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Academic Concentration (Bachelor's, Master's, MBA or Ph.D)	Project Area	Duration (in weeks)	Description (You may specify keywords such as cloud, security, testing, research, marketing, strategy etc.)
MBA	Marketing/ Strategy	12	Healthcare Growth Opportunities and Areas of Investment from a Technology Perspective Industry: Business Platforms Location: Bangalore (India) The project aims at understanding the Healthcare market, the current technology providers, and future of the industry. It involves extensive research into understanding key industry trends, the current market scenario, possible growth avenues, and investment opportunities for technology and business enablers.
Bachelor's and Master's degrees, Ph.D.	Development	12	Micro Vision Systems for Human and Object Recognition and Analysis Industry: Products, Platforms and Solutions Location: Bangalore (India) One of the modules in our in-store product line is computer vision based shopper measurement. This research program envisages development of micro vision systems for human and objects recognition, and gaze analysis.
Bachelor's and Master's degrees, MBA	Design	12	Mobile Experience Design Industry: Products, Platforms and Solutions Location: Bangalore (India) The project aims to enable interaction design, usability and access for intuitive consumption of content and transactions on mobile interfaces.
Master's degree	Modeling	10	CLTV Calculation for Healthcare Industry Industry: Infosys Public Services Location: Pune (India) The Customer Life Time Value (CLTV) concept is an industry standard in most companies and is used to profile the customer base so as to target relevant customers with appropriate marketing strategies for different products/ services. Deliverables: - Create a PoV to compute CLTV of a member of Healthcare insurance company - Devise a statistical model that can be used to calculate the CLTV potential risks including lack of access to adequate statistical software and relevant data to create models
MBA	Marketing/ Strategy	10	Empowering Sales Enablement Industry: Marketing Location: Bangalore (India) The project entails a detailed analysis of the markets we operate in and the current go-to-market messaging for our core services and solutions across key industry sectors. It will also involve enhancing the content core to make it more relevant for our field force.
Master's degree, MBA	Consulting	10	Mobile Payments and its Associated Global Regulatory Framework Industry: Financial Services and Insurance Location: Bangalore (India) While mobile payments seem to be an obvious choice for consumers, there are two chief reasons that delay adoption of this payment mode: The first, a strong regulatory resistance towards mobile-based payments arising from security concerns and liquidity management; the second, cost per transaction arising from existing technological and regulatory compliance requirements. This project aims to clearly understand the existing mobile payment market space: The regulatory framework requirement in the desired market. The project also aims to propose a technical architecture that reduces the cost per transaction making mobile payments a systemic reality thus bringing a larger unbanked/ under banked population in the fold of structured financial services.
MBA	Research	4	Creating a High Touch On-Boarding Experience for New Employees Industry: Education and Research Location: Mysore (India) Project Description: - Study existing Infosys on-boarding/ induction programs - Compare and contrast with on-boarding/ induction programs of other companies - Suggest ways to enhance the existing on-boarding experience Deliverables: A report that recommends ways to enhance current on-boarding experience of new employees. Collate a list of benchmarked best practices software/ hardware using MS Office.
Ph.D.	Research/ Development	12	Electricity Markets for Smart Grids Industry: Education and Research Location: Bangalore (India) Smart Grids have a large number of heterogeneous entities distributed throughout the network who trade small amounts of energy. The adoption of renewable generation at homes and businesses will lead to the creation of markets composed of many ‘prosumers’ who both produce and consume energy. Prosumers must optimize both their production and consumption of energy in order to make real-time trading decisions to maximize profits by buying (to consume or store) and selling energy (either energy that they generate, or have stored earlier). We want to develop: -Computationally efficient learning algorithms that can accurately predict both the prosumers consumption and generation profiles, as well as the price of electricity in real-time for profitable trading decisions - Autonomous trading agents that can use these predictions to maximize their profit in the electricity market
Bachelor's degree	Research	6	Next Generation Infrastructure Services Industry: Manufacturing Location: Hyderabad (India) This project aims to study next generation Infrastructure Management services, its impact on businesses, the service delivery approach, and technologies that cause disruption to services. It will delve into the study of the latest technologies including Cloud, VDI, and Green IT, and their impact on businesses.
MBA	Research	8	Platform for Information Services Providers Industry: Products, Platforms and Solutions Location: Bangalore (India) The intern will be required to research specific product ideas to determine market, competition and relevance to the Information Services industry.
MBA	Marketing/ Strategy	12	M2M Service Line Creation Industry: Product Engineering Location: Bangalore (India) The project focuses on the analysis and creation of service lines in the M2M segment. It involves the study of fragmented market in this segment, analysis of service offerings, and the creation of a model for Infosys to adopt based on its strategy and role-play.
Ph.D.	Development	12	Think Composites Industry: Product Lifecycle and Engineering Solutions Location: Bangalore (India) The project involves development of an approach to re-engineering metallic components to composite components taking into account various engineering, manufacturing and maintenance aspects of the product. It involves assembling a generic approach/ methodology and best practices for the proposed re-engineering project.
MBA	Marketing/ Strategy	8	Potential Market for Core Banking Applications in the SaaS Model Industry: Finacle Location: Hyderabad (India) Analyze the potential market in Southern Europe for core banking applications deployed in the SaaS model.
Bachelor's and Master's degrees	Research	12	Design Guidelines: Migration Strategy to HTML5 from Flash Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) For decades, Adobe Flash has been the preferred toolkit for RIA development for both application designers and developers as it enabled a rich user experience. In the recent past, support for Flash in mobile devices has been receding and the most popular alternative is HTML5, as it brought audio and video API into the HTML domain. This project aims to enable migration of flash-based applications to HTML5 through appropriate design guidelines. Through this project we intend to determine common elements, which can be directly mapped from flash to HTML5 and provide better user experience.
