	12	Project Marple – Core Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Scientific approaches to solve complex problems, as well as modern business processes of the 21st century need to process massive structured and unstructured data in real time. This is only possible if one writes very specialized algorithms that harness the TFLOP / PFLOP power of multicore / GPGPU. However, writing such algorithms is not easy. Here one needs to take care of task distribution and synchronization of tasks carefully. A programmer needs to design such an algorithm with small and relatively independent set of activities to exploit parallel execution. Management of data dependency, optimal data transfer protocol between CPU and GPU, identification of various parts of the program that are data parallel are extremely important. There are several specific internship projects related to Marple. The outcome of these projects will be used to build a set of design aids to implement, analyze, and transform applications for parallel hardware. These aids will be made available to the developers through commonly used design and programming workbenches such as VSTS and Eclipse. The specific areas we intend to investigate are: 1. Design time assistance: algorithms to assist designers to write data-parallel applications 2. Transformation assistance: Here we intend to build algorithms to identify implicit or explicit data-parallelisms that exist in a given sequential program and transform the program to port on GPU. We address various issues related to analysis, prediction and transformation of an existing code.
Bachelor's, master's	Solution development	12	Project Marple – Application development using multicore and GPGPU platform Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Here we build applications specific to a domain, which can optimally harness the multicore and GPU power. We specifically intend to build applications that have graphics-heavy processing.
Bachelor's, master's	iCirrus	12	Project iCirrus: Application QoS and optimal resource management in virtualized environments Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Hardware virtualization technique facilitates sharing of computing infrastructure among multiple applications and provides performance and security isolations. Today, virtualization technology has made rapid progress, and the overheads associated with it are negligible. However, the way resources are allocated and provisioned in a virtualized infrastructure has undergone a major paradigm shift compared to traditional deployments. There are several opportunities for better infrastructure utilization, power management and secure multitenancy using technologies such as dynamic capacity addition, live migrations, power modes and trusted computing extensions. There are several specific internship projects related to iCirrus. Outcomes of these projects will be used to build a set of analysis and assistance tools in the following areas: 1. Resource allocation 2. Optimal application placement that satisfies QoS constraints 3. Capacity planning 4. VM sizing. These projects will use mathematical optimization, simulation and an analytical model for devising computing resource allocation and application QoS management techniques for virtualized infrastructure.
Master's	Social media	12	Social profile analysis using image recognition Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Social media analytics is becoming popular and continuous effort has been made to utilize social data to explore business opportunities. Social referral and recommendation platforms are being developed as part HIMI product suit at Information management group at Infosys Labs. We are in the process of making use of image data available as part of the social profile. Analyzing these image contents can give several data points which will be useful for the social media analytics application. In this internship project, we will be developing some image recognition algorithms to analyze image contents to extract social profile data such as age group, gender and emotions. Final deliverable includes developing a prototype and research report highlighting algorithm and performance evaluation.
Bachelor's	Computer vision development	12	Computer-vision-based component location search tool Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) We are developing image-based component location search solution, where image captured using a handheld device will be compared with the images in the database to find visual nearest match. This requires implementing content-based image retrieval algorithms and experimenting and evaluating algorithms. Also developing proof of concept to demonstrate the solution using a handheld device is expected.
Bachelor's	Research / Development	12	Medical image classification Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Breast cancer is a major cause of death in women. Apart from mammogram analysis, identifying breast cancer requires analysis through biopsy. Here, images of tissue samples are captured from biopsy slides and analyzed for various morphologies. One among these structural indicators is mitotic activity. The task in this project will be to evaluate and improve the existing techniques and / or devise a new technique for detection and categorization of mitosis from high resolution images of biopsy slides. At the end of this work, we will evaluate the technique against publicly available data sets. Final deliverable includes developing a prototype and research report highlighting algorithm and performance evaluation.
Master's	Analytics	12	Image analytics for retail stores Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) In retail stores, there is a requirement to identify various product merchandising conditions such as out of stock, product facing condition, and price compliance and planogram compliance. At present this analysis is done manually and takes a lot of effort and time. We are proposing a computer-vision-based approach for analyzing retail store merchandising scenarios using image recognition technique. Various image processing / computer vision algorithm need to be studied and implemented to develop a solution for image recognition. Expected deliverables include developing a proof of concept for image recognition and algorithm evaluation, and benchmarking.
Master's	Market research	24	System reliability prediction based on degradation models Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Reliability prediction based on degradation modeling consists of multiple degradation factors such as environmental conditions and mechanical defects. The system comprises of multiple components and components may have multiple degradation paths. The system reliability assessment is based on the degradation modeling with uncertainties caused in the model. When the collected degradation data is observed, it is often not known which degradation model is applicable. Here we propose some non-parametric inference methods for modeling degradation data and applying this methodology to ILI data collected in pipeline integrity management. We will compare these results with different degradation models and come up with generalized approach. The models will differ with the kind of systems (such as series parallel and bridge) and kind domain (oil and Gas, aircraft, etc.) we are assuming for the analysis.
Bachelor's, MBA	Cloud	12	Cloud computing in services industry – grand challenges identification Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) A new revolution in the computing platform is evolving, namely cloud computing, where the power of many is harnessed through the means of distributed computing. Cloud computing platform enables businesses an extremely cost-effective means of computing, allowing rent-a-computing infrastructure on a pay-per-use basis. The platform offers an elastic and on-demand scaling of computing infrastructure. Cloud computing will have a profound impact on i) how applications are designed and developed ii) run-time infrastructure – which will be virtualized and hosted in a public infrastructure. iii) Application QoS, namely, performance, usability and security iii) and massive data processing in the order of petabytes and xetabytes. The goal of this project is perform an in-depth market study and propose a set of concrete business and research challenges as well as opportunities that a services company like Infosys is going to face in near future.
MBA	Domain training	12	Domain training deck for a telecom player Industry: Manufacturing Location: HYDERABAD (India) Domain training deck for telecom company
Master's, MBA	Emerging economies	12	Identifying key shifts MNCs need to make to succeed in emerging economies Industry: Infosys Labs Location: PUNE (India) The project will strive to create a data visualization infrastructure for the emerging economies research stream. It will obtain data about trends, economies, industries, consumers, etc., pertaining to emerging economies from various sources and build a reusable framework to analyze that data, draw insights from it and present the data in a user-friendly and insightful manner.
Master's	Online applications	24	Secure query processing Industry: Infosys Labs Location: HYDERABAD (India) Online applications are vulnerable to theft of sensitive information because adversaries can exploit software bugs to gain access to private data, and because curious or malicious administrators may capture and leak data. In this project, we may like to explore a practical and provable confidentiality in the face of these attacks for applications by secure query processing.
Bachelor's, master's	Research / Development	14	CAPTCHA for mobile platform Industry: Infosys Labs Location: HYDERABAD (India) Raising the security bar for automated programs / application to enter into secure networks or utilizing private server resources is the need of the hour. CAPTCHA is used to prevent automated programs from logging into computer systems and utilizing the resources. Though Static CAPTCHA does its job of averting the intrusion of automated programs, this can be defeated in many scenarios. There are many more methods prevailing in CAPTCHA to detect and remove BOT attacks, some of them include 1) Gimpy CAPTCHA, 2) Bongo CAPTCHA, 3) PIX, 4) ECO, and 5) motion CAPTCHA. Of these, the most commonly used model is the Gimpy CAPTCHA, which is easier and cost-effective when in use. The proliferation of smart mobile devices and applications that render desired services on them efficiently, they are increasingly popular with customers. This also opens the window for attackers to exploit the weakness and vulnerabilities (e.g., DOS) of the applications that are being offered. Thus there is a need to have a CAPTCHA for the mobile platform. In this project, we aim to develop a solution that typically suits the mobile application environment.
Master's	Embedding watermark	12	Embedding watermark on the fly while streaming a video Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Piracy is a major problem in the media and entertainment industry. Most of the current solutions depend on DRM systems that are too restrictive and do not provide traditional rights and usages. We have developed an IP for embedding watermark in real time and capture a video on the fly while streaming the video. PoC needs to be implemented for streaming video protection.
Master's, MBA, PhD	Innovations	11	Framework for reverse innovation Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Building an approach and framework for reverse innovation
MBA	Analysis	12	Thought leadership landscape analysis Industry: Infosys Labs Location: HYDERABAD (India) In today’s world, USPs are getting increasingly commoditized. What seems to be a compelling differentiator gets imitated in no time by competitors. Customers are in no mood to pay a premium for a delta change. Today’s clients are very discerning and exhibit sophistication in their buy decisions. Traditional marketing, which till recently could help influence their buy decisions, is increasingly failing, especially so in a B2B scenario. Thought leadership selling is emerging as the next big marketing discipline. Clients are looking for original content and original advisory to make their business decisions. Thought leadership products like journals, magazines, webinars and podcasts are being increasingly resorted to for informed decision-making. Project 1: Thought leadership landscape analysis The project would require the intern to engage in both primary and secondary research to produce a consolidated report comprising of chapters on: (a) Competition analysis: gather information on what our competitors are doing in the thought leadership space (e.g., Thought leadership products produced, frequency, platforms used, feedback, etc.) (b) Technology / tools analysis: gather information on tools and technologies used by consulting / advisory companies; analysis of content management tools; analysis of KM tools. (c) Roadmap for Infosys Thought Leadership Identity Program
Bachelor's	Digital transformation	12	Digital transformation trends and markets Industry: Energy, Utilities, Communications and Services Location: BANGALORE (India) As the Infosys Digital Transformation offering evolves, we will need to research both business changes and vendors providing tools for those changes.
Bachelor's	Water marking	12	Analog hole attack on videos Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Watermarking has been an important solution to protect the multimedia content from piracy. Invisible watermarking methods have gained more importance as compared to visible watermarking methods due to their robustness and highly imperceptible features. However, invisible watermarking methods fail when video is captured using a camera while screening. As a part of this project, we intend to develop an algorithm which will stop piracy resulting from such activities.
Master's	Develop algorithm	16	Scene-change detection for 3D videos Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Scene-change detection is a fundamental step towards temporal video segmentation. Nowadays, 3D videos are gaining importance. A lot of significant work has been done for 2D videos but there is little or no work for 3D videos. As a part of this project, we intend to develop a scene-change detection algorithm for 3D videos.
Master's, MBA, PhD	Research	16	Predicting employee churn Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) There are several interesting research possibilities with respect to employee churn by leveraging data. Possible areas to explore will be with regard to movement of people across companies and skill sets, predicting attrition possibilities, churn predication, etc. The project involves analysis of the LinkedIn social system to understand employee churn to improve prediction and staffing strategies. By linking people profiles, their network measures and social behavior, it is possible to build novel employee churn prediction methodologies and systems.
Bachelor's, master's, MBA, PhD	Recruitment	16	Social recruitment system Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) The evolution of recruiting has transformed significantly over the past few years. Hiring process has been gradually concentrating on the role of social networking sites. This project will explore this further.
Bachelor's, master's, PhD	Java	24	Quantification preventive measure techniques Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) In literature several preventive measure techniques have been proposed. These are bug prediction techniques, architecture conformance, regression testing, etc. Based on these we have proposed a preventive measure framework involving these techniques. The proposed framework will measure the preventive techniques effectiveness in prevention of bugs and predict how well these techniques are preventing the bugs in software. The project involves measuring the effectiveness of these techniques in prevention of bugs. Based on these techniques we will build a tool using Java language.
Master's	Mobile device management	14	Mobile-device-management-based solution Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Trusted ADM team works on securing Enterprise Mobile Application Environment in major mobile OS’s like, Android, iOS, and Windows Phone, as well as on HTML5 for mobile. We do dedicated research and development to come up with solutions, which enable developers to securely develop mobile applications on various platforms. In an attempt to develop secure solutions for mobile, the intention of this project is to come up with a proof of Concept (PoC) on mobile device management (MDM) solution.
Master's	Multimedia watermarking solution	12	Infosys Multimedia Watermarking Solution Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) The advancement in multimedia storage and broadcasting technology has completely changed the shape of traditional multimedia technologies. Users are able to create, share and distribute the multimedia content easily. Video streaming has emerged as a technology for viewing the videos online (e.g., YouTube). However, there are websites which enables downloading of videos from YouTube. These websites provide the end user with the flexibility of copying the content and in parallel, violates the rights of the owner. Certain acts such as SOPA (Stop Online Privacy Act) have been proposed, but still they are ineffective in stopping piracy. As a part of this project, we intend to design a watermarking algorithm, which will watermark the video while streaming.
Bachelor's, master's	Security testing framework	16	A fault-injection-based security testing framework for enterprise cloud infrastructure Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Today software and software enabled product companies heavily rely on offering services through enterprise cloud computing infrastructure. It essentially deals with on-demand sharing / leasing of large data and resources in the cloud, storing the data in distributed data center networks, providing operational accessibility and executing the data in remote systems, and offering integration of the data to provide service-level functionality to clients. This opens up new data security risks, which have significant downsize impact on the overall business value and profitability of the companies. The extreme reliance on cloud computing infrastructure makes the software products a high-value target for those who wish to exploit or sabotage the functional or operational vulnerabilities of the cloud. The objective of this project is to develop process, method and tools for testing logical and physical security implementation in enterprise cloud infrastructure (mainly in SaaS and IaaS models). Here, the logical security implementations mean the consistent and protected operational implementations (execution, resource sharing, access, process migration, etc.) of different applications on distributed virtual machines. On the other hand, physical security implementations mean the access control and encryption based protections over the data center network. The methodology will essentially aim to identify the presence of various security vulnerabilities, which attackers can exploit to launch different potential security attacks (such as, men-in-the-middle, TCP hijacking (spoofing), service manifest attacks (malicious manifest / SLA format injection), violation of migration and security policies and identity theft / impersonation, denial of service attacks, etc. The project will explore the possibilities of using source code fault injection and model checking tools for generating adequate security tests towards solutions.
MBA	Analytics	10	Asset management analytics Industry: Energy, Utilities, Communications and Services Location: HYDERABAD (India) We are currently building capabilities around analytics in the asset management area. The ultimate objective is to develop a solution / IP on top of Maximo, a leading asset management product. The work expected from the intern is mainly consulting. We are not looking for any technical skill.
Master's, PhD	Design and implementation	14	Design and implementation of QoE estimation models Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) End user Quality of Experience (QoE) has evolved as the most critical parameter deciding the effectiveness of delivering any service. With the proliferation of heterogeneous mobile networks, smart end points and increased end user expectations, it is important to have a concrete assessment of service-specific QoE and have mechanisms to dynamically cope with it. The key requirements for this project is to define QoE in the context of two main services – multimedia and Web content delivery, emergency services – and enhance existing QoE estimation models (e.g., PSQA) to support a wide range of contexts that impact the QoE. It is important for such a model to be executable both on client and server side devices.
Bachelor's, master's	Application development	12	Secure communication for M2M networks Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) M2M applications are expected to exponentially increase with the proliferation of cheap sensors, cloud and next generation networks. However, significant challenges exist in enabling secure and optimal delivery of data between sensor networks and cloud-based application platforms. This project will analyze existing approaches for communication between sensor networks and server / cloud-side platforms over multiple relevant parameters and propose an advanced solution that can meet the needs of a wide range of M2M applications. In particular, it will compare emerging protocols like CoAP (IETF) and MQTT-S (IBM/Eclipse) as the mechanism for secure communication between different types of networks. Work will involve implementation and evaluation of these protocols and subsequent design of enhancements to fill the gaps identified.
MBA	Analysis	06	Business metrics for application support Industry: Retail, CPG, Logistics and Life Sciences Location: BANGALORE (India) This is about analyzing and subsequently developing business-based metrics. Moving beyond IT-related SLAs and coming up with relevant business processes that matter for retail business, their sub-domain and sub-processes, as well as coming up with meaningful ways to measure the business metric. This will translate into improvements in the area of application support and maintenance.
MBA	Research	12	Envisaging the future landscape and appropriate business model for IT services firms Industry: Energy, Utilities, Communications and Services Location: HYDERABAD (India) Global Delivery Model at Infosys is essentially a hub-and-spoke model with India as the hub and majority of the work being executed out of India. However this could very well change in a decade's time. This project aims at envisaging the landscape of the IT services industry in a decade's time and suggesting the critical success factors / strategies that Infosys should adopt to remain at the top. The panorama will spread across exploring the changing global dynamics, studying the emergence of new economies and mutations in the well-acclaimed Global Delivery Model, and finally arriving at the strategies and actions Infosys must adopt to tide over the challenges and emerge victorious in the long run. The deliverables will be a research document and presentation covering the above aspects.
Bachelor's	Application development	08	Machine-learning-library development Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Machine Learning Library Development
Bachelor's, master's	Development	12	Mining of temporal association patterns from transaction data in e-commerce Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Infosys, as part of Infosys 3.0 strategy, is developing products, platforms and solutions. One such product is Omni-Channel Personalization Engine for E-commerce. Infosys Labs is developing proprietary machine-learning-based recommendation systems for this product. As a part of this, the intern is expected to develop scalable machine-learning algorithms to detect patterns of temporal associations in customer purchases on massively large transaction data sets (big data).
Bachelor's, master's	Application development	12	Real-time recommendation systems Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Infosys, as part of Infosys 3.0 strategy, is developing products, platforms and solutions. One such product is Omni-Channel Personalization Engine for E-commerce. Infosys Labs is developing proprietary machine-learning-based recommendation systems for this product. As a part of this, the intern is expected to develop scalable machine-learning algorithms for real-time recommendations.
Master's	Analytics	20	Data analytics for Internet of Things Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Energy is very important and has to be saved and efficiently utilized. This project aims to analyze companies’ energy data and develop models that will help recommend ways in which energy can be saved, thereby reducing cost. This project helps companies in saving energy.