MBA	Modeling	6	Optimal Customization Model for Finacle Core Banking Implementation Industry: Finacle Location: Bangalore (India) The project aims to develop an optimal model for Finacle core banking customization. This project will delve into data points from current and past projects of varied size. At the end of the project, we should be able to define: 1. The optimal size of a customization beyond which the efficacy/ stability is suspect *Expert view on why and how to make it more scalable (does it mean a huge effort /plan /integration overhead beyond a certain size) 2. The typical distribution of customization need in a project *Expert view on which area to focus to enhance the customization tool or product 3. The typical products that try to build customization and get stuck *Expert strategy view on these areas 4. The modules that need customization the most *Expert view on how to minimize customizations
MBA	Strategy	10	Cloud Adoption Business Strategy Industry: Cloud Location: Bangalore (India) Research, strategize and develop business and financial models for Enterprise Cloud Adoption.
MBA	Modeling	6	Optimal Role Ratio for Product (Finacle™) Implementation Projects Industry: Finacle Location: Bangalore (India) Finacle™ is the only product unit at Infosys. In product implementation, client expectations are very different from those of a services project. The product is owned by the unit so every individual within the implementation team is expected to have a certain degree of product expertise and domain competency. Historical data is available in terms of the profiles deployed at diverse projects at various stages and how successful they have been. Based on the data, we need to define an optimal role ratio structure based on several product roles that are deployed during a product implementation.
Bachelor's and Master's degrees	Research	15	Redesign of Legacy Systems Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) Design is a key challenge in development. A good design means everything is set in place. This project deals with redesign of critical systems keeping novel design principles in mind. These systems are business critical and their efficient design will lead to higher customer satisfaction. The project will take into account the business and the technological considerations during redesign so as to achieve a rich user experience without compromising on existing features and services.
MBA	Marketing/ Strategy	12	MS Solutions, Branding, Marketing Strategy and Execution Industry: Cloud Location: Pune (India) The project aims at building the Cloud Microsoft service line service offerings brand including collaterals, solution brochures, and success stories. The project requires building logos, the UI of existing solutions and conducting a market analysis on new vertical solutions.
Bachelor's degree	Research	10	An Emotional System for Effective and Collaborative eLearning Industry: Education & Research Location: Bangalore (India) Effective Computing is an emerging field in computer science/ engineering. With Emotional Systems gaining popularity, Infosys is working on some key concepts related to emotions, emotional systems, cognitive architectures, and the role of emotions in cognition. There are many applications for emotional systems amongst which a prominent one is emotional e-learning systems. The aim of this project would be to build an emotion sensitive e-learning system that is sensitive to both emotional aspects as well as the learning ability of the learner.
Master's degree, Ph.D.	Social Networking	08	Analysis of Social Media Contents Industry: Education & Research Location: Bangalore (India) Social media is a collection of network based software applications that are used for sharing user generated content. The common forms of social media are blogs, wiki, virtual worlds, and social networks. User generated content and social networks have empowered social media in making an impact in diverse areas. Every day researchers are finding newer applications for the same. Deliverables: - Explore design and implementation issues of an enterprise wide Social Media - Develop case studies on social, educational and professional networks' influence on decision making
MBA	Market Research	08	Market Research on a Leading Commerce Platform in the ECS Space Industry: Energy, Utilities, Communications and Services Location: Pune (India) The project aims at formulating and delivering the go-to-market strategy that provides maximum value for ECS Advanced Technologies (ADT) and Infosys at large.
Bachelor's degree	Cloud	08	Product Evaluation for Online Help in a Cloud Model Industry: Energy, Utilities, Communications and Services Location: Undecided The project involves product evaluation for Online Help in Cloud Model.
Bachelor's degree	Research	08	Innovation for Serving Telco Consumers in Online Space Industry: Energy, Utilities, Communications and Services Location: Pune (India) Convergence of sales and support models along with cross selling will be the best way to serve online Telco consumers. The project aims at building applications to serve online Telco consumers.
MBA	Marketing/ Strategy	04	Market Potential and Opportunity Analysis for Big Data in the ECS Vertical Industry: Energy, Utilities, Communications and Services Location: Hyderabad (India) The project involves identification of market potential and conducting opportunity analysis for Big Data in the Energy, Utilities, Communications and Services (ECS) vertical. Market analysis, competition analysis, Infosys SWOT, product vendors, and a listing of target customers will be the key deliverables.
MBA	Engineering and Sustainability	04	Sustainability Opportunities in Energy & Utility Space (Waste Management and Hazardous Materials) Industry: Energy, Utilities, Communications and Services Location: Hyderabad (India) The project aims at identifying Sustainability opportunities in Energy and Utilities, with special focus on Waste Management and Hazardous Material handling using IBM MAXIMO.
MBA	Consulting	10	Product Line Performance and Investment Analysis Industry: Finacle Location: Bangalore (India) Finacle is a leading core banking vendor with a goal of being among the top 3 universal banking solution providers globally. Finacle's products and services are aimed at driving end-to-end transformation for the banking industry. Finacle has been continuously investing in Product R&D to meet its goals. The project is to develop a product performance model that will help track investments on the product across various parameters and create P&L. The candidate should have good understanding of business performance management principles and frameworks, criteria, metrics, and governance mechanisms; should be able to obtain relevant data and analyze financial performance, ROI and investment analysis. The output should be a detailed analysis of product performance across lines of business, periods, competition, and geographies and a framework providing revenue and cost management criteria/ metrics/ practices that will help track the P&L across product lines and versions.
MBA	Marketing/ Strategy	08	Finacle Treasury Market Entry Strategy in China Industry: Finacle Location: Bangalore (India) The project aims at formulating market entry strategy for China.
Master's degree	Architecture Design	12	Enterprise Architecture Design Methodologies for Transformational Programmes Industry: Finacle Location: Bangalore (India) The project involves formulation of Enterprise Architecture Design methodologies for transformational programs.