Master's, MBA, PhD	Social network	12	Influencer identification in social networks Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Social Network Analysis (SNA) relates to mapping, understanding, analyzing and measuring interactions across a network of people. Social networks, both formal as well as informal, can foster knowledge sharing among participants. This has interesting implications for enterprises wanting to leverage social networks to draw insights and inferences on user preferences as well as for user participation in networks. Using SNA, analysts can explore questions related to social networks such as: Who are the influencers to watch? What are they saying? Where do they interact? What is the strength of these interactions? How does this lead to the emergence of subgroups? This project will explore optimum models to identify influencers in social networks.
Bachelor's, master's, MBA, PhD	Research	12	Mobile augmented reality Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Augmented Reality (AR) intersperses vision with computer-generated information superimposed on the user’s view, which provides users with experiences not possible in just the real or virtual worlds. AR implementations span across virtual environments and reality. AR systems are defined by their ability to spatially integrate virtual objects into the physical world in real time, immersing the user in an information-rich, interactive environment. The objective of the research is to understand the various, prominent mobile-augmented reality systems, underlying algorithms, patterns – and identify best practices. The research aims to understand the emerging trends in mobile-augmented reality systems and build a prototype mobile-augmented reality system.
Master's, MBA, PhD	Corporate study	16	Opponents modeling Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) This project aims to use stochastic modeling-based approaches to predict corporate opponents’ behavior.
Master's, MBA, PhD	Research	16	Understanding innovation at the base of pyramid Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) The project proposed here aims to shift the focus of research on innovation to directly address the needs and constraints of the vast majority of consumers at the base. It aims to develop a better understanding of BOP consumers, producers, and other stakeholder involvement. The proposed research aims to provide guidance to organizations on developing successful innovations for BOP segments.
Master's	Social network	12	Social media analysis for disaster management Industry: Infosys Labs Location: PUNE (India) The project aims to assess the political, economic, social, and technological impact of global disasters on enterprises using signals from social media.
Bachelor's	Winglet design and analysis	15	Winglet design and analysis for a business jet Industry: Engineering Location: BANGALORE (India) Structural design and analysis of winglet for a regional jet aircraft
Master's, MBA	Analysis	15	Enterprise network strategy for BYOD adoption Industry: Engineering Location: BANGALORE (India) The project needs to analyze and define a strategy an enterprise should adopt for its network before allowing Bring Your Own Device. The enterprise network; consisting of different access technologies, policy management, access control, network management, etc., may need an overhaul to protect itself from the potential risks BYOD brings in. The potential risk could be security breach, data leakage, network attack, loss of productivity, lacking user experience, etc. The analysis report should come up with a strategy by identifying and grouping problem areas, identifying solutions for the group of problems, and doing a cost-benefit analysis looking at the future benefit. The analysis should be supported by strategy definition techniques and networking knowledge.
Master's, MBA	Analysis	14	Adoption strategy of SDN by business Industry: Engineering Location: BANGALORE (India) The project needs to come up with a strategy around how software-defined networking (SDN) can be adopted by business. SDN is in an evolving stage now. It is most likely to have a big market in the coming years. However it is still in a technology trigger phase with a very low adoption rate. The project needs to demystify the SDN, has to analyze how SDN is shaping up, evaluate the business benefits claimed by this evolving technology, and identify the practical issues business is facing in adopting SDN. Finally, it has to come up with a strategy around how SDN should be adopted by business. The analysis needs to use literature survey, strategy-definition techniques, network knowledge, competitive study of vendor solutions, market study, etc., to substantiate the strategy.
MBA	Online applications	08	Next-generation online, mobile and branch banking Industry: Financial Services and Insurance Location: PUNE (India) The project requires analysis and study on next-generation banking and there is a need to validate our view from multiple dimensions: 1. A fundamental rethink of customer experience is required across channels, products, geographies, brands, devices and branches. Specifically when prospecting, banks need to implement and evolve with new trends to acquire new and retain existing customers. A comprehensive study is required with respect to geographies on what next-generation online, mobile and branch banking would look like. 2. The study will provide in-depth details for next-generation banking. We need to do a gap analysis with the identified trends for next-generation banking. Are these trends valid worldwide or do they vary across geographies? Infosys provides consulting to different banks in different segments and geographies with potentially different needs. We need to do a broad sweep of the needs and establish the adequacy of the trends and strategize to meet these needs by the banks. We must provide a standardized consulting model, which is customizable for a given bank and help identify the target state for next-generation online banking.
MBA	Market assessment	08	Market assessment for technology modernization Industry: Retail, CPG, Logistics and Life Sciences Location: BANGALORE (India) Research, study and analysis of market trends, market dynamics, successful factors; challenges and opportunities in retail, CPG and logistics domain, related to technology modernization; and IT of the future. Deliverable as a detailed in-depth research project on the above mentioned areas.
Master's, PhD	Software engineering	12	An authoring of requirements constrained by knowledge extracted from process artifacts Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India),PUNE (India) Requirements engineering is the branch of software engineering that deals with proper designing of functions and constraints of software systems. It is believed that the final quality of software systems delivered depends on the requirements on which the software is built. Requirements elicitation is a critical part in any software development cycle. We shall propose a requirements analysis constrained by knowledge implicit in the artifacts, thereby addressing two problems – how to make tacit the knowledge in the form of OWL ontology / knowledge base hidden in these artifacts, and how to use this knowledge to effect the authoring of requirements document written in a subset of the natural language (CNL). We shall illustrate these ideas by instantiating a general framework, with process artifacts in BPMN being the target from which we extract tacit knowledge.
Master's, PhD	Compliance	12	Compliance checking of business processes Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Business organizations are increasingly using business processes, typical examples of them being applying for a bank account, handling visa processing by immigration service, etc. Large process-aware information systems typically log the steps performed during execution of an operational process in some sort of an event log, which can be further mined to obtain valuable information about the underlying process. Event logs show occurrences of events at specific points in time, where each event refers to a specific process and an instance thereof, i.e., a case. They can be analyzed to check whether they are compliant with certain pre-determined rules, e.g., compliance rules. Compliance rules state regulations, policies and quality of constraints business processes must adhere to. Given the large number of rules and their frequency of change, manual compliance checking becomes a tedious job. Automated compliance checking can be used for this purpose. In this project, we shall try to come up with a technique that will help compliance checking of our internal processes. In this framework, compliance rules are translated into temporal formulas, processes are converted to some formal models, and using a model checker it is verified whether the latter satisfies the temporal logic formulas.
MBA	Designing / Communications	10	Designing best practices for the Infosys Global Corporate Communications Function Industry: Marketing Location: BANGALORE (India) The Global Corporate Communications team at Infosys is looking for a talented individual to design and implement standards and knowledge management systems to support the delivery of an effective and efficient communications program in a digital world. The project offers interested candidates a hands-on experience of how a global communications function works and plays a key role in bringing in best practices from across the world to increase the impact of the function.
Master's, MBA, PhD	Virtual learning and blended learning	08	Best practices in instructor-led classroom learning; instructor-led virtual learning and blended learning Industry: Education & Research Location: PUNE (India) Study ways of enhancing session delivery and assessment in three modes of learning, namely, instructor-led classroom learning, instructor-led virtual learning, and blended learning. The intern will be expected to study the three learning environments, analyze the pros and cons of each and suggest / recommend benchmarked best practices for effective learning, keeping in perspective the various stakeholders. It will help the unit incorporate best practices in session delivery and assessment, and play a significant role in helping to effectively develop the competencies of the employees. The deliverable will be a study report summarizing the findings and providing recommendations to bridge the gap between our delivery and assessment mechanism as against the benchmarked ones. Hardware and software provided: A system with Microsoft Office tools and Internet connectivity.
Bachelor's	Social media	16	Manufacturing-specific social media campaign Industry: Manufacturing Location: BANGALORE (India) Social media is still a novelty to many firms and the rules are not yet written. Using social media to build relationships and connecting with current and potential customers will help increase brand awareness. This project will run an end-to-end social media campaign for the manufacturing unit along with the marketing team to help set apart competition and make the difference. It is a learning experience and the intern will need to experiment and see what works best, given the existing channels of blogs, tweets, etc., and also consider opening other new channels. This also involves identifying an appropriate database, sprucing it up and reaching out to the target audience through promotions online and offline. The intern will then follow up with metrics to identify before and after growth. This project will help position the company’s communication, customer service, and collaboration efforts in their totality.
MBA	Innovations	12	Innovation in distribution channels to support new commerce Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Distribution of products and services accounts for a substantial portion of economic activity in modern societies, and development and performance in distribution are consequently of importance to the economy as a whole. It is, thus, important to understand issues around innovation-adoption in distribution channels, and the interdependence of the distribution channel structure and the characteristics of innovations adopted. It will take an evolutionary view and cover the range of models from self-service to cloud model. This project intends to develop this understanding based on secondary data, e.g., articles, published case studies, business reports, etc. The study will focus on a couple of industries.
PhD	Research	24	Boundary spanners and partnerships as the basis of new commerce Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) In a partnership situation, two organizations come together with the stated purpose of creating something new within the dynamics of a business relationship. In such inter-organizational relationships, boundary spanners function as exchange agents and are responsible for information exchange and knowledge creation. This study attempts to understand the role of these boundary spanners in the outcome of partnerships. A social capital perspective of the partner relationship is quite appropriate for the study of such an inter-organizational relationship. The social capital perspective provides for an examination of the structural, cognitive, and relational aspects of the relationship and its effect on knowledge exchange and outcomes. This study would be based on primary data collection and will use a case study approach.
Bachelor's, master's, MBA	Digital economy	08	E-money and new commerce Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Money is undergoing its most sweeping changes since the invention of paper bills. The role of cash is waning, as mobile and other technologies enable us to plug directly into the digital economy. This project intends to understand the evolution and future of money. The study will comprise collating articles and case studies related to non-cash modes of payment. The expected deliverables are a project report and a presentation on the topic.
Master's, PhD	e-commerce domain	20	Intelligent recommendation systems for e-commerce Industry: Business Platforms Location: HYDERABAD (India),PUNE (India) Build an intelligent recommendation and personalization system to cater to the e-commerce domain.
MBA	Software supply chain	12	Future trends in software supply chain Industry: Manufacturing Location: HYDERABAD (India) Future trends in software supply chain
Master's	Cloud	10	Search – SaaS Industry: Business Platforms Location: PUNE (India) Cloud-based search as a service solution using big data. It involves developing code /components, algorithms, which will integrate all components together. It will be highly scalable using high-end clustering and caching techniques.
MBA	Effective talent management	12	To develop a model for effective talent management in niche domains for a global software company Industry: Engineering Location: HYDERABAD (India) To develop a model for effective talent management in niche domains for a global software company iin areas like talent utilization, training / retraining strategy, talent sourcing strategy, retention mechanism, and career management.
MBA	Direct banking solution	08	Automation of validation process involved in enabling direct banking solution Industry: Finacle Location: BANGALORE (India) This project is aimed at optimizing the efforts spent on validation of a direct banking application as well as bringing predictability to quality improvement. The project aims to establish the automation of the validation process relevant for the direct banking solution. The deliverable should be to provide the methodology and steps to be followed to achieve the automation of the validation process. This will involve analyzing the process and test cases, interviewing team members to understand the details behind the test cases, and finally finding ways of incorporating them in the automation model.
Master's	Automated design patterns	24	Build predictability and standardization with automated design patterns, coding and testing suite Industry: Finacle Location: HYDERABAD (India) Every customization and integration development within a core banking implementation comes with patterns. Most implementations within core banking space end up reinventing the wheel. This project aims at identifying these patterns and building standardization components around them using well-defined architectural principles. These defined patterns would then be automated such that the same patterns can be transformed to build in snippets of code. The project also aims at defining an automated testing suite to build predictability and assure quality. A superior build quality would enhance customer delight. Standardization of design, coding and testing would aim to reduce efforts, translating into cost savings. Core objectives of the project would comprise of the following elements: 1. Identify requirement patterns that can be translated to standardized coding patterns and snippets of code. These patterns would also be used to define scripts for automated testing. 2. Measure and set targets for improving defect injection rate, effort per 100 lines of code, and defect slippage in testing. Measure cost of quality and set goals to reduce costs of quality, with statistical analysis of data and standardization of tools and methodology.
Bachelor's	Agile program	08	Developing a POC on continuous delivery for Agile program Industry: Retail, CPG, Logistics and Life Sciences Location: BANGALORE (India) Continuous delivery is one of the advanced software engineering practices that are adopted mostly in agile developments. This enables developers to easily package and deploy software to different environments and finally release to production. This improves the ability of developers to push out enhancements and bug fixes rapidly, reliably and repeatedly to customers at low risk and with minimal manual overhead. This project would develop a POC that would simulate a deployment pipeline connected with version control tools (SVN / TFS), build tools (Ant / Nant / Rake), CI tools (Jenkin / Hudson / Cruise Control), unit test automation tools (Junit / NUnit), PQM tool (Sonar / Fx Cop), QA automation tools (QTP / Cucumber). It will also provide visibility for each environment and its issues. Also, this will provide the capability to move the packages from one environment to another with the click of a button. The team would also compare the effort saved with such a facility vs. the scenario wherein there is no CD process.
Bachelor's, master's	Android platform	12	DRM Content Viewer for Android platform Industry: Infosys Labs Location: HYDERABAD (India) Digital rights management (DRM) is a class of access control technology that allows content owners to set and enforce the restrictions on digital content. The content owners typically include content publishers / distributors and copyright-holding companies such as e-learning websites, music or entertainment industries. To prevent digital piracy, content owners use different techniques, eventually to have control on how their content can be used. DRM techniques control the access to sensitive content by encrypting the original content and including access information and user rights on the content in the form of a license. The user rights include what the users are allowed to do such as viewing, playing or printing a file. Infosys Labs has a digital rights management solution that supports content protection on desktops and laptops. The scope of this project is to extend its capabilities to mobile content on Android platform. In specific, our aim is to create / customize content viewers on Android to support DRM protection for the content. The Android platform, by means of a DRM API, provides an extensible DRM framework that permits the applications (content-rendering software) to manage rights-protected content according to the constraints that are associated with the content. We aim to use the capabilities of Android DRM API to create a PDF / multimedia viewer that interacts with a DRM server for rendering DRM protected content.
PhD	Analytics	16	Big data analytics Industry: Manufacturing Location: PUNE (India) Big data analytics as a means of innovating a manufacturing organization’s supply chain function and bringing in efficiencies that were not possible before.
Bachelor's, master's	Device fingerprinting	12	Device fingerprinting Industry: Infosys Labs Location: HYDERABAD (India) Fingerprint is information collected about a device that uniquely identifies it. The device can be a mobile device, desktop, operating system, browser, etc. Unique device fingerprinting capability is useful in many application scenarios. For example, unique browser fingerprinting capabilities are very much useful in Web analytics to differentiate real traffic from click frauds. Similarly device fingerprinting can also be leveraged in building secure licensing mechanisms and digital rights management systems (DRM) that bind software to run only on specified device hardware. Further device fingerprinting is finding applications in preventing identity theft (phishing scams), etc. Besides its usefulness, it also throws very interesting research problems that excite people to work on it. The challenge is in terms of identifying the right set of parameters that are diverse, stable, and easy-to-collect programmatically. This project aims at doing a literature survey of the state-of-the-art in device fingerprinting technology, an evaluation of fingerprinting techniques, identification of criteria for selection of parameters (e.g., reliability, diversity, stability, ease of access), creation of sets of parameters that are useful for fingerprinting mobile devices, desktop / laptops, and browsers. The project scope also involves building a library that helps in fingerprint creation and verification by dynamically querying the underlying device and demonstrating its results through a POC.
Master's, PhD	Research	24	WAP strengths and weaknesses Industry: Infosys Labs Location: HYDERABAD (India) Wireless insecurity has been a critical issue since the first implementation of the IEEE 802.11 standard (used by Wi-Fi) in 1997. When it became obvious that Wired Equivalency Privacy (WEP), an IEEE standard security algorithm for wireless networks, was compromised, the Wi-Fi Alliance (www.wi-fi.org) developed IEEE 802.11i called Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) to address significant security flaws. In this project, we try to examine the strengths and weaknesses of some attacks and suggest possible ways to detect and prevent them.
MBA	Wireless communication	24	Business models for mobile in fourth-generation wireless era Industry: Infosys Labs Location: HYDERABAD (India) Mobile business is defined as conducting information inquiries and / or business transactions by using mobile devices via wireless communications. It is viewed as the next generation e-commerce and considered the next big wave of investment and application of information technology. Compared with the existing wireless networks, 4G has wider bandwidths, higher bit rates, better multimedia service quality and lower cost. The project work would be in line to explore how the above feature can be used to have new business (models) and improve the existing business models on 3G.
Bachelor's, master's,PhD	Market research	12	A study of security threats in a VM migration process Industry: Infosys Labs Location: HYDERABAD (India) Virtualization has many benefits such as better utilization of processing power and cost-effectiveness. Virtualization is a key enabling technology for cloud services. Live virtual machine (VM) migration is the activity in which virtual machines can be moved from one physical host to another while continuously powered-up. By using live migration techniques in a cloud environment, administrator can take a virtual machine offline for maintenance or upgrade without any noticeable effect from the end user’s point of view. Live migration can also be used for load balancing, effective resource management and energy efficiency. There are various attacks possible when VM is still running and migration takes place. The aim of this project is to study potential security threats in a live VM migration. This project also aims at studying existing security controls / techniques to protect confidentiality, integrity and availability of VMs and propose new protection mechanisms.
MBA	Market research	12	Study of supply chain parameters and how it is affecting the balance sheet of the top 5 companies Industry: Manufacturing Location: BANGALORE (India) We all know supply chain excellence matters, and it is truly reflected in the balance sheet of the companies highly regarded by Wall Street. Research has shown these companies heavily invest in improving their supply chain in the process of building, scalable, resilient, demand-driven, outside-in supply chain planning and execution network. They have been highly rewarded by their improved financial numbers, quarter after quarter, like operating margin and gross margin ratios, ROAs, C2C cycle, and EBIT / per employee. This study will focus on understanding the financial and operational parameters of top companies and come up with a model that will link these parameters, build up multiple scenarios and sensitivity analysis, e.g., how changes in C2C cycle will affect the net margin of the company, or how changes in distribution strategies will affect the operating expenses of these companies.