Bachelor's degree	Marketing	16	FSI Marketing and Case Study Journal Editorial Internship Industry: Financial Services and Insurance Location: New York (USA) The Financial Services and Insurance (FSI) unit’s marketing program is creating an entirely new quarterly journal that will be a collection of case studies on notable and successful Infosys client projects. Not yet titled, the publication will be designed to establish credibility for FSI in various business lines. The publication will be used as a critical tool by the sales team, as it will demonstrate FSI’s strategic and technical prowess. This internship focuses on the creation and production of the journal’s inaugural issue, tentatively planned to focus on Mobile Banking. The role will involve managing a clearing house of potential articles that have been written internally and assisting internal review editors to select articles. Once selected, the intern will be involved with helping internal authors to develop their articles to completion. The position will also require writing case studies that will involve research, editing and creative graphic ideation. Responsibilities also include assisting in the production of journal - managing external service providers such as designs firms to print production houses. Internally, the selected intern will have to interact with IT consultants who have authored the articles and the marketing team including graphic designers and writers. Additional responsibilities that may have to be taken up include public relations and sales collateral development activities. Interests and experience in information technology, journalism, financial services, and business-to-business marketing are very helpful. This is an exceptional opportunity to be involved with the initial planning of a quarterly publication for its launch. The intern will get to learn about publishing materials in support of marketing initiatives from the ground up as the role requires being involved in the entire start-to-finish cycle.
Bachelor's degree	Marketing	16	FSI Marketing and FINsights Editorial Internship Industry: Financial Services and Insurance Location: Bangalore (India) An integral part of the Financial Services and Insurance (FSI) unit’s marketing program is the publication of FINsights, a quarterly collection of white papers designed to demonstrate the industry thought leadership of the organization's professionals. This peer review journal is a critical tool used by the sales team. Each quarterly issue is dedicated to one single topic that is a pressing issue/ challenge/ concern to both clients and prospects. Recent issues have been dedicated to topics such as Financial Services in the Mobile Age, Securities Operations and Core Banking Transformation. This internship focuses on the creation and production of the next issue of this journal, tentatively planned to focus on Internet banking. The role will involve managing a clearing house of potential articles that have been written internally, vetting the viability of articles to be included in the next issue, and assisting internal peer review editors as articles are selected. Once selected, the intern will be involved with helping internal authors to develop their articles to completion. This will involve research, editing and creative graphic ideation. It may also involve writing components of the publication. Other responsibilities include assisting with the production of the journal - management of external service providers such as designs firms and print production houses. Internally, the selected candidate will have to interact with IT consultants who have authored the articles, the marketing team and graphic designers. Additional responsibilities that may have to be taken up include public relations and sales collateral development activities. Interests and experience in information technology, journalism, financial services, and business- to-business marketing are very helpful. On-line link: http://www.infosys.com/FINsights/archives/Pages/financial-services-mobile-age.aspx
Master's degree, MBA	Solution Development	08	Building Requirements - Risk Management Solution Industry: Products, Platforms & Solutions Location: Bangalore (India) In the current economic condition, global financial markets are plagued by uncertainty. Risk Management and Compliance with regulations is necessary for companies to not only protect themselves from adverse risk exposures but also to maintain competitive advantage. Risk Management Solution help in identifying risk, measuring the risk and help with capital allocation and mitigate the risk. This project aims at building requirements to solidify Infosys’ risk management solution. The areas of risk that need to be covered are Operational Risk, Credit Risk, Market Risk, Integrated Risk, and Basel II and III implications in Risk Management.
MBA	Solution Development	09	Workflow for Pre-Trade Compliance in Trade Surveillance System Industry: Products, Platforms & Solutions Location: Pune (India) Pre-trade compliance and surveillance is becoming critical as regulators and clients are demanding better transparency, reporting and accountability. On both buy-side and sell-side, pre-trade risk filtering is a challenge and adequate risk controls needs to be in place. This project involves creating surveillance requirements for pre-trade compliance. It will involve identifying business rules that need to be automated to help with monitoring and adherence to regulatory and asset management guidelines. Risk controls will need to be identified. Pre-trade approval workflow to monitor end-to-end suitability requirements for optimizing and automating pre-trade compliance checks will also be needed.
Master's degree	Development	16	Flexible eCommunication - Phase 2 Industry: Financial Services and Insurance Location: Bangalore (India) The Flexible eCommunication suite is a highly customizable framework that generates customer communications on the fly by using a configuration file. Communication such as fax, print, email or SMS can also be integrated as a task or appointment generation to the BPM suite. The project aims at achieving the following critical objectives in phase 2: - Create REST-based services for present eCommunication - Create JSON objects to communicate - Code cleanup - Create demo data for each output
Bachelor's degree	Mobility	24	Mobile Banking Industry: Financial Services and Insurance Location: Bangalore (India) The project will involve understanding and creating functional and technology reference architecture for mobile banking.
Master's degree, Ph.D.	Big Data	08	Future of Large Data - Challenges, Managing Future State and Enabling Business Value Realization Industry: Products, Platforms & Solutions Location: Bangalore (India) Mobility and Compliance requirements have generated huge amounts of data in present day Financial Services (FS) organizations. While the requirements associated with compliance cannot be ignored, FS organizations are now trying to determine the best way to optimize their investments in large data systems. This may be done by not just looking at better storage and retrieval systems, but also at advanced data mining techniques so as to help generate better value from investments while meeting compliance requirements. Infosys is looking to partner with its customers to develop infrastructure strategies and advanced data retrieval and analytics platforms. This project involves development of expertise in performing causal analysis on large data originations and developing its associated infrastructure and value realization models such that they may be utilized for active commercialization. The project will assess: - Why financial companies are accumulating large data - How large data can be efficiently analyzed and managed - How large data can be tapped to generate value - Algorithmic and statistical challenges in modern large-scale data analysis
Master's degree, Ph.D.	Fraud Management	09	Fraud Management Capabilities using Analytical Tools - Insurance Sector Industry: Products, Platforms & Solutions Location: Pune (India) The rising occurrence of fraud is driving up costs for insurance companies and cost of premiums for policy holders. Frauds threaten the viability and profitability of insurance companies. Accuracy in fraud detection using intelligent software is critical to help battle the high cost of fraudulent claims. Automated detection systems and workflows are critical to improve fraud management. The project aims at building requirements to solidify our Fraud and Surveillance solution and help in proactively identifying frauds and countering fraud risks. Requirements are needed to: - Understand how to effectively screen key vendors and customers to help identify fraud by policyholder and intermediaries - Build predictive data analytics tools (Market Intelligence) to effectively detect red flags - Create a risk data mart that identifies fraudulent events and recognize claims that have higher probability of being fraudulent - Link static data and transaction data to help with future analysis by establishing links
Bachelor's degree	Social Networking	16	Developing a Social Networking Platform using Web 2.0 Industry: Financial Services and Insurance Location: Bangalore (India) We are developing a social networking platform on Web 2.0 that will have all the features of various networking sites currently available. We will be following the proprietary InfySwift methodology for development.