Master's, MBA, PhD	Research	08	Research and branding for Infosys Communications Lab Industry: Energy, Utility, Communication and Services Location: BANGALORE (India),HYDERABAD (India) Infosys Communications Lab offers a pre-integrated suite of solutions that leverages Oracle's comprehensive offerings for the services industry. These solutions help communication, media and entertainment companies respond proactively to business challenges and adapt quickly to industry trends. Through this project we want to develop an effective branding for the lab for all the internal and external communication. We want to extensively leverage this branding for all the presales and GTM activities we do for the solutions in the lab. We also want to revisit our industry research and foundation challenges.
MBA	Banking domain	12	Business process repository for banking domain Industry: Financial Services and insurance Location: BANGALORE (India) The project aims at creating reference process models (up to L3) for retail and commercial banking on IBM BPM process modeling environment.
MBA	Market Analysis	12	Market analysis and fitment of guided selling solution and rewards and loyalty management solution Industry: Mobility Location: BANGALORE (India) Guided Selling Solution is a mobility solution that enables a sales assistant to service the customer using a tablet device. This solution also enables retailers to provide targeted and personalized service to their customer and build better relationship with the customer.
Master's	Game design solution strategies	15	Patterns of the game design and gaming metaphors Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) This project requires the study of various gaming design patterns and gaming metaphors that can be used for offering ‘gamification’ solution strategies to enterprises. Different patterns and metaphors of gaming have different ways of engaging users. Depending on the nature of the engagement (short-term / long-term, singular-transaction-oriented / progressive-outcomes-oriented, etc.), a specific metaphor can be selected to design the ‘gamification’ approach for the enterprise. Intern will need to study various existing game design patterns and metaphors, and identify their attributes and their applicability to various types of user engagement scenarios.
Bachelor's, master's	Application development	16	Bullet Point Learning Industry: Education & Research Location: PUNE (India) Bullet Point Learning: The application aims to support learning through bullet points. Each topic will be completely represented by a chain of bullet points and supported by additional references. A knowledge base created through bullet points will not only assist in quick learning, but also support speakers in presenting topics to audiences. A knowledge network can be created around this knowledge base.
Bachelor's, master's	Application development	16	Question Bank Development Application Industry: Education & Research Location: HYDERABAD (India) Question Bank Development Application: The application would help the author to come up with the Question Bank (QB). Also help the reviewer do the review and provide the comments. Maintain the version of the QB, discarding the questions temporarily or permanently. One-stop shop for all QB-related operations. Future version can have the assessment facility for events as well.
MBA	3D printing	12	Structure Infosys 3D Printing Service offerings and revenue channel Industry: Manufacturing Location: HYDERABAD (India) 3D printing is a process of manufacturing objects from a digital engineering model. Traditionally, product engineering, development and manufacturing is done using tools like AutoCAD. 3D printing takes this process to the next level of technology maturity. Many new start-ups are evolving, creating multiple entrepreneurship opportunities in this area. This project is all about drafting the strategy and business plan, keeping in mind the market size, opportunity areas and competitive intelligence to identify white spaces for solution and service offerings.
Master's	Technology and development	12	Command Center Prototype for global supply chain Industry: Manufacturing Location: HYDERABAD (India) The supply chain operations are increasingly becoming complex as enterprises expand their global horizons. Enterprises are often blamed for not using the technology adequately for efficiently managing supply chain operations. There is a strong desire for real-time interactions across manufacturers, suppliers, transporters, distributors, and retailers to bring agility to the complex global supply chain networks. The project is about creating a working prototype for command center with communication, collaboration, telepresence, mobility, telematics and remote sensing technology integrations for efficiently managing global supply chain operations. This prototype will bring the next generation experience to the control room with touch and large screens, gesture control, speech recognition and remote control capabilities.
MBA	Framework	12	Framework for predictive software maintenance model Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Project overview: Software maintenance is defined as the process of modifying existing software (installed in the production environment and is being used on regular basis by the business users) to correct faults to improve performance and adapt the system to the changed environment. The maintenance requests are of following categories: corrective, preventive, adaptive, user support and perfective. Today business is facing the challenge of managing and reducing the maintenance and support cost of IT systems. In the current scenario, the maintenance cost is around 80 % of IT spend and at the same time the software systems are getting more complex day by day due to sophisticated business needs, leading to more unpredictability in IT spend. In this context, it is imperative that we have a framework that helps in estimating the right amount of maintenance work needed in a new system, predicting the future state of the system and when the system will need to undergo preventive maintenance exercise, so as to ensure IT spend for the system is kept under control. Primary objectives: a) The framework to estimate the maintenance / support effort for a new system that is to be rolled over to production based on predicting the software maintenance quality. b) The framework to predict system performance trends / system outages, and thereby determining the need for preventive maintenance exercise.
Bachelor's, master's	Analysis	16	probabilistic design of Helical coil spring Industry: Engineering Location: PUNE (India) Recent trends of structural mechanics applications in finite element analysis demonstrate an increasing demand for efficient analysis tools. This topic investigates probabilistic analysis approach applied in finite element analysis for modeling helical coil springs used in various applications such as automotive shock absorbers and aerospace landing gears. Using ANSYS, finite element models needs to be developed to simulate helical coil spring behavior under given loading conditions. Comparison of analytical results with the FE results should be carried out to validate the FE analysis process. In reality, uncertainties exist in a system and environment that may make the application of deterministic design unreliable, with the result that the values of the variables that are acting on the system cannot be predicted with certainty. As such, probabilistic approach should be applied to the model after deterministic analysis. In this study, the probabilistic analysis approach should be applied to account for the variability in fabrication and other input parameters. Probabilistic methodology applied in finite element modeling provides another alternative way of structural analysis of helical coil spring to achieve a robust and reliable design in a more efficient way. In this study, Monte Carlo simulation should be used to analyze the effect of parameter uncertainty. This can be done using commercial FE tool ANSYS. To perform this analysis in ANSYS, user should be familiar with APDL, parametric modeling and probabilistic design.
Master's	Agile program	12	Enhancing agile processes Industry: CORPADM Location: PUNE (India) enhancing agile processes. Define and develop next-gen agile processes.
Master's, MBA, PhD	Cloud	24	In-cloud analytics: data analytics over cloud data Industry: Infosys Labs Location: HYDERABAD (India) Cloud research is focused on delivering an application and computing power as a service. Large number of users access huge number of services residing on millions of servers. Huge voluminous data gets processed every second. The cloud research team at SETLabs has been researching on the applicability of the cloud to various requirements and technologies. A potential outcome of in-cloud analytics project at Infosys labs is to build efficient, optimized infrastructure and resource usage of cloud, and can help in providing computationally heavy analytic services at a very low cost way by parallelizing over cloud. Hosting data mining algorithms over cloud possesses many challenges. For example, development of an attention allocation over cloud spans multiple areas including cloud analytics, distributed analytics, machine learning and text mining. Attention allocation system continuously and adaptively “crawls” the Web while collecting information, which can be categorized into predefined categories. The information so extracted will be rated with relevance score against any particular customer service requirement. Depending on these relevance scores, real-time alerts, reports and feedbacks are sent to customers for their action. The Attention allocation system provides a means of finding the relevance of predefined categories with respect to customer service requirements. This intern project aims at building visualization-driven data analytics for high dimensional real data to study the impact of classification and clustering techniques. Deliverables of the project work are: Literature review on high-performance-computing-based analytics in the cloud environment, development of algorithms for visualization-driven analytics using classification and clustering techniques to support in-cloud analytics, and prototype development.
Master's, MBA, PhD	Analysis	24	Analyzing financial parameters using predictive analytics techniques Industry: Infosys Labs Location: HYDERABAD (India) An inference and diagnostic framework helps in identifying the reasons for a symptom, deviation from normal behavior exhibited by the system, and suggesting a complete, optimal repair strategy for putting the system back to action. Bayesian network helps in enabling root cause analysis that is based on past data. On the other hand, data sets, where the data follows the time series, are generally very large and increase very fast. Remembering the complete data set for any analytics each time represents an overhead. In order to use the vast data set, it is a better idea to capture interesting patterns from the data set, which describe important behavior patterns of data. Thus, there is a clear need to identify interesting time periods or streaks. This project aims at analyzing financial parameters (e.g., macroeconomic variables) and their impact when there is a change in one variable or more. We would like to use Bayesian networks and streak analysis to predict the future scenarios. This project involves designing novel algorithms (or extending existing techniques) to predict the impact and also find the streaks in a time series, followed by prototype development.
MBA	Analysis	12	Mobilizing business processes Industry: Mobility Location: BANGALORE (India) The project intends to do value analysis for mobilization of business processes across domains like retail, CPG, energy and utilities, manufacturing, life sciences, telecom, media, and finance. Each domain has its own set of refined processes; the candidate is expected to understand the core business processes of a particular domain, do a spend analysis and bring out the quantified dollar benefits as a result of mobilizing business processes having the biggest impact in terms of return on investment (ROI).
MBA	Study and development	05	Redefine project billing cycle Industry: Finacle Location: BANGALORE (India) The Instep interns could study the processes followed by Infosys in receiving the funds from the customer for the services rendered. The interns can compare these processes with the best industry practices and help Infosys improve the processes related to the same. This would be a win-win project for both interns and Infosys. The Interns would get exposed to the ways and procedures followed by Infosys. Infosys will in turn improve upon the processes followed and help project managers concentrate more on the project challenges rather than worry more about the process related to invoicing, and so on.
Master's, PhD	Cloud	24	Cloud dependability Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Cloud dependability: The focus of this research projects is on addressing dependability issues in the cloud and virtualized environment. We have collaboration with premier universities and have a world-class cloud infrastructure to do research and get insights from industry experts on the next-generation platforms and trends. Most of our research projects find their applicability to Infosys business, hence there is a good theory-practice bridge.
Bachelor's	social Media	06	Developing a social media footprint for IT products; how to leverage social media for marketing Info Industry: Marketing Location: BANGALORE (India) Today, enterprises want their business operations to be simple. When we use a television or geyser at home, we only pay for the units of electricity that we consume: We do not wonder how that electricity is generated. Enterprises today seek similar solutions – always available on tap, with pay-per-use functionality. Infosys Edge business platforms in the cloud are built on three robust pillars that make business simple and accelerate innovation: pre-built, preconfigured and proven solutions that are delivered in the cloud. With technology upgrades and maintenance completely managed by Infosys, clients can utilize the time and energy they gain to concentrate on their core business. Integration of platforms with core business workloads / IT assets is crucial. We deploy best-of-breed products, technologies and domain expertise to power our platforms, so you get the latest the market has to offer. We bring a proven track record in consulting and professional services, and apply our expertise to integrate platforms and manage them for you. Infosys also takes ownership of both businesses and technical operations, front-ending the exercise and managing the complexity in the background. With this, clients can see clear accountability for their business processes. But how do we market this to our clients? And more importantly with increasing constraints on marketing budgets, how can we use the digital channels, especially professional and social media networks? While it’s easy to open the tap on social presence for products, what should be our ideal roadmap / footprint / blueprint in leveraging social media effectively with structure, sustenance and salience for our products? Should we have one social presence in Edge or identity with multiple suites of products within Edge umbrella – BrandEdge, SocialEdge, and so on? How do we take the next leap of faith in the social?
Bachelor's, master's, PhD	Research and development	24	Project Marple – Core Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Scientific approaches to solve complex problems, as well as modern business processes of the 21st century need to process massive structured and unstructured data in real time. This is only possible if one writes very specialized algorithms that harness the TFLOP / PFLOP power of multicore / GPGPU. However, writing such algorithms is not easy. Here one needs to take care of task distribution and synchronization of tasks carefully. A programmer needs to design such an algorithm with small and relatively independent set of activities to exploit parallel execution. Management of data-dependency, optimal data transfer protocol between CPU and GPU, and identification of various parts of the program that are data parallel are extremely important. There are several specific internship projects related to Marple. Outcomes of these projects will be used to build a set of design aids to implement, analyze, and transform applications for parallel hardware. These aids will be made available to the developers through commonly used design and programming workbenches such as VSTS and Eclipse. The specific areas we intend to investigate are: 1. Design time assistance: algorithms to assist designers to write data-parallel applications 2. Transformation assistance: Here we intend to build algorithms to identify implicit or explicit data parallelisms that exist in a given sequential program and transform the program to port on GPU. We address various issues related to analysis, prediction and transformation of an existing code.
Master's	Mobile market	06	How mobiles are shaping B2B conversations Industry: Marketing Location: BANGALORE (India) How mobile can lift up the overall customer experience while discovering, sharing, and interacting with content. How to use available mobile global ad delivery mechanisms to start or fuel conversations. How mobile can lift up the conversation during the B2B buying cycle in a closed group scenario.
Bachelor's,master's	Automation	10	Automatic masking of documents Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Parts of the documents need to be automatically masked based on certain criteria.
Bachelor's	Framework	12	Defining UI framework for Infosys Maintenance Platforms based on latest UI trends Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) The focus is to understand the latest UI trends and patterns, and analyze the shifts in UI design. Need to come up with new UI design principles to make the user’s interaction with the application easy and user-friendly. Need to conceptualize a framework by understanding the Infosys Maintenance Process from a user perspective and define information architecture and task modeling. Need to come up with wireframes and visual design, providing a click-through dummy prototype for one of the platforms.
Bachelor's	Analytics	12	Analytics platform for operations workbench Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) To leverage application support operations data to build analytics tools for pricing and better decision-making in managing support projects. The project involves design and development of a tool that provides the following set of features a) Pricing model b) Re-engineering of existing application from VB.NET to C# Web page.
MBA	Agile program	12	Study of trends and impacts on release management process due to Agile development life cycle Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) To do secondary market research on the impact of release management process due to Agile development life cycle. To come up with handover framework from the development team to the maintenance team. To come up with a suggestion about the platform features to look for in build vs. buy scenarios for solutions.
PhD	Research and development	12	Can humor be taught? Industry: Infosys Leadership Institute Location: MYSORE (India) In keeping with ILI’s evidenced-based approach to leader development, the ILI team continually conducts scientific research to improve leader effectiveness and help leaders positively impact business outcomes. In our ongoing efforts to examine leadership characteristics or dimensions that impact leader effectiveness, we are focusing on the role of humor in leadership, an attribute some very successful leaders are believed to possess. We would like to scientifically determine if humor can be taught. Project description: This research project focuses on determining whether leaders can be taught or coached to use humor effectively. Role requirement: The role requires the ability to do extensive literature reviews around the topic, aid data collection, and analyze data collected. Deliverables: Key deliverables include a literature review summary table on the topic, analysis of collected data, and as an end product – a scholarly conference symposium paper.
Bachelor's, master's,MBA	Analytics	10	Analytics in maintenance Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) This project is related to data analysis in application maintenance and support projects. The analysis includes identification and collection of various kinds of data used in maintenance and support projects, creating problem statements, and providing meaningful insights into the data. The intern is expected to collect data used in projects, research and define analytical methods, develop or use tools for analysis, and provide various insights about the data.
Bachelor's, master's,MBA	Analysis	10	Integrating of applications running on different networks Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) This project is about finding out what sort of applications are being used in various client organizations of Infosys, at Infosys, as well as examining the nature of data being exchanged between Infosys and client organizations and the kind of applications that can be integrated. The intern is expected to: 1. Analyze applications used in the client organization and at Infosys 2. Identify the data being exchanged between the client and Infosys 3. Identify and provide a business case for the possible integration of applications between the client and Infosys.
Bachelor's, master's	Automation	10	Automation of task allocation Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) This project deals with development of framework / method for automatically assigning oncoming tasks to the next right candidate. The framework should cover the method to select the next right candidate, analyze the nature of task, and then map the task to the right candidate. It should have provision to add other parameters for the task and resources for mapping. The intern is expected to: 1. Develop a framework for identifying the right resource for automatic allocation 2. Identify various components to be developed.
master's,MBA,PhD	Social media	10	Using social media analytics for social risk assessment Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE ( India ) Today organizations are held accountable for environmental and social problems created by their extended suppliers. Globalization and increasing competition have resulted in long and complex supply chains with reduced visibility and control over all the links. It is becoming increasingly difficult for parent organizations to identify, measure, prioritize, and mitigate risks for improved decision-making. Social media can provide early warning of risks facing an organization. Should the board formally review this information, or does this represent an encroachment on managerial prerogative? Which social media metrics should be presented to the board and which is to be excluded? Where do the responsibilities of the board end and those of management begin? One important task of the board is to monitor organizational reputation. How is this currently done? Should overall sentiment derived from social media sources be a primary input in this analysis? Some of questions to be studied are: How do we collect massive amounts of social media data and what techniques can be used for correcting the effects and biases arising from incomplete and missing data? What methods can be used to extract and track the flow of interesting pieces of information that spread and diffuse among users? How can we identify the subset of content that is discussing not only a specific entity, but higher-level concepts that are topically relevant? How do we overcome the information overload and provide users with rich and coherent experience? How to deal with unreliable and often conflicting information? What notions of trust are appropriate?
Master's, MBA	Research and development	12	Integrated reporting challenges and role of ICT Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) There is increasing momentum towards Integrated Reporting worldwide. The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), defines Integrated Reporting as the language evidencing sustainable business. It is the means by which companies communicate how value is created and will be enhanced over the short, medium and long term. It involves a set of processes and activities, one result of which is communication, most visibly through a concise, annual integrated report about the way in which an organizational strategy, governance, performance and prospects lead to the creation and enhancement of value. How each organization attempts to achieve this will vary. Integrated Reporting reflects and supports integrated thinking, defined as the ability of those within the organization, especially management, to understand the interconnections between the full range of functions, operations, resources and relationships, which have a material effect on the organizational ability to create value over time. The journey towards Integrated Reporting therefore also entails a mindset change about how the company makes its money. The objective of the project is to identify challenges for enterprises for Integrated Reporting and how ICT can enable enterprises overcome identified challenges.
Bachelor's	Market research	12	Market research and channel mapping Industry: Manufacturing Location: BANGALORE (India) The project involves researching the various marketing channels, including events, publications, associations, online portals, etc., and identifying the ones with the highest probability to enable achievement of units marketing goals and objectives. The scope includes, but is not limited to: 1) Events 2) Publications 3) Online portals 4) Social media channels and blogs, networking sites, forums 5) Associations Geography: USA, Europe and Australia Objectives: 1) Identify all the key events, media channels and associations that Infosys needs to engage with to achieve their business goals specific to the manufacturing sector 2) Analyze and propose the most cost-efficient engagement solutions with these channels 3) Propose the best engagement options and create a calendar for the same 4) All the proposed solutions need to be substantiated with data-based logic. Research approach: an indirect Web-based research. Direct: contact the various channels to collect the required information about the engagement options and the costing.
MBA	Framework	12	A framework to identify and validate grand challenges of the organization Industry: Infosys Labs Location: PUNE (India) Organizations face lot many challenges that affect their business; however not every challenge has a big impact on organizational growth. The problems that impact organizations substantially are the grand challenges of organizations. If challenges are clearly defined and validated as grand challenges then the organization can focus on those challenges and will be able to devise some solutions to tackle those challenges. The key issues are: How to identify organizational challenges? How to validate identified challenges as grand challenges? How to prioritize grand challenges? How to align grand challenges to empower tomorrow’s enterprise? From a technology perspective, the issue is about using technology to manage the grand challenge. The solution to address this problem lies in developing a comprehensive framework, which will provide a step-by-step methodology to identifying and validating the grand challenge. The methodology for developing the framework can be: (1) First step is to identify the key variables that will define grand challenge. (2) After identifying the key variables, it is necessary to find the data and data sources required for those variables. (3) Metrics need to be developed to identify the impact of these variables and availability or unavailability of data. (4) A formula or algorithm has to be devised to identify the overall impact of the grand challenge on the organization. This framework will be helpful in prioritizing challenges, and hence resources can be optimally used to solve organizational challenges. It will help organizations to be more competitive in tomorrow’s world.
MBA	Innovations	08	Insights on North American Companies – Innovation Practices Industry: Education & Research Location: BANGALORE (India) Insights on North American Companies Innovation Practices. Deliverable: Top 10 Innovation Practices (with a detailed analysis on how this top 10 was arrived at)
MBA	Innovations	08	Insights on European Companies – Innovation Practices Industry: Education & Research Location: BANGALORE (India) Insights on European Companies Innovation Practices. Deliverable: Top 10 Innovation Practices (with a detailed analysis how this top 10 was arrived at)
Bachelor's, master's, MBA	Banking domain	12	Strategy for Infosys Labs offerings in the banking domain in the European market Industry: Infosys Labs Location: HYDERABAD (India) As part of the project, the intern would have to conduct a Europe-specific market study about the latest business / technology trends in the banking domain and map them to the products / research being done at Infosys Labs. The project goal would be to gain valuable information on key prospect areas for Infosys Labs. At the end of the project, the intern would give recommendations on key domain-specific ideas that Infosys Labs could focus on to take to market.
Bachelor's, master's, MBA	Market study	12	Strategy for Infosys Labs offerings in the retail domain in the European market Industry: Infosys Labs Location: HYDERABAD (India) As part of the project, the intern would have to conduct a Europe-specific market study about the latest business / technology trends in the retail domain and map them to the products / research being done at Infosys Labs. The project goal would be to gain valuable information on key prospect areas for Infosys Labs. At the end of the project, the intern would give recommendations on key domain-specific ideas that Infosys Labs could focus on to take to market.
Master's, MBA	Analysis	08	Analysis of digital marketing solutions Industry: Education & Research Location: BANGALORE (India) Analysis of digital marketing solutions. An in-depth survey of SaaS based and licensed software product ecosystem for digital marketing Solutions. Deliverable: Digital marketing solutions (Platform / software stack recommendation) with detailed selection criteria and method adopted.
MBA	Research and development	10	A point of view on asset management with GIS, scheduling and mobility Industry: Energy, Utility, Communication and Services Location: HYDERABAD (India) Asset-intensive utility organizations look for a combination of asset management solutions, GIS capabilities, and scheduling and dispatching, along with the mobility needs of their field force. This project would identify such use cases / business needs, which would help us in developing a POC in this area.
Bachelor's, master's, PhD	Market research	12	Shopping path discovery Industry: Infosys Labs Location: HYDERABAD (India) Retail customers find shopping in huge retail malls stressful due to various reasons such as being unable to locate the items, overcrowded stalls and long queues. In this work, we are looking at a solution to determine optimal shopping paths to locate the items based on the wish list of a customer. We developed a graph-theory-based approach to discover shopping paths based on the shelf-item layout and customers’ purchase patterns. We also propose an efficient approach to recommend profitable shopping paths to cross-sell potential buy-in items close to the base shopping path. Our approach also facilitates updating the item list and discovering the paths dynamically while shopping. We also aim to work on shelf optimization, where the above solution can also be used to help in optimizing product shelves, to optimize the routing path further. The proposed solution provides enriched shopping experience to customers.
Bachelor's, master's, PhD	Network analysis	12	Range forecasting Industry: Infosys Labs Location: HYDERABAD (India) Forecasting plays an important role in planning in advance for businesses-like demand / production of consumer goods, energy, etc., and selling / buying stocks, weather prediction, and many more. There are areas where forecasting of any output variable can be uncertain, and it depends on how some external key variables behave during the period. Situations where the chance of forecasting output variable accurately is very less due to uncertainty, it is useful to forecast a thin range (within which value of output the variable may lie). Our requirement is to come up with a novel range forecasting algorithm as a part of Bayesian network analysis on numerical data sets like financial and operational data. We aim to devise an approach which can make use of the Bayesian analysis results, like inference and post distributions, to find better and thinner forecasted range.
Bachelor's, master's, PhD	Research and development	16	Structural discovery in Bayesian network analysis Industry: Infosys Labs Location: HYDERABAD (India) There are two main parts to the Bayesian network. Network structure discovery and network parameter learning. In this project, we aim to develop approaches for discovering the right network structure for Bayesian learning, based on both numerical and discrete input data. We plan to use domain expert knowledge as an input to the structure leaning algorithm, in terms of topological ordering, to reduce the time-complexity effectively. We are keen to find out the possibility of a learning network structure using a numerical data set, which will enable a lot of business opportunities in the financial and operation domain.
Master's, PhD	Analytics	15	Drug repurposing Industry: Retail, CPG, Logistics, and Life Sciences Location: BANGALORE (India) We are working on providing an analytical workbench to provide early indication area for drug - Drug Repurposing. We have a plan and model in place. We need to take this to next level. We want to explore the areas which are untouched and define the algorithm and approach for same. A key focus will be on transcription and MoA-based model. This will benefit pharma companies a lot by bringing life to their shelved / released drugs at a low cost.
Master's, MBA, PhD	Life science	20	Requirement details and test case identification for various regulatory requirements in life sciences Industry: Retail, CPG, Logistics, and Life Sciences Location: BANGALORE (India) Quality and compliance for life sciences industry is a key focus area. Infosys is looking forward to create assets for various regulations in life sciences across various countries. To start with, some of these regulations will be 21 CFR Part 11, GCP, GLP, GRP, and SOX. The team is planning to come up with detailed requirements against each control, and then define the test cases for each one of them. This will also feed into the platform implementation we are doing, that will help manage the end-to-end quality aspects for life sciences companies.
Bachelor's, master's	Automatic modularization	12	Automatic modularization of legacy systems Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Software systems need to be modular for better maintenance. Systems evolve over a period of time and the initial design and architecture may not get adhered to. It is important to have a relook at the system’s modularity and improve architecture. This project focuses on modularization of legacy systems to improve the code dependencies.
Master's	Social media	24	Professional network of Infosys Industry: Financial Services and insurance Location: BANGALORE (India) FSI STAR is the architecture group of FSI in Infosys. We are looking at social media and RIA as two of the five trends for 2013. Towards that we have developed a social networking platform. This InStep project has three main objectives 1. Cheerkut is the social networking application for the unit and is being developed / maintained by six members of my team currently. It is live, and this project is to enhance it for microblogging, cloud migration, app portal framework, and incorporate RIA features. 2. Extend the study on Web 2.0 applications that we did at Infosys in 2010–11 and understand what is needed to make community building in closed organizations a success 3. Develop a good moderation mechanism based on community rules for wider adoption 4. Modify it into a professional network.
MBA	Asset management	12	Optimizing surface transportation asset management Industry: India Unit Location: HYDERABAD (India) This project will primarily focus on the asset management process specific to surface transportation, and look into the opportunities for overall process optimization and business benefits. This project will include the following steps: identification of the key business processes, identification of value drivers and levers, identification of key challenges, analysis and derivation of overall process optimization opportunities, defining effective process controls, key performance indicators as well as overall business benefits.
Bachelor's, master's, MBA	Asset management	15	The case for developing an asset information model Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) This project is aimed building an asset information model for asset-intensive industries as the key enabler in gaining complete control of assets and effective asset management decision-making.
Bachelor's	Engineering	10	Engineering process management system Industry: Engineering Location: PUNE (India) We are working on a concept and framework for engineering process management (EPM), which is similar to business process management (BPM) Software Systems. The EPM processes are applicable to engineering and manufacturing industry sectors, which include engineering processes that involve design, simulation, testing, product data management, quality and other elements of product development. The engineers in this industry generally have several manual processes and manage them in Excel, Access or other applications. The overall process steps would include some manual and custom applications related to the engineering process, as well as some commercial applications. Capturing the engineering processes, modeling them, and developing the EPM models in an EPM system will help in quickly executing the specific process across a common platform and database. This will greatly add to productivity. Some processes change dynamically and hence the EPM system should be able to allow the dynamic changes in the workflow, dashboard, and integration to systems. The study would include a. Literature survey of contemporary BPM and PLM applications. b. Developing a high-level architecture and data model c. Developing a paper proof of concept d. Possibly develop a software code for use case around an illustrative engineering problem that can reflect the real scenarios in the industry.
Master's	Framework	10	Knowledge Based Engineering (KBE) framework Industry: Engineering Location: BANGALORE (India) Knowledge Based Engineering (KBE) is about the development of expert systems for artificial intelligence and automation of repetitive tasks in engineering design and development. A KBE Framework is being developed to encompass several scenarios in the design, development, simulation, manufacturing and testing of innovative products and large-scale structures. The framework can be applicable to requirements management, modeling of engineering processes, conversion of unstructured-to-structured knowledge / process models, automated code generation, automated document or report generation in text / visual formats. The scope of this project can include: 1. Literature survey on KBE, expert systems, code generators, requirement modeling systems, BPM systems and software development tools. 2. Development of a high-level architecture and data model 3. Development of a high-level software specification 4. Representation of an illustrative industry scenario 5. Development of a paper proof of concept from start to end for a chosen industry scenario 6. Development of a pseudo-code or a sub-scenario of the KBE framework for the industry scenario (Note: It would be helpful to know some programming language like Java / .NET. There would be help available.) What can be the acquired experience from this internship? Requirements management, software life cycle, literature survey and software specifications development, software architecture, process modeling, and execution. Desired internship location: Bangalore, Mysore
MBA	life cycle analytics	12	Life cycle cost modeling and analytics Industry: Engineering Location: BANGALORE (India) Airline transportation of people and products is at the epicenter of the economy today. However, the airlines are not making enough profits due to various reasons such as fuel, operational efficiency, asset management and cost life cycle management. The current research project is focused on analysis and modeling of life cycle costs of airlines and specifically aircraft assets, from acquisition through operations and maintenance. The scope of work would include literature survey and research of airline life cycle costs, mathematical modeling, and simulation of a few scenarios including data visualization. The acquired experience from this internship are industry analysis, market studies, product comparison, good understanding of life cycle costs of products or services through the value / supply chain, mathematical modeling and optimization, sensitivity analysis of various scenarios. The industry is always focused on reducing costs of their product or services, so that they could improve their profit margins. The research will provide a good basis for acquiring this experience. Desirable location: Bangalore / Pune, India. Desirable experience: Aerospace / computer science / mathematics / operations research
MBA, PhD	Learning and development	24	HR process optimization Industry: Human Resources and Development Location: HYDERABAD (India) The interns will work on a Process Improvement Project that will align to Six Sigma or Lean methodologies of process optimization. The intern is expected to bring in dramatic and radical changes to the process, resulting in improvement areas like resource optimization, cost reduction or cycle time reduction. The project will require the intern to work with cross-functional teams from within and outside HR. The intern will be given relevant guidelines and learning on the methodologies before starting the project, so that they are able to leverage maximum out of the project.
Master's, PhD	Research	12	Multi-user-range-query-supported searchable encryption Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Range-query-based searchable encryption is a method that not only performs keyword match, but also facilitates range queries on encrypted data stored on a remote storage. The present technologies provide mechanisms for range queries, but involve a very high overhead in data storage and are applicable only on arranged data. Such databases possess high scalability issues due to difficulties in data addition, modification and search. More research is required to support multi-user setting. The scope of the internship includes research on the concept of range queries over encrypted data on a secure, but curious data store in a multi-user scenario. It covers analysis of the existing methodologies on query-based searchable encryption and to propose a method in a multi-user scenario for real-time data. The intern may also develop a security analysis model and proof of concept to demonstrate the proposed solution.
master's,PhD	Requirements management	12	Concept extraction from natural language use case requirements Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India),PUNE (India) Requirements management is the process of documenting, analyzing, tracing, prioritizing and agreeing on requirements, and then controlling change and communicating to relevant stakeholders. It is a continuous process throughout a project. This process of requirements management would be greatly helped if the requirements could be stated in an unambiguous way, such that it is understandable and acceptable to all the stakeholders. One way to achieve this would be to generate a requirements model in a representation with the characteristics of being unambiguous and easy to understand. Creating such models directly would be a difficult task. Instead, if requirements could be represented using the normal requirements elicitation techniques, and from those requirements if a model could be generated / extracted then it could be very useful. If this model was represented in a format like ontology – wherein it can be further analyzed for consistency and completeness, and be queried upon for traceability – then such a model would greatly help in solving most of the problems with requirements engineering.
MBA	Website strategy	10	Website strategy and content for the Financial Services and Insurance vertical Industry: Financial Services and insurance Location: BANGALORE (India) Designing and delivering a better Web experience for visitors to the Financial Services and Insurance (FSI) pages of the Infosys website. This must translate to an increase in Web traffic and the number of leads.
Master's, MBA, PhD	Application development	12	Application of M2M platform to various verticals Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Machine to machine (M2M) has a role in the worldwide network formed by connecting everyday objects like appliances and vehicles. We have projects to measure and improve, including automation of tasks, analysis of and innovation around the gaps identified. The technology areas which we work are wireless sensor networks, connected digital objects, RFID, machine to machine (M2M) and energy management. We wish to address the challenges of M2M in different verticals. It would be great if we can get interns with prior experience of working in energy, health care, retail, manufacturing, logistics, and telecom / networks.
Master's, PhD	Analytics	16	Analytics and optimization in M2M space Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) The role of machine to machine (M2M) is increasing in day to day life. We have projects to measure and improve, including automation of tasks, and analysis of and innovation around the gaps identified. The technology areas which we work are wireless sensor networks, connected digital objects, RFID, machine to machine (M2M) and energy management. We are looking specifically for interns who can improve our M2M platform with the analytics and optimization capabilities. It would be great if we can get interns having experience in R, Cplex, etc.
Bachelor's	Environmental study	12	Evaluation of regulatory environment variance on regions in environment, health and safety Industry: Business Platforms Location: BANGALORE (India) The project requires the intern to evaluate the regulatory environment in Europe / South America / Africa for the expansion of businesses in these regions. The industry focus will be on chemical industry and mining. (The industry focus may change depending on requirement. The regulatory focus will be on environment, health and safety in the industries mentioned above. A typical output at the end of the exercise will be: a) What are the local regulations required for setting up a unit for the specified industries in each of the industry type? b) Understanding the local environment and challenges for each of these industries, including historical challenges for each of these industries c) Local cultural issues affecting these industries.
Bachelor's, master's, PhD	Application development	12	BI tool based decision support for preventive software maintenance Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Why did this release have more bugs? Which files do I have to test more? Which open bugs are difficult to fix? These are some of the questions managers and developers have to grapple with routinely during software maintenance. The answers to these questions impact a number of decisions related to tasks such as quality assurance, task allocation, project planning and so on, and thus have a bearing on the project success. Unfortunately, even though some of these decisions are critical and affects the quality of software, they are largely based on experience and gut feeling. This project aims to develop a tool to help managers and developers take such decisions.
Bachelor's	Digital technology	12	Electronic signatures – generic file signing and verification utility Industry: Infosys Labs Location: HYDERABAD (India) Electronic signatures are the digital equivalent of handwritten signatures. Electronic signatures provide the consent of signer for the content signed and are recognized as legally valid instruments across much of the geography. Electronic signatures help in completely automating (digitizing) business processes. The main bottleneck in many business automation efforts is the need for manual approvals in the workflow using ink (handwritten) signatures. Electronic signatures help in resolving this issue. Electronic signatures help in building faster, more efficient, secure and cost-effective business processes. They result in significant cost saving as a result of avoiding paper and associated costs (paper, printing, courier, storage, etc.) and also result in quick turnaround times in closing business deals. The advancements in digital signature technology, mandate from regulations to build secure processes, and pressure from market competition to reduce cost of operations are the main driving factors behind the rise in adoption of electronic signatures today. From a technology point of view electronic signatures address authenticity, integrity, and non-repudiation requirements of business transactions. The aim of this project is to build a generic utility that helps in digitally signing and verifying any electronic content (txt, html, pdf, office docs, images, executable, etc.). The tool should either run stand-alone or should be invoked from within a browser environment. The tool should also support multiple signature format standards like XML Dsig, and CMS/PKCS#7. The signature verification process involves building and verifying the digital certificate chain for status verification, and can also be used in case of non-repudiation litigations.