Master's degree, Ph.D.	Framework Development	08	Process Fatigue - Causal Effect, Assessment and Impact on a Knowledge-based Service Economy Industry: Products, Platforms & Solutions Location: Bangalore (India) Well defined processes are extremely critical for the success of any enterprise. However, excessive process enforcement in a knowledge-based service has the potential to condition and regulate the human thought process to an extent that it becomes counterproductive. This research program envisages performing a data-driven analysis and developing a framework to assess the impact of process enforcement on particular business processes. Deliverable: - White paper and assessment model for Impact and Suitability Assessment
MBA	Strategy	10	Evaluating Business Research Functions in the FSI Space Industry: Financial Services and Insurance Location: Pune (India) The project aims to formulate a strategic roadmap to achieve the vision of the business research team. It will assess the requisites for actionable market intelligence that will enable business research function to provide strategic insights into leadership. It will involve understanding the current offerings of the Financial Services and Insurance (FSI) research team and benchmarking offerings against internal and external teams (who provide similar services) through a combination of questionnaires, focused group discussions, personal interviews, and secondary research. Deliverable: Recommendations and steps to achieve the vision of the business research team.
Ph.D.	Research	12	Serious Games Industry: Infosys Leadership Institute Location: Mysore (India) Infosys Leadership Institute (ILI) is pursuing the design and deployment of Serious Games to help its geographically distributed pool of high potential leaders apply concepts learnt in other settings in a safe virtual environment. To advance this initiative, it is essential that further research is carried out to enhance the potential use of Serious Games for leader development. This project will focus on further investigating games based learning and leadership development, the benefits of using it, implementation issues, design and learning linkages, and profile of Serious Game users. Deliverable: A research document addressing the areas detailed above with reference to a specific Serious Game designed and deployed by ILI.
Bachelor's and Master's degree	Cloud	24	Analytical Services on Cloud Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Hyderabad (India) The main objective of the project is to develop parallel data mining algorithms to facilitate analytical capabilities in a Cloud environment. Analytical applications such as Attention Allocation System over Cloud need parallel constructs using map-reduce framework to handle the bias shown towards a particular node data distribution. ‘Local learning and global inferencing’ concept is one way of addressing it. Deliverables: - Design generic parallel data mining algorithms to support various analytical applications - Prepare an approach and methodology document - PoC development and testing on large data - Research paper (optional)
Master's degree	Research/ Development	16	Decision Support using Streak Identification and Continuity Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Hyderabad (India) The project involves designing novel algorithms to identify streaks in a time series, followed by prototype development. Streaks identified are expected to be least overlapping in nature so as to give a clear picture of series performance. The intern must identify the patterns in occurrence of the streaks and possess the ability to rank them. It is vital that the intern identify whether the current time period belongs to a streak and predict its continuity in the future. Deliverables: - Review of current techniques - Designing algorithms for streak prediction - Prototype development
Master's degree, Ph.D.	Research/ Development	12	Project Planning Automation Patterns Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) With today's challenges and complexities brought in by high location distribution in software projects, flux in requirements and architecture/ technology uncertainties, planning a project can become complex and adversely contribute to its risk profile. This project seeks to explore and develop patterns of automation for different phases of project planning comprising automated task identification and assembly of tasks, and assisted allocation of tasks to available resources. Apart from developing the mechanism, achieving project goals, minimizing risks, and optimizing the plan are vital.
Bachelor's degree, MBA	Cloud	12	Cloud Computing in Services Industry - Grand Challenges Identification Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) A new revolution in computing is evolving, namely Cloud computing, where the power of many is harnessed through the means of distributed computing. Cloud Computing platform enables businesses to harness 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: - How applications are designed and developed - Run-time infrastructure which will be virtualized and hosted on public infrastructure - Application QoS - performance, usability and security - Massive data processing in the order of peta and xetabytes The goal of this project is to 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 will face in the near future.
Bachelor's and Master's degree, MBA, Ph.D.	Artificial Intelligence	16	Vision of Artificial Intelligence Research Needed for Personalized Medicine; Vision for IT for Personalized Medicine Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Hyderabad (India) The project aims at creating a vision of artificial intelligence research needed for Personalized Medicine and the IT requirements. This will involve reading original research, understanding the concept of Personalized Medicine, understanding the breadth of artificial intelligence research, and the breadth of IT. Deliverables: A presentation and published paper in ICSEM for each vision.
Bachelor's degree	Social Networking	10	Twitter and DBPedia-based Dashboard Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India), Pune (India) Micro blogging and social networking sites such as Twitter amount for the highest hits on the web. Twitter is a commonly used online portal for communities that share their feedback on a particular product/ service. Organizations are benefitted from knowing the community’s perspective about them and their products. In this project, we aim to develop a dashboard for a company that displays tweet feedback for the company and its products. The desired dashboard should be developed in real time and use DBPedia to identify the subjects of the tweet search. DBPedia is a public dataset which maintains relationships and properties associated with resources. For instance, if a smart phone manufacturer is a resource, its properties will include names of company products, place of headquarters, name of CEO, etc. It identifies associated properties of a resource and uses them to search the blogging site. Two major modules of this project are DBPedia integration and Twitter search.