Bachelor's, master's	Digital technology	12	Electronic signature service Industry: Infosys Labs Location: HYDERABAD (India) Electronic signatures are digital equivalent of handwritten signatures. Electronic signatures provide the consent of signer for the content signed and are recognized as legally valid instruments across much of the geography. Electronic signatures help in completely automating (digitizing) business processes. The main bottleneck in many business automation efforts is the need for manual approvals in the workflow using ink (handwritten) signatures. Electronic signatures help in resolving this issue. Electronic signatures help in building faster, more efficient, secure and cost-effective business processes. They result in significant cost saving as result of avoiding paper and associated costs (paper, printing, courier, storage, etc.) and also quick turnaround times in closing business deals. The advancements in digital signature technology, mandate from regulations to build secure processes, and pressure from market competition to reduce cost of operations are the main driving factors behind the rise in adoption of electronic signatures today. From a technology point of view electronic signatures address authenticity, integrity, and non-repudiation requirements of business transactions. The aim of this project is to build a generic electronic signature server that is capable of providing electronic signature storage and verification services. Integrating digital signatures into enterprise applications like Web portals and workflow systems is a challenging task that often needs design changes in existing architecture. This project is aimed at providing key signature functionality as standard Web service definitions that allow seamless integration of digital signature support into existing enterprise applications. The scope of project involves designing and implementing a digital signature server from scratch that offers signature storage and verification services.
Bachelor's, master's	Digital technology	16	Electronic signatures using mobile devices Industry: Infosys Labs Location: HYDERABAD (India) Electronic signatures are digital equivalent of handwritten signatures. Electronic signatures provide the consent of signer for the content signed and are recognized as legally valid instruments across much of the geography. Electronic signatures help in completely automating (digitizing) business processes. The main bottleneck in many business automation efforts is the need for manual approvals in the work flow using ink (handwritten) signatures. Electronic signatures help in resolving this issue. Electronic signatures help in building faster, more efficient, secure and cost-effective business processes. They result in significant cost saving as result of avoiding paper and associated costs (paper, printing, courier, storage, etc.) and also quick turnaround times in closing business deals. The advancements in digital signature technology, mandate from regulations to build secure processes, and pressure from market competition to reduce cost of operations are the main driving factors behind the rise in adoption of electronic signatures today. From a technology point of view, electronic signatures address authenticity, integrity, and non-repudiation requirements of business transactions. An interesting challenge in adopting electronic signatures in enterprises include addressing how the technology can be seamlessly integrated with the mobile infrastructure (mobile phones, PDAs, smart phones, etc.). While today’s mobile devices are powerful enough to carry electronic signature and verification mechanisms, the challenge is in terms of visualizing use cases that allow a smooth integration of digital signature user experience on mobile devices. This project focuses on studying the digital signature capabilities of different mobile platforms (Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Windows CE, etc.), and defining an architecture that allows digitally signing different forms of electronic content from mobile devices and desktop based infrastructure in an approval-based workflow in enterprises.
Bachelors	Analysis	20	Custom entity extraction through machine learning Industry: Infosys Labs Location: PUNE ( India ) A huge amount of data is getting accumulated in the form of literature, on the Web, etc. Keeping track of this data and its intelligent use has been identified as a major challenge in the information systems community. Take an example of an analyst analyzing the energy companies. She/he may be interested in all the energy projects and their respective production capacities. To gather this information and to use for advanced analytics, she/he needs a solution which can extract this form in unstructured format. Though humans can extract this kind of information, the hugeness of this unstructured data makes it impossible to be done manually. So we need machines to automatically extract relevant information for us. This is an open challenge the information systems community has been facing for three decades. One of the strands of our work deals with developing solutions to information extraction from text. In many cases, the best way to do custom extraction is by using machine learning. The objective of this project is to apply and enhance some of the already existing machine learning techniques (HMM, Naïve Bayes, CRF, Advanced-SVM) for the problem of custom entity extraction from unstructured data in natural language English. Tasks in the project: Study various machine learning techniques. Apply techniques (and produce code) for custom entity extraction. Perform deep analysis and evaluation of various machine learning techniques.
Bachelors	Application development	20	GUI for entity extraction and annotation Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE ( India ) Enterprises today have a lot of information available as free text, which holds a lot of important information. But this can only be understood by humans, and deploying humans to understand and consume this volume of information is impractical. There is a need to automatically transform this information into computer understandable form – a widely accepted fact in the semantic community. Our group, Center of Knowledge-Driven Information Systems (Infosys Labs) is researching this particular area. The internship will also focus on creating tools and systems that make it easier to understand and consume unstructured content. Named-entity recognition (NER) is a subtask of information extraction that seeks to locate and classify atomic elements in text into predefined categories such as the names of persons, organizations, and locations. There are several tools available for NER annotation, but the output of the tool is quite often not accurate. This calls for manual intervention to improve the NER performed by a tool. The objective of this internship is to create a rich and intuitive user interface which is able to display annotations from a variety of tools and will allow for correction of annotations.
Bachelors,Masters	Apache SOLR 4.0	14	Next-generation smart enterprise search system Industry: Infosys Labs Location: PUNE ( India ) Build and evaluate Smart Search in Apache SOLR 4.0 by integrating a natural language processing (NLP) engine into the content-indexing pipeline. Enterprise Search is ready to be transformed by leveraging lexical and semantic resources and technology. This will help improve information ‘findability’ and its ease of consumption and integration.
Bachelors,Masters	Analysis	15	Evaluate physical indexing options for entity-centric indexing as part of next-generation smart sear Industry: Infosys Labs Location: PUNE ( India ) Evaluate physical indexing options for entity-centric indexing as part of a next-generation smart search system. The next-generation of enterprise search systems will employ a granular indexing scheme that is more fine-grained that the document-centric models in existing information retrieval systems. In this project, we will examine options for the physical indexing layer of such entity-centric indexing. We will evaluate key-value store and semantic stores in terms of scalability, and index read and write performance.
Bachelors,Masters,Ph.D	Research	15	Build and evaluate lexico-semantic resources within smart enterprise search Industry: Infosys Labs Location: PUNE ( India ) We are building a next-generation enterprise search that leverages NLP technology. We believe that lexical resources that describe the relevant word space like WordNet and Semantic Resources like Domain Ontologies need to be built for specific verticals and domains if we are to develop effective search systems. These resources will be designed to support multiple languages and can either be manually created or populated by extracting terms and entities from the existing corpus of content in a specific vertical. In this project, we want to evaluate physical formats and in-memory data structures for such lexical and semantic resources and integrate them into a search system. We would like to see the measured improvement in search precision and recall over test corpus in two verticals to validate the system design.
MBA	Testing	08	Service offerings for Europe for ADM, infrastructure management and testing Industry: Retail, CPG, Logistics, and Life Sciences Location: PUNE ( India ) Background expansion in the European markets is one of the key focus areas of the Infosys RCL (Retail, CPG and Logistics) industry vertical. To help accelerate the growth, we would like to expand our footprint into different countries as well as expand our client footprint in the region. Over the last couple of years, the growth has been lesser than expected in the operations part of the RCL portfolio (Application development and maintenance, validation services, infrastructure management). While historically Infosys has had a good presence in the U.K. market, the need to expand in markets beyond U.K. is increasingly felt. Keeping the above in mind, we would like to conduct a study of the market to help us understand the gaps between market expectations and Infosys service offerings better. The objective of the study is to discover, assess and analyze the European IT market from the retail, CPG and logistics industry vertical point of view for the ADM, IMS and IVS service lines. The areas could cover (1) Insights into the European market subdivided by major geographies: UK, Germany, France, Benelux, Nordics and mapped to the service offerings around application development and maintenance, infrastructure services, validation services. It will also cover the analysis of different spend patterns. (2) Competition landscape in these markets. Strengths of the competition as perceived by the market including any Europe-specific strategies they may be adopting. (3) Points of view on working through the potential language challenges in different EU countries like France and Germany. (4) Any insights into the technology landscape / trends of the region for Infosys to make appropriate investments and build capability proactively. (5) Large outsourcing deals that are up for renewal in the near future, which Infosys could actively look to go after.
Bachelors	Web Base	20	Web-based system for custom concept map creation Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE ( India ) A web-based front end to facilitate creation of customized lexical and semantic resources for verticals or specific domains. This system will help a user graphically create and connect words or concepts. The result will be similar to a smaller form of WordNet for that domain with relations like synonyms, antonyms (between words) and various named relations relevant to a domain in the concept network. The links from words to concepts are important and should support multiple languages. Relations between concepts could be skos: Narrower, skos: Wider or any other named relation like “part of”. It should be possible to visualize the whole concept and word space.
Bachelors,Masters	Legal systems	12	Semantic clustering of legacy systems Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE ( India ) Legacy systems may not have sufficient documentation. Newcomers find it difficult to adapt to the environment. It is needed that there is a good comprehensive view of the systems for the team to quickly understand the overall system and behavior. The system’s source code has a lot of semantics in various forms and it can be extracted and leveraged for clustering and semantic analysis of the systems.
Bachelors,Masters	Application development	12	Map Reduce based graph filtering approaches Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE ( India ) Currently Map Reduce is one popular way of handling complex or big data-related problems. In this work, we explore usage of Map Reduce for graph Filtering and other graph-related problems. In software engineering, control graphs and data flow graphs are used for various analysis needs and the existing approaches fail to scale up. Hence Map Reduce-based approaches are being adapted to address them.
MBA	Benchmarking	12	Competitive benchmarking for social Interactivity, receptivity and likability Industry: Marketing Location: BANGALORE ( India ) Social media is the fastest and the strongest form of marketing that has emerged in recent times. The primary reasons for social media’s phenomenal growth and penetration are dynamism, relevancy and measurability. Digital is at the core of marketing at Infosys. We, the corporate digital marketing group at Infosys, have imbibed social media as it is our constant endeavor to stay on top of things. At Infosys, as in any other large corporation, there are teams which are looking for strategic and niche marketing activities. Thus, there are varied requirements with different goals. We understand the requirements and are looking at increasing the overall social impact of marketing activities digitally, especially in the social space. We want to align the strategy, goals and implementation plans for various requirements across the organization and map that against industry benchmarks and create a dynamic road map to achieve goals in social interactivity, receptivity and likeability.
MBA	Benchmarking	24	Benchmarking talent management across top IT companies in Hyderabad Industry: Retail, CPG, Logistics and Life Sciences Location: HYDERABAD ( India ) The project is to catalog best practices in talent management in the IT industry and create a road map for adopting the same. Another area of focus of the project is to delineate the talent management practice from the HR Practice, and define ways and means of enhanced collaboration between these two functions.
MBA	Communication	12	Organizational leadership communication. Industry: Human Resources and Development Location: BANGALORE ( India ) Leadership communication
MBA	Analysis	24	Customer experience products Industry: Energy, Utility, Communication and Services Location: BANGALORE ( India ) Analyzing the customer experience trends in defined industry domains, building business case for implementing customer experience, defining the next-generation of customer experience product requirements.
Bachelors,Masters	Implementation	12	Automatic image quality measurement Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE ( India ) Determining image quality of digital images automatically is useful for image processing applications. Deformations in the image due to motion blur, defocus, color quality and illumination during image acquisition will be assessed in quality measurement. In this project, we will be working on an open-source mobile platform (Android) that provides interface for image acquisition from cameras available in handheld devices. During internship the applicant is expected to: 1. Implement selected methods for image quality measurement on OpenCV 2. Extend / customize the methods for indoor images. 3. Implement the OpenCV source as a service on Android. Duration for the internship is between 2–3 months. We will also consider applicants who are interested to stay longer. Several applications in content moderation, automatic / user-assisted quality checks in videos and well as policy-based quality measurements can also be looked at based on interest and time.
Bachelors,Masters	Web 2.0	12	Web 2.0 security aider Industry: Infosys Labs Location: HYDERABAD ( India ) With the Web2.0 revolution, the World Wide Web has evolved from a set of hyperlinked static pages to a dynamic computational platform. The ever-increasing innovative features and technologies on the Web have also increased the surface area of attacks, which are used by attackers for malicious purposes. Sources of third-party JavaScripts such as advertisements on Web pages, social plug-ins, and widgets, and HTML elements like images, forms, and iframes freely make HTTP requests from the source page. Similarly, cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks are possible mainly due to entry of foreign scripts into a Web page. To stop these types of attacks, a new security paradigm called ‘Declarative Security Policies’ have evolved, which simplify configuration of security parameters via HTTP headers. The goal of this project is to analyze a Web application with respect to Declarative Security and auto-suggest best practices to be followed.
Bachelors,Masters	Web security	12	Creating a deliberately vulnerable Web application playground for learning Web security Industry: Infosys Labs Location: HYDERABAD ( India ) Web applications often end up being victims of attacks due to the presence of security weaknesses (vulnerabilities) in their code. Over the years, several independent security experts and organizations have highlighted security risks faced by Web applications in the form of several surveys and analyses, out of which the OWASP Top Ten project is the most popular one in security circles. OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) is a non-profit open community whose focus is to improve security of software, specifically Web applications. The Top Ten project started by OWASP presents the ten most critical Web application security risks. Its main aim is to educate IT professionals about the consequences of Web application security weaknesses. To demonstrate these top security risks, OWASP started a project called âebGoatâ€, which is a deliberately vulnerable Web application aimed as a learning resource. Though there are several resources on the Web around this area, they have their own boundaries. For example, some of them demonstrate basic attack vectors; some of them are in-depth cheat sheets which may not work in modern browsers / frameworks, etc. The goal of this InStep project is to understand in detail the OWASP Top 10 security risks and create a deliberately vulnerable Web application with these risks in the latest ASP.NET version. It would initially cover breadth (the core Web application setup having all top 10 vulnerabilities with one example each) and would later go into depth (creating an exhaustive cheat sheet for each category). Such an environment will help beginners understand the basics of Web security, advanced practitioners in tightening their precautionary measures / following best practices, and researchers in experimenting with the attack vectors and defense mechanisms.
Bachelors,Masters	Game design	12	Game design for security-awareness Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE ( India ) ‘Gamification’ finds a wide role in enterprises. One of the roles of this is to make employees learn a concept and make them aware of some mechanics in a friendly and interactive way which they love. This process is often done in a manner, which involves them getting some points, prizes, badges, etc., which are shared on the social networking site. The aim of this project is to make the employees learn and understand about some of the Information Security policies of the company by mimicking a real-life play. The project involves designing a game, which will be played by an individual employee. Employee will be depicted as a virtual avatar that performs a few of the daily routines like communicating through email, writing blogs, answering some questions on Q&A sites like stack overflow. The entire aim of the game is to make employee learn and understand information security tips without going through the regular mode of multiple objective questions. The questions will be actually converted into an act. And the right act by the avatar will be equivalent of answering right answer.
Bachelors	Framework	12	Framework to mMigrate JDKX (4,5,6,7) project to JDK8 Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE ( India ) Java platform has lost its agility in past. The language was very stable, but it was not able to attract much attention for quite a few years. Most of the enterprises have their source code written and running stable on JDK (4, 5) platforms. The recent changes in the JDK have brought too many rich features to ignore the language changes. The exercise of converting a pre-JDK7 code into the latest version is both time-consuming and costly. But these changes also bring rich features, which are desirable by both programmers and architects. This project involves programmatically identifying the blocks of code, which can be refactored to use the new constructs of the Java programming language and also utilize the new implementation provided by the latest JRE. The project involves writing a module, which will identify the code sections and automate some part of the code conversion. The project involves writing Eclipse / Netbeans plug-ins to identify the potential code snippet and automate some of the conversion. This also involves studying the impact and the performance of such changes on overall product and services.
MBA	Market research	24	In the current challenging business environment how can value design enhance customer acquisition? Industry: Manufacturing Location: HYDERABAD ( India ) In today's complex business environment, Infosys as an organization has been constantly evolving to win new business by delivering value-added work to our clients. While we look at external factors, the objective of this project is to look internally, understand the challenges, compare with some of our competitors and present solutions specific to MFG unit. The expected value-add would be an independent assessment and recommendations without being clouded by internal views. The expected deliverables are 1) Understand the challenges in the current environment 2) Conduct external research on competitors 3) Baseline the internal data vs. competitors 4) Conduct internal discussions with key stakeholders 5) Identify gaps relative to competitors 6) Present solutions that can be implemented and 7) Execute a pilot using the solutions for 1 or 2 pursuits. At this point, we do not foresee any risks associated with the project. Resources needed would be basic desktop, access to research databases and more importantly initiative from the intern to conduct external research for getting detailed competitive information.
Bachelors,Masters,Ph.D	Automation	12	Automated identification of risky changes. Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE ( India ) In this era of really large software running into millions of lines of code, it is generally not possible to thoroughly test the software before release. So a tool that can identify bug-inducing changes will help developers catch potential errors early and prevent them from being reported from the field. This will not only enhance the quality of the software, but will also reduce the downstream cost of maintenance. The goal of the project is to develop algorithms to automatically identify bug-inducing changes and build a prototype proof of concept tool for the same. This is a research project and the deliverable expected is a proof of concept implementation.
Bachelors,Masters	Java	15	System to visualize WordNet and RDF / OWL ontologies Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE ( India ),PUNE ( India ) Lexical and semantic resources have a role to play in information retrieval and integration. However, these resources are described in complex languages and formats that present an obstacle for human users to see and make sense of all this information. We want to build a graphical visualization for WordNet and RDF / OWL ontologies. It will rely of graph based layout and rendering engines to help uses visualize the relations between words or concepts. We plan to use JavaScript-based libraries and HTML5 and CSS3 to build this system.
Bachelors,Masters	Automation	12	Build and deployment automation Industry: CORPADM Location: BANGALORE ( India ) Defining a framework to cover the build-to-deployment processes in application development. The framework should identify patterns for the whole process to centralize and automate the entire build and deployment process.
MBA	Mobility	08	Project – Enterprise mobility landscape in energy, utilities and communication services Industry: Mobility Location: BANGALORE ( India ) Project: Enterprise mobility landscape with respect to the energy, utilities, and communication services clients. We are seeing the growth of mobility as a key strategy for any enterprise worldwide. While the focus and adoption have been varied in different sectors, it has become a must-have in the road map driven by B2C, B2E and B2B applications. This project is about evaluating enterprises in the energy, utility and communication services sector, what technology and business trends are these enterprises seeing in the next 3–5 years, and how mobility is aligned to their strategy.
Bachelors,Masters	Analysis	06	To create a process / tools for efficient tracking of efforts logged and reconciled with various info Industry: Finacle Location: BANGALORE ( India ) Creating processes / tools for efficient tracking of efforts logged for tasks / activities at all granularity levels in a project. This would involve interfacing with many project information management systems and producing detailed reports and timely alerts to project stakeholders.
Masters,Ph.D	Learning and development	12	Challenge-based instruction in professional software engineering education Industry: Education & Research Location: MYSORE ( India ) This project specifically addresses the learning requirements of professionals in software engineering domain. A challenge-based approach to designing instruction has been demonstrated as an effective technique in technical education. Leveraging this technique, the intern is expected to develop curriculum and instructional materials in the software engineering domain. This project will contribute in providing research-based educational materials to develop software engineering professionals. The intern will get an opportunity to contribute towards actual business requirements and get an exposure to corporate education. The deliverables will be instructional modules based on the challenge-based approach. A white paper, internal report, and / or a conference paper are also expected based on this internship project.
MBA	Learning and Development	10	1. Looking at the m-commerce landscape in both emerging economies and developed nations Industry: Business Platforms Location: BANGALORE ( India ) Project charter. Project goals: Mobile wallet industry is still nascent in India and other developing countries. Though the concept has taken off in developed countries, the penetration is still very less as compared to mobile reach. In view of dynamic guidelines issued by regulator (RBI in India) and emerging market conditions, there is a need for constant market research and keep a tab on what is going in the industry. If we take the specific example of India, where consumer is highly price sensitive, offering solutions at the right price point is critical. Hence, we need support to do market study and product comparisons. Scope definition: Since the goal is broad, this can be divided into these three subprojects. 1. Looking at the m-commerce landscape in both emerging economies and developed nations. A study to highlight telecom company-led business models and may include other business models (if prevalent). The study may include following line of thought: 1. Products and services offered 2. Growth drivers 3. Challenges faced 4. Target segment 5. Unique propositions 6. Success stories: Similar studies around banks and financial institution-centric business models (for us to expand outside existing business) 2. M-commerce market potential analysis for Indian territory – a study to include business potential assessment from both telecom companies and banks / FI perspective. A study of RBI – a view point in order to assess both opportunities and challenges that we can foresee in innovative business models for Indian consumers. 5. A study of our (Infosys) competitors; in terms of offerings from other IT companies. Study to include other m-commerce platform / product owners and analysis around following lines: a. Feature comparisons b. Engagement models c. Value proposition.
Bachelors,Masters,MBA,Ph.D	Online applications	12	Examining learning effectiveness in online learning Industry: Education & Research Location: MYSORE ( India ) Online learning or virtual learning or e-learning is getting a lot of attention in academics as well as corporate education. This project specifically examines the learning effectiveness of online learning in the context of corporate education. The intern is expected to conduct a thorough literature study on the topic, and highlight the current trends. The intern will aid in data collection, and analyze existing data to examine the learning effectiveness. The intern will get an opportunity to examine the recent trends in online learning, and contribute towards actual business requirements. The deliverables will be in the form of an internal report, white paper, and / or a conference paper that captures the best practices, draws conclusions from the analysis, and recommends areas for improvements. A presentation to stakeholders is also expected.
Masters,MBA,Ph.D	Technology & development	06	Software life cycle, software licensing and cloud virtualization of software business Industry: Manufacturing Location: HYDERABAD ( India ) Infosys is working with various customers who sell software and have various tools and business processes to manage the software life cycle, licensing and virtualization over cloud. This project involves studying, researching industry trends and coming up with recommendations or a playbook, which can be leveraged to help Infosys customers reduce their cost, increase customer satisfaction and experience. Deliverable will include a research report covering what software leaders are doing today and what industry is moving towards. Software life cycle includes quote, ordering, order fulfillment, software delivery (electronic and physical), software licensing, registration, post-sales support, upgrades, patches, upgrades, and upselling and cross-selling opportunities. This research report will address the problem statements of various customers.
Bachelors,Masters	Development Videos and Images	12	Text Detection from images and videos Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE ( India ) Several enterprise applications use images / videos for handling business processes and require content sharing with third-parties. This might require filtering out / masking sensitive or inappropriate text content embedded in images and videos. In this project, we will be working on automatic detection of graphical text from images and videos. During internship the applicant is expected to: 1. Implement and evaluate selected methods for automatic detection of graphical text from images and videos 2. Identify and develop methods to address the challenges for the specific project requirements. 3. Develop schemes for masking / in painting the text regions in images / videos.
Bachelors,Masters	Development videos and images	12	Detection and tracking of objects in indoor videos Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE ( India ) We are developing a low cost, efficient and robust solution for tracking predefined objects in indoor videos. There are several challenges in this work related to video acquisition like non-uniform illumination, motion blur and projective transformation. In this project, we will be working on processing images to address some of these issues in object detection and tracking from images and videos. During internship the applicant is expected to: 1. Develop a scheme to automatically identify geometrical constraints for the object detection task (given camera, object, scene parameters and algorithms). 2. Develop and implement selected methods for illumination correction while maintaining color integrity of the image. 3. Develop and implement selected methods for detection of motion blur from images.
Masters,Ph.D	Research and development	14	Algorithms for maximizing coaching stock utilization in Indian Railways Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE ( India ) Indian Railways is one of the world’s largest railway networks, carrying over 21 million passengers and 2.54 million tons of freight daily. The industry is growing every year with increasing amounts of passengers and services. Coaching stock utilization is an integral part of planning and operation of train services. The train services that are to be run are to be assigned to physical rakes (a standardized set of cars, including locomotive coaches in their composition) in an optimal way. Optimal utilization of rakes will in turn have a significant impact on the overall costs and the reliability of services. The objective of this internship is to minimize the total number of rakes used for coaching train services, since that is the biggest cost in the operations. The internship will deliver a solution which generates rake cycles, describing the sequence of services to be done by each rake. Further, we need to analyze and report the performance with % of run time as a criterion.
Masters	Analytics	08	Theory of constraints and its application in IT projects Industry: Quality Location: HYDERABAD ( India ) Theory of Constraints is a management methodology that helps organizations achieve their goals. This project aims at studying the technique and identifying areas where it can be applied in IT projects to achieve the objectives set for the project.
Bachelors,Masters,Ph.D	Market research	16	Development of optimization engine Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE ( India ) Many business problems are solved using statistical techniques, optimization algorithms, and simulation models in practice. The main objective of this project is to develop an optimization tool to solve different types of mathematical programming problems. As part of this project, the interns will conduct a survey about the commercially available optimization solvers and the free open-source available. Then effort will be made to develop the interface to extract data from the data source, automate the process of generating mathematical formulation based on the type of problem, and present the results in graph, charts, and so on. Also enable users of the optimization tool to carry out “what-if” analysis.
MBA	Analysis	12	Sales effectiveness enhancement Industry: Financial Services and Insurance Location: BANGALORE ( India ) Scope: a) Analyze win-loss trends in certain key service lines / geographies and prepare an action plan to improve win ratios b) Strategize and implement a process to collect, analyze and action on key stakeholder feedback in the bid management process for large deals c) Establish a Sales Performance Dashboard – evaluate and recommend approach to streamline sales data collection, analysis and reporting to senior management. This includes determining key metrics, standardizing the measurement and automating data collation / reporting. The initiative lead will have an opportunity to understand the prospect-to-conversion life cycle, interact closely with all stakeholders, and present findings to the senior management.
MBA	Analysis	12	Sales enablement initiative Industry: Financial Services and Insurance Location: BANGALORE ( India ) a) Creation of a sales playbook for key must-have prospects. This involves identifying client investment areas / business strategies, mapping the same to organization product / service offerings and creating targeted sales pitches for proactive selling opportunities. b) Rolling out a comprehensive knowledge management platform by analyzing bid management and sales team requirements. This will include collaterals, collaborative tools and ready reckoners for various processes in the sales cycle. The initiative lead will have an opportunity to understand the end to end prospecting cycle, interact with and consult for key stakeholders in the sales and sales support teams, and create artifacts for sales enablement that can be used across multiple large deals.
Masters	Research and development	12	Statistical arbitrage at longer time scale Industry: Financial Services and Insurance Location: BANGALORE ( India ) This project attempts to combine a few of the parameters of company performance and traditional time series indicators into a method that can lead to arbitrage over longer time periods. The project will involve developing an approach for analysis of historical equity, or derivative price and company performance data to detect relative price differentials or arbitrage opportunities. The efficiency of this approach has to be substantiated in a whitepaper, with examples.
Bachelors,Masters	Finance	10	User interface concept design – financial life view Industry: Financial Services and Insurance Location: BANGALORE ( India ) Financial portfolios of individuals are a snapshot of a point in time, and often analysis can be made historically. It might be useful to project the portfolio over a period of time (e.g., average lifetime of an individual) and show at a glance how it performs in the face of general real-life events and requirements. This can help an individual get a futuristic insight into non-intuitive aspects of personal finance and portfolio management over a lifetime. An interface that is attractive, engaging and doesn’t lose essence, when viewed at different scales, is required. It should be optimized for tablets and configurable for different user demographics. Deliverables: Visual design elements and UX design specifications.
Masters	Analytics	10	R package for XBRL Analytics Industry: Financial Services and Insurance Location: BANGALORE ( India ) XBRL is an emerging standard for financial regulatory reporting. Many companies publish this data and many regulators are considering making filings in XBRL format mandatory. Since XBRL is a structured (XML) format, it is easy to mine it and develop analytics for consumption by investment professionals. R is a programming environment suitable for developing such analytics and provides strong graphing and plotting capabilities. This project involves developing an R package for analyzing and comparing company data derived from XBRL sources. This does not include parsing of XBRL, but using the extracted XBRL data values for investment analysis. The comparisons would need to be shortlisted and R functions developed accordingly. These functions should be such that they can be availed of by business analysts who have little or no background in statistics. Deliverables: R package.
Bachelors	Web services	10	XBRL parsing Web services Industry: Financial Services and Insurance Location: BANGALORE ( India ) XBRL is an emerging standard for financial regulatory reporting. Many companies publish this data, and many regulators are considering making filings in XBRL format mandatory. Since XBRL is a structured (XML) format, it is easy to mine it and develop analytics for consumption by investment professionals. This project involves developing a set of Web services for downloading and parsing XBRL documents from public sources on a user request (simple UI) and storing the parsed information in a database (RDBMS or NoSQL). An open source Java library for XBRL parsing is available. The XBRL information stored in the database can also be exposed via Web services / APIs if time permits. Deliverables: A set of Java Web services that download and parse XBRL documents.
Bachelors,Masters	Market research	10	Market research: In-store finance offers system Industry: Financial Services and Insurance Location: BANGALORE ( India ) In-store finance offers can be delivered by a close coordination between financial and retail institutions. The project is to investigate to what extents these relationships exist today in particular market segments. Will a solution to deliver in-store offers to potential buyers in real time be well-accepted by customers, retailers and finance companies? This is the key subject of this market research. What should be the pricing and revenue model for such a solution / service? And what would be the key selling points (buyer considerations)? These are other questions that can be investigated in the project. Primary and secondary research methods could be applied. Deliverables: A comprehensive market research report.
MBA	Developing life cycle	24	Life cycle cost analysis of composite structures Industry: Engineering Location: BANGALORE ( India ) Composites are widely used in aerospace industry. However, its use is limited in other industries. One of the major drivers that dictate the future of composites is cost. The cost of composites components needs to be computed holistically. This project aims at developing life cycle cost models for composite components.
Masters,Ph.D	Learning and development	24	Case study: Extraction of knowledge from requirement documents using ontology extraction tools. Industry: Infosys Labs Location: HYDERABAD ( India ) Significant time is spent by practitioners to analyze use-cases written in natural language (NL). Common errors like misinterpretation and oversight can have costly consequences later during system development. A semi-automatic approach based on NL processing can reduce the time spent on requirement analysis and bootstrap design activity. Ontology is a formal representation of knowledge in a domain and consists of entities and their relationships. In this case study, we evaluate different ontology extraction tools, like ontogeny and texttoonto, on use cases found in theory and practice.
Bachelors,Masters,Ph.D	Application development	24	Checking ambiguities in requirements using modeling tool – Alloy Industry: Infosys Labs Location: HYDERABAD ( India ) Developing a semi-automatic methodology to extract domain concepts and relations from requirements text, and modeling them using ALLOY to check for ambiguities in the text.
Bachelors,Masters	Finance	10	ROI of engaging customers through finance theme games Industry: Financial Services and Insurance Location: BANGALORE ( India ) Finance is generally an obscure topic for an average citizen. Awareness and engagement of financial products, services and systems can be increased by social games that are modeled around finance themes. This project investigates the ROI of adopting such a game as a digital marketing method. How the game can be used to disseminate information about products and offers, engage existing customers and find new prospects and even new revenue streams has to be illustrated in an ROI study. Deliverables: Whitepaper / Business case.
Masters	Analytics	10	R analytics with OpenGamma Industry: Financial Services and Insurance Location: BANGALORE ( India ) OpenGamma is a new open-source platform to provide financial risk and portfolio analytics. It is possible to integrate it with an R analytics environment and share data and results back and forth. This project to demonstrate how R can be leveraged through OpenGamma platform in a Web app by implementing a simple financial planning use case. Deliverables: Working prototype of a financial planning Web application / use case implemented on OpenGamma.
Masters	Analytics	10	Big data R analytics evaluation Industry: Financial Services and Insurance Location: BANGALORE ( India ) R is a powerful and fast analytics environment. However, it is oriented for data processing on single nodes. If R jobs can be distributed across a cluster (Hadoop environment in this case), very large (tb scale) data sets can potentially be analyzed. This project attempts to evaluate hands-on, one such solution being offered by Revolution Analytics. The evaluation will be done on a large financial data set. Deliverables: Working prototype of a demo use case.
Bachelors,Masters	Visual design	10	Visualizing next-generation point-of-sale software system Industry: Financial Services and Insurance Location: BANGALORE ( India ) The project involves visualization and user experience design of next-gen Internet-enabled point of sale system. It should be able to provide Internet-based transaction, billing and instant rewards. A storyboard also has to be created as part of the project. Deliverables: Visual design elements and UX design specifications.
Bachelors,Masters	Visual design	10	Visualizing smart banking, home banking concept Industry: Financial Services and Insurance Location: BANGALORE ( India ) Internet banking and mobile banking is becoming commonplace. With adoption of smart TVs and living room multimedia devices, a family can interact with their bankers from home, remotely without compromising richness or security. This project attempts to visualize such a user experience involving touch, motion, speech, image, gesture and context-sensitive applications – demonstrating integrated use of technology available even as of today. How can users not only perform banking actions but also seamlessly integrate these into their lifestyles. A storyboard also has to be created as part of the project. Deliverables: Visual design elements and UX design specifications.
MBA	Innovations	12	Innovation-led IT transformations in corporate banking Industry: Finacle Location: BANGALORE ( India ) Project objective: Study corporate banking business and technology trends, competition landscape and provide actionable recommendations on defining innovation themes, and frame an execution blueprint for an IT innovation partner in the corporate banking space. Scope: The study should focus on business process, automation needs, technology trends (e.g., hosted offerings, cloud), changing regulatory framework and other market dynamics, like competition landscape, to provide actionable recommendations on possible innovation themes that an IT innovation partner can adopt to help clients realize process efficiencies, productivity gains and competitive edge in the corporate banking space. Detailing how different systems in the market support the various aspects of corporate banking would be a value-add and coverage of Islamic corporate banking aspects would be desirable. Expectations: Conduct in-depth study on corporate banking as detailed in the scope, and provide actionable inputs on etching out a blueprint for an IT innovation partner. Outcome of the project: The authors of the study should present the results of their analysis with complete data and documentation; conclude on the strategic way forward on adopting and executing innovation themes. Suitable profile: Candidate should have good understanding of corporate banking, products, practices and IT strategies. Exposure to corporate banking practices and IT strategies in Europe or Northern America would be an added advantage. Inclination towards market research, process definition and strategic thinking is needed.
Bachelors,Masters	Market research	10	Business case: IT solutions for financial services in BoP markets Industry: Financial Services and Insurance Location: BANGALORE ( India ) Bottom-of-pyramid markets have unique challenges and non-linear revenue potential. Innovative and profitable financial services can be tailored for these markets when powered by technology. This project attempts to study the needs of financial services operators foraying into these markets and understand the play for IT-enabled services and solutions. A business case, high level market requirements and critical success factors for a couple of such solutions have to be established as a part of this project. Examples could be financial supply chain management, early warning of defaults, credit modeling and tracking, market measurement, analytical insights, etc. Deliverables: business case, market requirements.