Bachelor's degree	Research/ Development	10	Entity De-dupe module and User Interface Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India), Pune (India) Entity de-dupe is a process whereby organizations can cleanse data from duplication. It analyzes the similarity in the name of entities and forms clusters of highly similar entities. A GUI displays these clusters and prompts the user to accept/ modify them and also select the preferred name for the entity. The cleansed data is then saved in the system. The project aims at developing this module for Infosys’s system. The preferred string similarity metrics to be used is Monge-Elkan5.
Bachelor's and Master's degree	Research/ Development	10	Dynamic Faceting Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India), Pune (India) Faceting or "Faceted Navigation" is a well-known technique which allows users to filter through available information efficiently. Faceting is commonly seen in online retail catalogs reflecting the faceted nature of product data such as type, brand and price. For our semantic search system, we want to implement faceting as a navigation tool. Our system is generic for all domains and hence facet dimensions such as type, brand and price cannot be pre-defined. They need to be extracted from domain ontology which is defined in the system. Furthermore, the relevant facets should dynamically change as user navigates and deals with different subsets of data. Deliverables: - Design and develop algorithms for efficient facet dimension and facet value identification in a domain independent manner - Implement the same as Java code
Bachelor's and Master's degree	Research/ Development	10	Analysis of Machine Learning Techniques (HMM, Nave Bayes Classifier, CRF, and Advanced-SVM) Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India), Pune (India) Every year, huge data is accumulated as web literature, reference literature, journals, etc. For the last three decades, Information Systems community is facing a major challenge in keeping track of this unstructured data and employing it intelligently. Even energy enterprises that show interest in accessing this data face a major challenge owing to its unstructured format. From an application perspective, organizations need to extract information automatically from such unstructured data but the massive size makes manual information extraction a near impossible task. Deliverable: - Learn, apply and enhance some of the existing machine learning techniques (HMM, Nave Bayes, CRF, Advanced-SVM) to the problem of custom entity extraction from unstructured data in English
Bachelor's and Master's degree	Research/ Development	12	Investigating Context among Commonly Occurring Terms using Statistical Techniques Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Pune (India) The project aims at extraction of a central theme from a given document. The central theme may be identified by extracting commonly occurring clusters of words in the given text. The clusters are in the form of n-grams and words around it. The system may also use anaphoral resolution to extract additional content for these n-grams. Deliverables: - Identify and use an API which would carry out anaphoral resolution on the given text - Use an algorithm to extract commonly occurring n-grams - Identify a collocation algorithm which would extract the collocating terms in the text
Bachelor's degree	Research/ Development	10	Entity Centric Index for NoSQL Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Pune (India) The intern will be required to create a NoSQL index from a RDF tuple with the help of MongoDB or Apache Cassandra.
Bachelor's and Master's degree	Semantic Search	12	Keyword-based Semantic Search Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Pune (India) The project involves identifying entities associated with the user search keywords, and generating SPARQL queries to return tuples related to the entities by taking any Resource Description Framework (RDF) repository instances and user keywords as input. - The project has to assume that no ontology has been provided and in this particular case the application has to create the conceptual model based on the provided RDF repository - User input can have multiple words - some words/ phrases matching the names of entities in RDF store and some words that may not find an exact match. If words are not present in the RDF store, two approaches need to be followed. Firstly, Lucene index should be created on original content associated with the RDF tuples or on the textual fragment of the repository. Lucene based search should then be applied on the indexed documents and entities related to entered words should be extracted. The search engine should also handle fuzzy string matching and spell check. Secondly, the user may give synonyms for text present in RDF store or Lucene index. In this case, associated synonyms from word net should be extracted and provided to Lucene search engine for entity identification. Once the associated entities have been identified, find the connecting paths between the entities and generate relevant SPARQL queries to return tuples or relationships.
Bachelor's and Master's degree, MBA	Research/ Development	16	Vision of Activity Context Aware Systems: Existing Work and the Future Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Hyderabad (India) Deliverables: - Write and publish a review paper on Activity Context Aware Systems: Existing Work and the Future, with a formal presentation through a website and in front of internal stakeholders - Illustrate use cases with details and technology enablers.
Bachelor's and Master's degree	Research/ Development	12	Development of Natural Language Search Engine Interface to Databases Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Hyderabad (India) Infosys is working on building a search interface for data federation system that will allow business users to perform ad-hoc queries without any knowledge of the underlying database schema structures. Deliverables: - Build a search system that can efficiently translate user search terms using rich semantic information - The system is expected to support very simple to very complex ad-hoc queries - Design and develop machine algorithms to provide appropriate search results for the given set of search terms
Bachelor's and Master's degree, MBA	Social Networking	12	Social Network Analytics: Approximation for Incrementally Updatable All-Pair Shortest Paths Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Hyderabad (India) Machine learning models that are used to analyze social networks must consistently adapt by training with new data and rules while discarding the old. 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 is a primary issue in such dynamic networks. Evolving technologies based on cloud create scope for new algorithms which resolves this setback. This project includes survey, design and prototype implementation. The scope of the project includes leveraging existing cloud infrastructure.