Bachelors,Masters	Market research	10	Group / crowd finance use cases Industry: Financial Services and Insurance Location: BANGALORE ( India ) Special interest ad hoc groups have been driving a lot of unique social phenomena. Examples are flash mobs, protest campaigns, crowdsourcing of computing resources, user reviews, and group deals. The power of groups can probably be harnessed for financial services, e.g., peer-to-peer lending, flash credits, online microfinance, community finance, fundraisers. This project seeks to establish a business case and business model for 2–3 such use cases where financial services and products have a lever in groups, networks and crowds. How economics of scale can be converted to profitable business models using ad hoc groups of users or buyers is the question this project seeks to evaluate quantitatively. Deliverables: business case, market requirements.
Bachelors,Masters	social Media	10	Business case: Stock market sentiment analysis using social media Industry: Financial Services and Insurance Location: BANGALORE ( India ) The project provides an opportunity to leverage social media trends for stocks to arrive at a sentiment. In today’s world, a lot of discussions, analysis and content is shared on social media (Twitter, Facebook, chat rooms, etc.) on all aspects of life. Stock trading and company information – news is abuzz in these circles. The project aims at determining popular sentiment associated with a stock. A sentiment score (both +ve and –ve) is arrived and displayed, along with a continuous feed of news / chat snippets from Twitter / other social media channels. Evaluate using Infosys IP around natural language processing, semantic extraction, etc. Deliverables: business case.
Bachelors,Masters,MBA,Ph.D	Training and development	16	Next-generation educational technology Industry: Education & Research Location: MYSORE ( India ) This project explores the use of next-generation educational technology such as tabletop surface computing for training and development of software professionals. The intern will be expected to design use cases for utilizing the tabletop surface computing platform for software engineering education. This will be followed by pilot testing the use cases and determining their impact. The intern will gain exposure to next-generation educational technology and contribute to understanding the potential of such technology for training and development of industry professionals. The deliverables will be in the form of an internal report, white paper, and / or a conference paper that explores the potential of next-generation educational technology for training and development in the software engineering domain. A presentation to stakeholders is also expected.
Masters,Ph.D	Training and development	12	Developing assessments for learning Industry: Education & Research Location: MYSORE ( India ) This project involves developing assessments for learning in the software engineering domain in the industry. It requires the intern to utilize principles of learning to develop formative and summative assessments. The intern will get an opportunity to develop assessment instruments in the context of various modes of training and development in the industry and contribute towards real business goals. The key deliverables will be assessment question banks. A white paper, internal report, and / or a conference paper are also expected based on this internship project.
Bachelors,Masters,MBA	Framework	16	A unified audit framework Industry: Quality Location: HYDERABAD ( India ) This project requires a study of Infosys processes and standards for which Infosys is getting audited. Making a comprehensive framework by which one can address all standards, which streamlines the audit process and coverage. Critical deliverable will be a framework with a streamlined process without much effort and less dependency on delivery interaction.
Bachelors,Masters,MBA	Framework	16	A framework for code quality improvement Industry: Quality Location: HYDERABAD ( India ) A framework for code quality improvement: This project primarily aimed at improving code quality through various methods: maintainability, reliability, portability, etc. After studying the current pattern, the project outcome should suggest a framework by which one should improve the code quality. It will bring high productivity, customer satisfaction, etc.
Bachelors,Masters,MBA	Software development	16	Size calculation and reporting validation in software development and impact, overall Industry: Quality Location: HYDERABAD ( India ) This project aims to improve overall size based estimation and reporting, and impact on various other parameters to enhance the system. Because the system depends on size too much. By this all other metrics can be streamlined.
Bachelors,Masters,MBA	Analysis	16	Business value addition to client without increasing cost Industry: Quality Location: HYDERABAD ( India ) This project is based on pattern of various data and study based on internal Infosys system. What can delight the customer without increasing cost? It requires huge data analysis and inference to provide recommendations.
Bachelors,Masters,MBA	Software development	16	Identifying unique productivity improvement levels in software development Industry: Quality Location: HYDERABAD ( India ) Identifying unique productivity improvement levels in software development: This project aims to improve productivity by studying current software development processes. What are additional levers needed to improve the productivity, which ultimately lead to higher margins and customer satisfaction. Project requires good understanding of at least one programming language and good statistical knowledge for doing data analysis, providing us various ways to control and improve, including regression, correlation and other techniques.
MBA	Research and development	12	Build consulting offering on HR harmonization Industry: Manufacturing Location: HYDERABAD ( India ) The HR harmonization goal is to simplify and standardize policies across geos to reduce implementation and operation costs by streamlining the supporting technology and processes and, in the long run, enable HR to deliver consistent, high-quality processes and quality standards to employees. The intern will research and assess manufacturing client needs in this area, and propose a service offering that will help Infosys meet the need effectively. Key deliverables: an introductory service offering presentation for clients and white paper (both deliverables will be used for business development.). Execution toolkit, a reference inventory of HR policies that can be included in scope. HR policy harmonization guiding principles (whether policies will be harmonized across business units / countries and the reasons by which a policy exception will be allowed). Framework to analyze existing policy data, develop recommendations for harmonization, and templates to present findings for approval. Proposed timeline with key milestones. Metrics to determine the value of HR harmonization (processing time / error, risk exposure, etc.)
Masters,MBA	Co-creation and innovation	12	Identify areas of opportunities to co-create and co-innovate with our Cloud Partners Industry: Manufacturing Location: HYDERABAD ( India ) Cloud implementations are turnkey engagements with very short life cycles. In order to add value to our customers, Infosys would provide services that help us generate new revenue streams and also help our partners jointly bring new solutions / offerings to their customers. Our cloud partners are Success Factors / SAP, Taleo / Oracle, Kronos. Key deliverables: Identify three areas of co-innovation with cloud partners (e.g., integration middleware platform that supports rapid deployment of hybrid solutions). Identify three areas of co-development with cloud partners (e.g., custom mobile applications to address specific industry needs). For each of the identified areas for co-innovation, we would need: market opportunity – solution composition – go-to-market plan.
MBA	Market strategy	20	Accelerating growth Industry: Financial Services and Insurance Location: MYSORE ( India ) The project aims at enhancing the go-to-market strategy, creating the necessary content and enabling the sales team on the strategy. The project will deliver a sustainable framework to create and maintain the go-to-market strategy continuously aligned to the changing needs of the market.
MBA	Market analysis	06	Market Analysis for Package testing Industry: Financial Services and Insurance Location: HYDERABAD ( India ) Market analysis for package testing: Understand market trends in the package testing space. Define size and skill requirements. Recommendations on capability building.
MBA	Digital world	04	Implications of device proliferation on content strategies Industry: Energy, Utility, Communication and Services Location: PUNE ( India ) The digital world is quickly fragmenting. From an environment where content and platform providers were developing content for the PC, we are currently in a multi-device world where the dominant devices are the PC, mobile, tablet and phablet. However, the real challenge is the embedding of content conversion tools in electronic devices. The TV has morphed into a smart TV and is able to display multi-content formats. The car navigation system is becoming an interaction content consumption device and so is the refrigerator, among others. The challenge for content publishers is to manage content display across these formats and figure out a way to ensure the most relevant content is served to the user on the relevant platform. This project is critical from a business perspective simply because it will help create a whole new methodology to process, store and display content. The role of the intern will be essentially to create a white paper that will a) Help identify the emerging devices across publishers who need to deploy content. b) Research and define how content consumption varies across existing and popular platforms like the PC, mobile and tablet c) Interact with the DMs, PMs and TLs within the ECS environment to help define the broad parameters that will be required to create a multi-environment CMS.
MBA	Market study	08	How publishers are using big data to attract and retain customers Industry: Energy, Utility, Communication and Services Location: PUNE ( India ) Publishing companies are increasingly turning to data analysis and mining for all aspects of their operations. From attracting and retaining customers to their digital properties, creating targeted marketing campaigns and building special products around customer usage patterns. The aim of this project is to capture best practices on big data usage in the publishing space. The objective is to create a case-study-based white paper that will highlight how big data is being used. The areas the white paper will touch on will include a) Digital properties: attracting and retaining users on digital properties. Using big data to ensure more consumption of different content formats. b) Big data use in marketing and product development c) Big data use in circulation and distribution management.
MBA	Digital environment	08	Audience measurement and campaign management in a digital environment Industry: Energy, Utility, Communication and Services Location: PUNE ( India ) Audience measurement and campaign management are becoming central to measure the success of a marketing / ad campaign, more so in a digital environment as it throws up voluminous amounts of usage data. The idea of this white paper is to look at the entire universe of audience measurement and campaign management from a product and service perspective. Identify the best practices in the industry, research on the products available and how some of the largest corporations in the world effectively manage billions of dollars of advertising revenues. The idea is to produce a white paper that looks at the current state-of-the-art techniques in audience measurement and campaign measurement, highlight some case studies and recommend the way forward to efficiently deploy ad budgets.
Masters	Product Benchmarking	10	Mobile Payments - Product benchmarking Industry: Business Platform Location: PUNE ( India ) Competitive assessment A. Objective: Evaluate Infosys mCommerce offering (Mobile Wallet) vis-à-vis the leading competitors and provide short-term (6 months) and long-term (> 1 year) recommendations to help Infosys stay ahead of competition B. Scope of engagement: Identify strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities of each competitor offering top competitive issues or pressure points in the segment. Provide analysis of the competitors in areas like product features, number of clients, focus areas, strategy, key partnerships, target geographies, pricing model, revenue, functional landscape, architecture, and usability. Infosys advantage and disadvantage in comparison with competitors. Evaluate the Infosys product road map and provide recommendation to make it among the best in industry as per the dimensions defined in point 1. Identify significant and sustainable market opportunities and go-to-market strategy for Infosys. Market- / region-specific use cases and strong competitors’ ability to provide them in those specific regions, e.g., use case with respect to the Indian market is a peer-to-peer funds transfer for the customers on the platform, utility bill payments.
Bachelors,Masters	iMortgage Solution	12	iMortgage Solution Industry: Financial Services and insurance Location: BANGALORE ( India ) Mortgage prequalification online. The solution intends to cut down the effort that brokers / bankers need to put up with the customer to define her / his eligibility and choose the best deal as per her / his income. This would also reduce the paperwork involved now in the banks. Making e-mortgage automated and seamless across channels too.
Bachelors,Masters,Ph.D	Testing of Business Process	24	Business process testing Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE ( India ) End-to-end business processes are implemented and realized as in one or more than one software systems such as packaged applications, business process management systems (BPMS) or custom applications. The business processes evolve due to change in business requirements, at times to comply with changes brought in by legal and compliance regulations. While it is complex and time-consuming to change the custom applications, BPMS provides better support for changes in business process. Packaged applications provide an option for configuring and customizing the process to meet organization needs. As the process evolves, systems are changed and need to be tested again to verify these changes. Typically on an average, 65% of the reported bugs reported on end-to-end business applications in industry are attributed to erroneous implementations of business processes; hence the challenge of testing business process. We intend to model the business requirements using UML activity diagrams and metadata data models, structure these models and requirements, and identify the changes made to these models automatically and suggest regression test suite.
Bachelors,Masters,MBA	Risk and Compliance Market space	08	Evaluation of the risk and compliance market space in sustainability reporting. Industry: Sustainability Location: PUNE ( India ) Infosys Sustainability team is looking for an intern with experience in sustainability risk and compliance to evaluate and define the reporting market space. The efforts of the intern are expected to provide inputs on what key compliance capabilities should be built into the product.
Bachelors	Testing	08	Big data testing service offering Industry: Financial Services and Insurance Location: BANGALORE ( India ) The amount of digital data in our world has been exponentially growing in last few years. Big data is the next frontier in innovation, competition and profit for companies. As per Wikibon five-year forecast for the big data market, big data market is on the verge of a rapid growth that will see it top the $50 billion mark worldwide within the next five years. As per the Wikibon report, 2011, big data services revenue accounts to 44% ($2.29B) of the total big data revenue ($5.2 billion). Considering the same growth rate for services, total big data services 2017 is forecast at $23.5 billion. If we consider 30% of the services revenue to be testing services, 2017 forecast for testing will be ($7.05 billion). Even if we tap 1% of this revenue, we will be able to generate $70 million. As of now, there are no vendors who are providing end-to-end big data testing services. Early entry into this service will help in gaining maximum market share. Infosys wants to create this service offering and provide differentiators. Big data deals with latest technologies and requires specialized skills to perform testing. Specialized skills required for testing are: NoSQL database knowledge, HIVE query building knowledge, any scripting language for file handling, performance testing of batch jobs, failover testing skills, ETL testing skills, Unix skills, and understanding of Hadoop architecture and its ecosystem.
MBA	Learning and Development	20	Project leasing Industry: Finacle Location: BANGALORE ( India ) Study leasing business and technology trends, and competition landscape, provide actionable inputs on defining innovative themes, and frame an execution plan for leasing software required in leasing space.
MBA	Learning and Development	16	Lease origination Industry: Finacle Location: BANGALORE ( India ) Study leasing business and technology trends, and competition landscape, provide actionable recommendations on defining lease origination software framework in the leasing origination space.
Bachelors,Masters	Market Study	10	Alternative group buying models Industry: Financial, Services and Insurance Location: BANGALORE ( India ) Daily deals market is quite saturated with a host of start-ups and large players trying to grab a share. Some players have even challenges with profitability. This project explores what additional avenues could be there to exploit group buying constructs. What alternative models could be created for financial enterprises to generate additional revenues from retailer-to-consumer? Deliverables: business case, market requirements (or alternatively a white paper).
Bachelors,Masters	Digital world	10	Digital whiteboard endpoints Industry: Financial, Services and Insurance Location: BANGALORE ( India ) This project involves prototyping a wireless digital pen that could be used on any writing surface, will capture the action of writing and transmit the actions to a nearby base station (to be simulated using a mobile / computing device). The pen could probably use an NFC / RFID / Bluetooth device for transmission, an accelerometer or other sensors for motion detection, etc. Deliverables: Working prototype.
Master's, MBA	Operations	12	Microfinancing – Understanding underwriting policies and operational processes from different geographies Industry: Finacle Location: BANGALORE (India) Microfinance is a form of retail lending which provides small ticket loans to that segment of society generally termed as the "productive poor". This segment usually comprises of the underprivileged / unskilled / semi-skilled population who do not have access to the formal banking system in the economy. Lending to this segment will require underwriting processes, which are significantly different from regular retail segments. The expectation from this project is to understand details on underwriting policies, origination processes and channel requirements from various geographies (India, South East Asia, Australia, Middle East, and Africa), and come up with a composite market research document. This will then enable us to translate the market needs into software requirements.
Bachelor's, master's, MBA	Analytics	06	Crowdsourcing strategy Industry: CORPADM Location: PUNE (India) Define crowdsource strategy: End-to-end process and implementation / support approach. The project involves defining a strategy framework, end-to-end process and overall implementation approach for crowdsourcing. It should be defined for existing Infosys products. The existing product is used for submitting the reusable components that can be reused by various teams. This product will be enabled for crowdsourcing in future and reusable artifacts can be submitted by various groups / channels (Crowd).
Bachelors, master's, PhD	Automation	10	Component-based development – Design, test automation Industry: CORPADM Location: PUNE (India) The project involves developing a design automation framework for component-based development. As of now, we have RA to Visual Design to code-generation process defined. This project would get inputs as requirements in standardized form and would convert those to design. Similarly, the project involves defining a framework for test automation for components adhering to a specific architecture and test tool integration. It would also specify the framework needed for application code testing.
Bachelor's	Analytics	08	Point of view and proof of concept for audience measurement using SCTE specs Industry: Energy, Utility, Communication and Services Location: PUNE (India) Project to come up with a point of view and Proof of Concept on audience measurement and ad insertion as per Cable Lab specs.
Bachelor's, Master's, PhD	Framework	08	Framework for reference implementation of components and assembly Industry: CORPADM Location: PUNE (India) There is an existing project involving component-based development framework. This project involves coming up with a framework / process / prototype for automatically generating reference implementation or demo code for the components as well as the application generated through assembly of the components. The reference implementation should be web-based such that it could be hosted on the site where all the components are hosted.
MBA	Mobile application	08	Emergence of open-source options for mobile application development and the role of mobile applications Industry: Infosys Labs Location: PUNE (India) We are a product group in Infosys Labs focusing on developing mobile application development platform. It will be important for us to know the direction in which the market is moving so that we can make appropriate enhancements to our product in future. Following would be the deliverables expected: 1) Overall split of the mobility market within MADP and open source 2) Geographical preference of customer to go for a particular option 3) Pros and cons of going for a particular option 4) The strategic adjustments that need to be made to MADP keeping in view the competition from open source.
Master's, MBA	Framework	12	Decision-making frameworks for sustainability reporting projects Industry: Sustainability Location: PUNE (India) Infosys sustainability team is looking for an intern with experience in the sustainability reporting area to research and evaluate various decision making models, methods and frameworks. The efforts of the intern are expected to provide inputs on the key decision-making criteria for a sustainability reporting solution.
Master's	Social metrics	08	Social metrics in the sustainability reporting space Industry: Sustainability Location: PUNE (India) Infosys sustainability team is looking for an intern with experience in the social sustainability space to identify and define social metrics in a sustainability reporting solution. The efforts of the intern are expected to provide inputs on what key social metrics can be built into the product and how (design).
Bachelor's, master's, MBA	Process development	10	Client Advocacy Reference tool Industry: Marketing Location: BANGALORE (India) Infosys believes that a strong client advocacy program will play a key role in supporting sales and marketing efforts to increase the loyalty of existing clients, win new clients and projects, and thus directly help increase revenues and profitability. The Client Advocacy team works primarily on client case studies, references and video testimonials with the different units of the organization. The aim of this project is to develop a proposal to capture case studies as a standard process across the company, so that we can quickly build an industry-leading knowledge database. The selected candidate will need to scope the issue, understand how effective the current process is, and then develop a solution. By the end of this assignment the team should have a clear, approved plan in place to build the new database, and senior level buy-in to implement the project across the organization.
MBA	Online applications	08	Improving online experience for communication clients – Quantitative study of online experience Industry: Energy, Utility, Communication and Services Location: PUNE (India) Create a business case for telecom companies to improve online experience by way of effective campaign management, self-service capabilities and quantify reduction of call center traffic.