Bachelor's degree	Research/ Development	20	Reversible and Stream Data Masking Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Hyderabad (India) Growing public concern over the security and privacy of personal data has placed many companies and government agencies in the spotlight. Countries around the world are developing regulations designed to support confidentiality. These legislative actions, as well as frequent media reports of security breaches, have made the prevalence of such threats clear. This creates an immediate need for achieving data privacy. Deliverables: - Software that provides a simple method of scrambling data such that the look and feel remains the same and reins privacy of the records with reversibility on need bases after proper authentication - The tool must also facilitate the masking of the stream of data coming in from message queues on few selected fields
MBA	Marketing	12	Customer Segmentation Industry: Marketing Location: Undecided The aim of this project is to use customer segmentation as a basis for business/ marketing strategy. Deliverables: - Create value propositions - Build go-to-market plans - Improve customer experience - Improve organization capabilities
Master's degree	Big Data	06	Big Data: Data Modeling Techniques Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Undecided Data explosion is so rampant that enterprises are finding it difficult to mine available information from data. Big data as a concept is rapidly picking up and all major database vendors are jumping on board. As technology companies are coming up with tools which can help collate, store and analyze data, there is no defined process to model it conceptually or logically. There is a big gap between technology advancements and models required to solve business needs. Deliverables: - List current data model challenges - Formulate possible components for a data model that resolves big data challenges
Bachelor's and Master's degree	Research	16	Grain Size and Grain Boundary Modeling for Micro-cutting of Steels Industry: Product Lifecycle and Engineering Solutions Location: Pune (India) It is evident that microstructure has a significant effect on material properties. This project aims to study the effect of grain size, orientation and grain boundary on the material properties of steel. Using these inputs and the FE tool, material behavior can be studied analytically. Interns are expected to carry out mathematical modeling and FE analysis for grains and grain boundaries for micro-cutting of steels. Incorporating microstructures into an FE model of micro-cutting will lead to a better understanding of micro-cutting physics. This study will help aerospace industries implement micro-cutting processes.
MBA	Strategy	08	Digital Consumer in Emerging Economies Industry: Retail, CPG, Logistics and Life Sciences Location: Bangalore (India) The aim of this project is to study the importance of the digital consumer in emerging Economies.
MBA	Marketing/ Strategy	08	Principles and Strategies for Digital Marketing Industry: Retail, CPG, Logistics and Life Sciences Location: Bangalore (India) The intern is expected to formulate principles and strategies for Digital Marketing.
MBA	Consulting	08	Digitization within the Enterprise Industry: Retail, CPG, Logistics and Life Sciences Location: Bangalore (India) The aim of this project is to study digitization within the enterprise.
Bachelor's degree, MBA	Analysis	12	Product Information Management - Retail Industry Perspective Industry: Retail, CPG, Logistics and Life Sciences Location: Hyderabad (India) A detailed study and understanding of the Master Data Management packages from Product Information Management perspective, identification of the salient features of the PIM packages, comparison between different PIM packages and the advantages/ disadvantages of using the given packages is required. As part of the project, a study of the features and benefits and business benefits of MDM PIM is also required. Deliverables expected but not limited to the identification of salient features of the various PIM products, comparison of the features, and a basic configuration of a given PIM package, and building a standard configuration in a given package encapsulating the PIM features that could be showcased as a solution.
Bachelor's and Master's degree	Big Data	12	Monotonically Better Approximate Algorithms for Big Data Analytics Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) When dealing with large volumes of heterogeneous data and real time data streams one would need good approximations to analytics algorithms for achieving scalability and real time responsiveness. Objective of this project is to explore approaches for developing accurate, scalable and efficient approximations to analytics algorithms for dealing with Big Data. Deliverables: 1 Publication
Bachelor's and Master's degree	Big Data	12	Efficient Monte Carlo Methods for Big Data Analytics Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) Efficient Monte Carlo methods for big data analytics
Bachelor's degree, Master's degree	Cloud	16	Privacy Concerns in Modern Cloud-based Web Browsers Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Hyderabad (India) One of the recent enhancements in web browsers is to use the unlimited computational power of the cloud to aggregate, cache, precompile and predict user activities. This reduces the burden on the present day browsers which handle hundreds of requests to serve images, scripts, animations, computations, etc. and increases end-user experience. However, using cloud power to learn from the traffic patterns of web users have serious privacy and security concerns. Hence, the idea of splitting browser subsystems (components) between the browser and the cloud has to be enhanced with newer privacy controls in place. This project aims to understand the architecture of existing web browsers and analyze which subsystems can be moved to the cloud without compromising on the end-user's privacy and security.
MBA	Consulting	08	Corporate Sustainability and Education Industry: Education & Research Location: Bangalore (India) Corporate sustainability is an integral part of strategy and operations of most global firms. The nature of corporate sustainability, and its measures are well articulated. However, the link between corporate sustainability and education (in-company training) is not clear. Is there a link? If yes, what is the link? And how is the link measured?
Master's degree, MBA, Ph.D.	Consulting	12	Evaluating Leader and Leadership Development Programs Industry: Infosys Leadership Institute Location: Mysore (India) The Infosys Leadership Institute (ILI) facilitates and conducts various programmatic interventions to develop high-potential senior leaders in Infosys. We believe in a scientist-practitioner approach, and want to ensure that our programs have their intended effect. As such, they are all evaluated in various ways. The intern will help analyze this data, prepare reports and interpret the results for ILI and senior leaders. This effort will inform future offerings and programs, and will be a lead indicator to ILI's success in developing the future leaders of Infosys.
MBA	Consulting	12	Internal Corporate Ventures Practice Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) Large enterprises are looking at leveraging Internal Corporate Ventures (ICV) as a mechanism to incubate new businesses. The objective of this project is to develop an understanding of what People, Process and Technology capabilities are needed to successfully manage internal corporate ventures in an organization.
MBA	Consulting	12	Behavioral Competencies for Innovation Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) As organizations strive to build a sustainable innovation culture in their enterprise, a key aspect that needs focus is the 'behavioral competencies' required in employees to build the innovation DNA. The objective of this project is to gain an understanding of the required competencies and define the important criteria that make for successful leaders, mentors, and champions to develop the innovation capability of an enterprise.
MBA	Consulting	10	Project Target - Optimize Business Operations Processes of Account Industry: Energy, Utilities, Communications and Services Location: Hyderabad (India) The project aims to optimize internal processes so that they may be able to reduce DSOs (Days Sales Out), integrate internal and client process points to be able to reduce friction, and make internal customers happy.
Master's degree	Consulting	08	Improving Learning Effectiveness Through Alternative Learning Media and Methodologies Industry: Education and Research Location: Bangalore (India) The learning industry has been wrestling with two challenges: - Measuring the RoI on training - Keeping up with the dynamism of the learning environment to make learning stick The current learning scenario in the IT industry has evolved from the traditional learning functions designed in the past. Defining features include: - Ease of access to information sometimes causing an information overload - Learners demanding more engaging, interactive learning opportunities - Highly aware learners seeking inputs on skill application rather than just knowledge - Highly volatile business environments leaving little time for a learner to pursue learning at leisure - Increasing popularity of On-demand training rather than training for preparedness - Preference for learning on-the-job or in simulated, work-related environments rather than in traditional learning environments (classroom/ elearning) Given some of these changing dynamics, the Education and Research (E&R) department has been working on innovative ways to bring learning opportunities to Infoscions and to make them stick. This project will include - Analyzing different experiments being conducted in pockets (PMCoE, PE Academy, PSD, Innovation Labs) and reporting their effectiveness - Comparing and benchmarking with industry practices where available - Making recommendations on what has worked, what has not and why and alternative ways to do the same, what can possibly work given the inclinations, preferences, available resources and business demands.
MBA	Consulting	16	Improvement in Testing Processes for Information on Decision Making and Strategies Industry: Finacle Location: Bangalore (India) Deliverables: - Understand the current Testing Process - Understand the Current method of collection of metrics - Reduction of effort for collection of Testing Metrics - Present data as a decision making tool in milestones and status reports - Present data to various stakeholders (drill up/ drill down) - Understand customer defects - Understand internal defects - Identify strategies which highlight customer defects during internal cycle of testing
Bachelor's and Master's degree, MBA	Consulting	09	New Approach to Business Management with Input from Ancient Indian Literature Industry: Financial Services and Insurance Location: Bangalore (India) Ancient Indian literature deals with not only spiritual enlightenment but also with the art of self-management, conflict management, stress, anger management, transformational leadership, motivation, goal setting and many others aspects of management which can be used as a guide to boost Human Resource Management (HRM) effectiveness. Unlike the western approach to HRM which focuses on exploring the external world of matter and energy, the ancient Indian literatures recommends an approach which explores the inner world of the self. In this project, we review ancient Indian literature such as the Bhagavad Gita, Chanakya Niti, Shukra Niti, the Vedas, and the Upanishads, in light of modern management theories. Deliverables: - Model for realizing the project - Software for implementing the model - Dissertation comprising the approach, methodology and implication of the project - Project-specific research papers
Bachelor's and Master's degree	Consulting	09	An Evolutionary Model for Management of Hepatitis C: In Special Reference to New Medical Science Industry: Financial Services and Insurance Location: Bangalore (India) Hepatitis C, recognized as the silent epidemic, is a leading form of chronic liver disease that victimizes approximately 170 million people worldwide. It is caused by the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) and is primarily transmitted by blood-borne routes such as blood transfusion and shared needles. This project proposes a model which will incorporate inputs from modern medical sciences and from traditional Indian methodology including yoga, mantra, ayurveda, and pranayama to improve patient responses towards treatments. Deliverables: - Document comprising concept, methodology, approach, and benefits for the project - A prototype of model - Project-specific software for patient management
MBA, Ph.D.	Consulting	12	Identify an Ecosystem for Seven Themes Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) Infosys has identified seven themes which will largely impact global companies in the near future. Each of these themes is supported by three key ideas that drive the theme. They are powerful tools to devise new innovations to transform organizations. Considering that these themes are large and impactful, one company may not be able to deliver the necessary capabilities and innovations. To bring about really transformative innovations we need to take an ecosystem approach and bring together a set of partners across the ecosystem including academia, startups, VCs, large corporations, and government. The project aims at designing this ecosystem which involves identification of potential players, their specialty to play a unique role in this ecosystem, roles of the participants, and an operating model for all the participants to gain from this ecosystem.
Master's degree	Corporate Social Responsibility	16	Pune CSR Industry: Corporate Social Responsibility Location: Pune (India) This project is based on the Pune CSR activities. The intern will focus on the 'School Adoption' CSR project which is currently running. The intern will also asses other small programs that are active.
Bachelor's degree, Master's degree, MBA, Ph.D.	Development	12	Evolving the Change Mindset in Leaders Industry: Infosys Leadership Institute Location: Mysore (India) The Infosys Leadership Institute (ILI) is responsible for the identification and development of very senior high-potential leaders. A prerequisite to development is the belief that change is possible. Research shows that this belief itself exists to different degrees in different people. This project involves building an interactive learning module to change people's beliefs about change, based on the work of Carol Dweck and other researchers in psychology and education who have studied how beliefs influence success. It requires an application of instructional design/ training methodologies to develop an interactive and compelling technology-based learning solution.
Master's degree, MBA, Ph.D.	Development	12	Preventing Leadership Derailers Industry: Infosys Leadership Institute Location: Mysore (India) The Infosys Leadership Institute (ILI) has initiated studies on leadership, both effective and dysfunctional leadership. While we understand how to measure and develop the former reasonably well, it is less clear how to deal with potentially dysfunctional or derailing behaviors of leaders. Using qualitative data collected recently, the intern will develop a tool for diagnosing and eventually coaching leaders out of dysfunctional behaviors. This tool will take the form of a situational judgment test but focus on training/ development applications over selection/ screening applications.
Bachelor's and Master's degree, Ph.D.	Development	12	Activity Context Aware Next Generation Digital Workspaces Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Hyderabad (India) This project involves researching Context Representation within Activities: What machine languages are most suitable for activity representation to enable activity and context switching and context recall across devices, platforms and technologies?; Semantic Activity Reasoning: How to model and represent activities, objects, resources, actions and their semantics in their context during task performance?; Information integration and Exchange: How can growing amount of information available from devices, services, the environment be integrated and exploited; Context Capture: How far can context capture be automatic and to what extent will it require collaborative meta-dialogue between people and devices? Project deliverables include a couple of publications and summary of research.