Master's, MBA	Digital commerce	08	Content monetization for new-age publisher Create battle-card for IBM Digital Commerce Industry: Energy, Utility, Communication and Services Location:	PUNE (India) Identify and strategize content monetization avenues for digital publishers. “Solutionize” compliance mandates for the utilities industry.
Bachelor's	Testing	10	Identifying Six Sigma opportunities in retail testing projects Industry: Quality Location: HYDERABAD (India) Identifying Six Sigma opportunities in retail testing projects. Research needs to be done to understand the potential pain areas in testing projects, and then identify if any Six Sigma projects can be done to address those pain areas. This project will be limited only to the identification of Six Sigma opportunities and execution will be done later by project teams. The person working on this project must study some sample projects and then identify the pain areas, so these can be addressed, such that the client / Infosys will benefit.
Master's	Six Sigma	24	Build sustainable travel model for enterprise sustainability Industry: Sustainability Location: PUNE (India) Sustainable enterprises need to examine support and business enterprise functions. Travel and computing devices have a negative environmental impact. The project involves building an acceptable model that can be used for decision-making to make these functions sustainable. These model needs to be built for services companies e.g., IT services, insurance companies and banks.
Master's	Research	08	Research on impact of industry regulations on sustainability Industry: Sustainability Location: BANGALORE (India) Sustainability research on region-wise industrial regulatory and compliance impact on business.
Bachelor's	Research and Development	08	Sustainability research and innovation dashboard Industry: Sustainability Location: MYSORE (India) Sustainability Research and Innovation Dashboard
MBA	Corporate strategy	08	Cross-industry practices on implementing ERM in business units and interlinkages Industry: DRM Location: BANGALORE (India) Conduct external research on: A) How are leading practitioners of enterprise risk management, across industries, implementing risk management in their business units? B) How can enterprise risk management effectively influence strategy planning and execution? Process areas to be covered under the research: Risk identification, assessment, quantification of impact to business objectives, prioritization, monitoring, and governance. Expected outcome: A.1. Best Practices from practitioners in terms of process, scope, goals (accountability) of risk office. A.2. Tools and frameworks. A.3. Recommendations and roadmap for risk management in business units at Infosys. B.1. Best practices from practitioners. B.2. Tools and frameworks, if any. B.3. Recommendations on effective linkage of risk management to strategy planning and execution.
Master's, PhD	Security analysis model	12	Incremental content-based encryption Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE ( India ) Content-based encryption is a method for encrypting a file on a computer system based on the content of the file. The method involves setting an encryption policy, which relates at least one attribute of the file to the encryption mechanism. It also includes performing a search on the encrypted data based on content, not only keyword-based search. It may require research on incremental encryption and policy-based encryption to come up with a light weight solution that eases key update and content change in encrypted content. The scope of the internship covers understanding the concept of content-based encryption and incremental encryption, where the data is encrypted based on the content itself and the modification of key or content needs minimal effect. It covers study over the existing methodologies and proposes an enhanced solution to implement incremental content-based encryption on a secure but curious remote data store in a multi-user scenario. The intern may also develop a security analysis model and proof of concept of the proposed solution.
Master's	Finacle marketing	08	Global product launch Industry: Finacle Location: BANGALORE (India) Selected candidate will have an opportunity to work with the Finacle Marketing team on a global product launch. Brief introduction on Finacle: Finacle from Infosys partners with banks to transform process, product and customer experience, arming them with accelerated innovation to build tomorrow’s banks. Finacle solutions address the core banking, e-banking, mobile banking, CRM, wealth management, treasury, and Islamic banking requirements of retail, corporate and universal banks worldwide. The candidate will get an unmatched exposure of marketing function and an opportunity to work with the team behind industry leading banking product.
Bachelor's	Automation tool	16	Creation of GUI-based automation tools Industry: Energy, Utility, Communication and Services Location: HYDERABAD (India) This is to develop a Visio-based test automation tool for workflow-driven applications and also for developing tools for monitoring and remediation. Generally any order management / CRM / Service management applications interact with lots of interface applications, and there are complex business workflows involved for the order /CRM /service management journey. During design these workflows are designed in Visio but again someone needs to manually study the Visio and develop test steps for the same. The tool will read the workflow designed in Visio programmatically and drive test progression. This will involve design, R&D, development and testing of the tool.
PhD	Jquery / Flex	24	Mathematical modeling and solutions to operations research problems Industry: Engineering Location: BANGALORE (India) Optimal utilization of resources is a key factor in many industries such as oil distribution, vehicle allocations to dealers, cargo allocation to ships / aircraft etc. Many COTS like CPLEX provide convenient ways to solve the problems. However proper representation of the problem in mathematical yet realistic fashion is important. The project aims to model and solve typical problems.
MBA	Market plan development	10	Go-to-market plan development for France and Germany Industry: Finacle Location: BANGALORE (India) France and Germany are two European markets which offer Infosys substantial growth potential. The purpose of this project is to develop marketing strategies that will accelerate the penetration of one of our leading business units into these geographies. This will involve conducting an industry analysis to understand competitor activity and the business trends, and subsequently developing a detailed go-to-market plan for each country.
Bachelor's, master's	Product development	12	Niche product development Industry: Financial Services and Insurance Location: PUNE (India) This project is to develop a product that would cater to the Staff Vetting industry. This would be developed on Spring with Oracle as back end. The dashboard would be built on JQuery / Flex. The project will be executed in agile mode.
Masters, MBA	Trends and forecast	12	BPM market trends and forecast Industry: Energy, Utility, Communication and Services Location: BANGALORE (India) BPM market trends and forecast. This project aims at analyzing the BPM market trends at various industry verticals and fitment of the various BPM tools available in the market. Also ability to correlate and compare specific BPM tools with each industry. Forecast on various BPM products with industry trends. The deliverable for this project will be a report on BPM market trends and forecast. This aims at understanding where BPM is being adapted by various industry verticals and what are the major business problems that are being solved through BPM. Project will also focus on the overlap of BPM, analytics and complex event processing.
Masters, MBA, PhD	Framework	12	Greening business processes for sustainability Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) As social and environmental sustainability grow in importance at the enterprise level, companies have to address this aspect in their business and production processes as well. Traditionally business processes were designed taking into account parameters such as time, cost, quality, etc. However, sustainability brings new dimensions into this mix, such as energy usage, water footprint, carbon footprint, waste generated, etc. The intent of this project is to take some standard business processes in an industry such as mining, look at the process through the lens of sustainability and incorporate the new parameters that this brings in to propose redesign or re-optimization of the processes. The idea is then to create a framework that can be used or extended for other business processes or industry sectors.
Bachelor's, master's, MBA	Operational efficiency	12	Superior employee engagement and operational efficiency at a location level Industry: Energy, Utility, Communication and Services Location: HYDERABAD (India) Hyderabad Development Center of Infosys is a huge campus with large number of employees. Better employee engagement and hence productivity levels have a significant bearing on business outcomes / value delivered to customers. The project would focus on the study at this campus and involves exploring the technology platforms for social networking and collaboration, and their importance and effectiveness in creating innovative interventions for developing better employee engagement and managing operations at the development center. The project would involve leveraging the existing tools used at the Development Center such as crowdsourcing to solicit ideas, study of effectiveness of these platforms through research and interviews, meetings with number of key stakeholders at the Development Center and making recommendations / suggesting solutions to achieve superior employee engagement and operational efficiency.
Master's	Design for sustainability	08	Best practices and next practices in design for sustainability in heavy manufacturing sector Industry: Sustainability Location: PUNE (India) Understand and document best practices and next practices in designing for sustainability in heavy manufacturing sector.
MBA	Energy management	08	Market opportunities for energy management in India Industry: Sustainability Location: PUNE (India) Discovering practical opportunities for energy management in India and finding out critical customer requirements for being able to develop differentiated solutions.
Bachelor's	Analytics	08	Big data analytics Industry: Energy, Utility, Communication and Services Location: CHENNAI (India) Work on a DW use case using big data concepts. Understand data storage, ETL and data visualization using Hadoop framework. Options to customize data visualization offered using Pentaho and Tableu software.
MBA	Electric utilities	12	Point of view on predictive outage management for electric utilities Industry: Energy, Utility, Communication and Services Location: BANGALORE (India) Proactive and predictive outage management is extremely critical for electric utilities across the globe to better realize the objectives of Smart Grid. It is very important that the core IT and OT applications seamlessly exchange information in an efficient and intelligent way to make the outage prediction accurate and reliable. The objective of the project is to create a strong point of view on a potential solution that addresses the business pain points and benefits the utilities to a great extent.
MBA	Innovations	16	Innovation culture and subcultures Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Study of the existing innovation culture and subcultures within the various innovation groups or entities in the organization.
MBA	Innovations	16	Finding innovation opportunities and engaging with innovation tools Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) Research and consulting project: Finding innovation opportunities and engaging with appropriate innovation tools.
MBA	Banking and mobility	06	Challenges and opportunities of intelligent, intuitive banking and mobility Industry: Finacle Location: HYDERABAD (India)	Description: 1. Banks are increasingly looking to analyze the patterns of the transactions of their customer profiles to increase their business transaction values. With this, challenges will follow and technology products will need to become more intuitive to suggest these options. 2. Researching on how social media will help the banks to increase their business and convert it into revenue streams. To tap into this, research will need to be scoped on how companies like Infosys will build technological products to cater to such requirements. 3. Mobile payment channel is acceptable to more and more people everyday. How can mobility tap into hitherto untapped areas like healthcare and real estate? 4. Creating cross-linkages between non related entities and the banks. For example: retailers, telecom companies. How will these banking and non-banking entities integrate their synergies towards creating products which excite the masses? 5. How IT (or the lack of it in banks with legacy systems) can play a game-changer for the banks? 6. With the increasing focus of banks on technology, which primarily is a hit with the younger crowd, are they actually neglecting an area of their business which is less volatile, guaranteed and secure?
MBA	Strategic direction	10	Market intelligence assessment and strategic direction Industry: Financial Services and Insurance Location: PUNE (India) Develop a strategic plan for FSI (Financial Services and Insurance) research by assessing the current offerings, benchmarking the best practices, identifying the market intelligence gaps and recommending actionable solution. Project Description: A) Understand the current offerings of the Financial Services and Insurance (FSI) research team B) Benchmarking offerings against internal and external teams (who provide similar services) C) Understand the business and market intelligence needs of the research team’s key stakeholders (senior management, practice leads, delivery heads, sales, client-facing group, pre-sales, etc.). D) Formulate a strategic plan and recommend actionable solutions.
Master's	Process development	10	Development of Web 2.0 based knowledge sharing portal Industry: Finacle Location: BANGALORE ( India ) In our day-to-day roles, a large number of internal stakeholders have access to the latest trends within our target countries, and developments within our prospect accounts from primary or secondary sources. While this information holds significant value for sales prospecting and marketing campaign planning, much of this information isn’t shared and, worse still, is lost when team members change. The purpose of this project is to explore the latest trends in knowledge sharing to develop a portal in which intelligence about our target geographies and prospects accounts can be easily updated and shared to provide a mechanism by which weekly updates can be communicated to create a plan to internally evangelize the portal and encourage active participation in knowledge sharing.
Master's, PhD	Process development	24	E-waste take-back models in retail industry Industry: Sustainability Location: PUNE (India) E-waste take back models in retail industry.
Master's	Energy building	10	Design approach and technologies for net zero-energy buildings Industry: Facilities Location: BANGALORE (India) Infosys Green Initiatives / Infrastructure team is working to design and build the next generation of sustainable buildings to achieve the goal of making Infosys a carbon neutral company by 2018. In pursuit of this goal, Infosys is implementing state-of-the-art technologies in its buildings and campus with ingenuity. The next big leap in this direction will be the design and implementation of net zero buildings. This project is about putting together the design approach and strategy for net zero-energy building designs. These are buildings that will consume net zero energy over an entire year of operation. These are buildings with zero carbon footprint. The project will also involve research on new technologies that would go into a net zero-energy building.
Master's, PhD	energy harvesting	12	Design and development of energy harvesting wireless sensors Industry: Facilities Location: BANGALORE (India) This project involves the design and development of self-powered wireless sensors used in automation of home and energy-efficient buildings. The goal is to develop the next generation of self-powered eco-friendly wireless sensors that can be installed with minimal invasiveness. These sensors help in optimizing the energy usage and reduce operational costs by reducing the total cost of ownership. Deliverables: Schematic design of hardware modules, development of firmware, selection of suitable sensor components to meet the requirements of sensor modules, initial proof of concepts and prototypes. Resources: All the required software and hardware development tools for this project will be provided by Infosys.
Master's, MBA, PhD	Workforce management	6	Networked organizations and workforce of 2020 Industry: Manufacturing Location: HYDERABAD (India) Brief description: 1. What shape will networked organizations take by 2020? 2. How will the workforce of 2020 look like? 3. What challenges will employee and organizations face? Boundaries between personal and professional life, work life balance, etc. 4. What will be various collaboration options: ESS, OSN, mobility, remote / diversity / global workforce? 5. What challenges and opportunities it throws for companies like Infosys in terms of IT services and business solutions / products? In the course of the five past decades, semantics of corporate core concepts, such as networked organization and workforce, have been subject to sometimes revolutionary redefinitions. It is commonly accepted that this development is attributable to shifts in both economic and sociological power constellations. On the one hand, ongoing processes of globalization increase the internationalization of economic sectors, ranging from banking all the way to manufacturing. On the other hand, relatively new sociopolitical phenomena such as female empowerment, emergence of new technologies, and new generational paradigms of thinking are arguably intricately interconnected with sustainable and inclusive globalization. This poses both challenges and opportunities for networked organizations and the workforce. Assuming that the world will be even more global by 2020, the significance of these issues is likely to remain in the future. Hence, this project deals with a wide range of topics, which eventually have intrinsic impact on how corporations cope with both external and internal changes in terms of business communication and human resource development.
MBA	Analysis and proposals	10	Analysis and proposals for A) Strategic way forward for trade finance module B) Study of business Industry: Finacle Location: HYDERABAD (India) Project objective: Component A: 1. Study of various trade finance systems widely used by the banks internationally and compare the systems to Finacle Trade Finance. 2. Comparison to be made on the products offered, including operational aspects and advantages provided by each of the systems. 3. The project study to focus upon future market needs in the trade finance scope and provide inputs and recommendations Component B 1. To understand the issues faced by banks when upgrading from earlier versions of software to new versions for Trade Finance module Scope: Component A: 1.The study should focus upon the requirements in the trade finance domain in the space of advanced market products. 2. Focus should be on analyzing the business processes in various markets and documenting the best practices. Detailing how different systems in the market support the various life cycle events of trade products and features that provide advantages for the heavily operation-oriented business of trade finance 3. The study should also detail the impact on Trade Finance systems on account of new developments like Basel norms, changes in accounting standards, electronic channel impacts like white labeling, Bolero, Trade Portal, E-UCPDC, open accounts, trade services utility, supply chain space and other trends. 4. Target audience of this study includes those who are developing systems to manage the business. Component B 1. To understand the key operational issues / gaps encountered by the bank’s existing banking solution in Trade Finance solution. Expectations: Component A: 1. Conduct in-depth study on the business processes across the globe with focus on emerging trends in the space (Electronic channel impacts like Bolero, Trade Portal, open accounts and other trends) with focus on Northern America, Europe and Middle East markets 2. The authors of the study should present the results of their analysis with complete data and documentation.
Master's, MBA	Application development	4	App rollout planning for local DCs Industry: CORPADM Location: PUNE (India) This project involves defining the complete ecosystem for defining the apps, idea generation, app development, app testing, deployment and making it available to local DC Infoscions.
Bachelor's	Evaluation and assessment tool	24	Continuous evaluation and assessment tool (CEAT) Industry: Manufacturing Location: HYDERABAD (India) GUI to be based on any Web-based application (.NET or Java). Back end is Oracle / SQL Server. Application layer should be thin and majority of the logic to be handled in DB tier.
Master's	Compliance solution	12	Cloud regulatory compliance solution Industry: Cloud Location: BANGALORE (India) In policy management, automating management of policies and procedures as well as comprehensive document management, including version control and audit trails. In risk management, automate the assessment of risks. Link risks to strategic objectives and compliance programs, and manage risk mitigation projects. In internal audit, establish an audit system of record with automated processes for all phases of the audit process, including assessment and planning, audit work program, work paper management, documentation of findings, reports and follow-up. In compliance, effective regulatory compliance with monitoring and alerts to identify and remediate gaps. In incident management, collect incident information. Automate investigation of incidents. Track the progress of investigations and resolution of potential issues and compile proof of remediation and preventative measures.
Bachelor's, master's, PhD	Distributed computing	16	Energy efficient distributed computing Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) With the advent of cloud computing, massive amount of data is being generated. Due to the demand for real-time data processing and analysis, one needs to employ a massive amount of distributed hardware to store, process and analyze this data. Hadoop MapReduce framework is one of them. Hadoop MapReduce paradigm works on large clusters of machines, dealing with many long-running jobs of varying priorities. However, it has been observed that such infrastructure is not always energy efficient. There have been several reports that energy demand to run a data center having such a large distributed infrastructure is growing twice every year. Therefore, it is extremely important to have a distributed computing infrastructure that is not just optimal in terms of performance, but optimal in terms of power usage too. There are reports that show that a 5000-node Google cluster has only 10%-15% CPU utilization, but it is necessary to switch all of them on. Thus, we need an energy-proportional hardware while employing a massively distributed computing infrastructure. In this ongoing research project, we intend to explore various areas of energy-based computing. These will lead to several projects that interns can take up.

 

Past project database

Lists InStep projects that interns have been involved with in the past.

• 2012-2013
• 2011-2012
• 2010-2011
• 2009-2010
• 2008-2009