Master's degree	Engineering and Sustainability	12	Impact of Thermal Energy Storage on the Energy Scenario in India Industry: Sustainability Location: Bangalore (India) It is said that 70 % of India will be built in the next 15 years. Such an expansion will require setting up large number of power plants in India. Air conditioning contributes to more than 50% of an office building's energy consumption and thus consume maximum amount of energy. This project answers the following questions - Can thermal energy storage help us avoid building some of these power plants? Can Thermal Energy Storage reduce the environmental impact? What should be the optimal shift to thermal storage to make the concept viable?
Master's degree, MBA, Ph.D.	Engineering and Sustainability	12	Financial Integration of Sustainability in the Enterprise Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) One of the challenges for enterprises in integrating sustainability into the mainstream is measuring the value of sustainability in financial terms and its impact on the top and bottom line. The ability to tie the financial aspects of sustainability into business decisions can help in aligning investments and initiatives on sustainability with business strategy. This can also help create the right business case for investments on sustainability initiatives. The purpose of this work is to come up with frameworks and tools to identify the key areas of sustainability that are material, assess risk to business from ethical, social and environmental perspectives, assess impact of external factors such as regulation and societal perceptions on sustainability, and be able to measure impact of action/inaction on the financial balance sheet and their alignment to corporate goals. The actual project will be more specifically defined under this broader opportunity space.
Master's degree	Engineering and Sustainability	10	Water Management Framework Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) Water is an indispensable resource. Water scarcity, quality and competition can hamper a company's operations, thus making it a key focus area for larger businesses to manage in a sustainable manner. The objective of the project is to provide a water management framework for businesses in a simple and manageable format. The framework needs to contain all aspects of water management from information capture mechanisms, risk assessment to measurement and monitoring techniques. The focus will be to showcase the monetary impact of not managing risks, along with the value creation due to water management.
MBA	Engineering and Sustainability	12	Strategy for Water Management Offerings at Infosys Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) According to the UN, two-thirds of the world's population is projected to face water scarcity by 2025. A major impact of water stress will be on industries. The bright side to this gloomy prediction is that enterprises can make a difference with proactive water management and conservation efforts. The objective of this project is to perform market analysis, competitor analysis, and identifying opportunities for water management systems and work out a strategy in line with Infosys competencies. A byproduct of the analysis will be identification of potential partners and probable investments in this space.
Master's degree, MBA	Engineering and Sustainability	08	Sustainability Economics in Enterprise Supply Chain Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) The projects aims to study relevance of sustainability initiatives in enterprises.
Master's degree	Engineering and Sustainability	12	Biomimicry and Bioclimatic Design Industry: Sustainability Location: Bangalore (India) The IT sector typically utilizes large built-up areas as workspaces. In standard practice, concerns of environmental efficiency using Green building norms are usually applied to an architectural concept. In many cases, the form of a building makes it difficult to adapt to the stringent norms required to make a building truly energy efficient and structurally optimal. As the Project Pilot, the candidate will explore Biomimicry and Bioclimatic Design at the site and building levels to suggest possible architectural solutions. Deliverables: Simulation models and efficiency statistics supporting the concepts.
Master's degree, Ph.D.	Engineering and Sustainability	12	Industry Innovation and its Impact on Architectural Form for IT Buildings of the Future Industry: Sustainability Location: Bangalore (India) The IT sector is constantly confronted with innovations in de-centralized and disparate networks and data management over remote platforms. Concepts like miniaturization and Cloud Computing will eventually shape the way people work and operate in the IT business. The project requires forecasting a campus type and campus size of the future and detailing selective buildings therein. The project will examine space allocation matrices, scalability and morphology using secondary data studies/ research on industry scenarios. Distinctive yet cohesive visual identities meeting/ improving all functional and environmental targets set forth by the Green Initiatives team shall be an additional factor.
Master's degree, Ph.D.	Engineering and Sustainability	16	Urban Futures: Campus as a Catalyst Industry: Sustainability Location: Bangalore (India) Large IT campuses tend to have impacts beyond their boundaries, and beyond their own establishment timelines. As focal points of employment, campuses tend to be associated with urbanization effects such as constant mass movement of people, infrastructure demands, urban sprawl, natural habitat fragmentation, air quality degradation, and groundwater depletion. IT campuses of the future can potentially re-invent and make sustainable goals go beyond campus boundaries.
Master's degree	Engineering and Sustainability	16	Campus Landscape and Green Infrastructure Industry: Sustainability Location: Bangalore (India) The Infosys campus works according to specific timelines. With specific working hours and limited mobility between BPO and non-BPO buildings, the roads and open spaces of a campus lend themselves to question as to the usage of space. Based on studies of geographical region, bio-climate, and forest type, the aim is to put in place, a formal methodology to map, track and update the campus' biodiversity aspects. This exercise will include examining known species diversity/ equivalent area in the nearest natural landscape. The results will be used to create an action plan for more species diversity in our campuses. In addition, the biodiversity mapping will also look into regional afforestation initiatives which help meet existing and projected Infosys goals in specific relation to carbon sinks and carbon neutrality.
Master's degree ,Ph.D.	Engineering and Sustainability	12	Advanced Technologies for Waste Water Treatment and Reuse Industry: Sustainability Location: Bangalore (India) Infosys is implementing state of the art technologies in its infrastructure development across its Indian campuses. All Infosys campuses are Zero discharge facilities with sewage treatment plants to help recycle every drop of waste water generated within our campuses. Currently, all Sewage treatment plants have aerobic processes which are energy intensive and also emit large amounts of carbon dioxide produced owing to the breakdown of organic particles. A major objective of the project is to identity technologies which are less carbon intensive and also reduce the per capita energy consumption for treating waste water. The intern will be required to interact and work with the Green Initiative unit, the infrastructure design team at Infosys. The intern will have the opportunity to study existing waste water treatment technologies in our campuses. Background - Masters in Environmental Engineering, Masters in Waste Water Engineering, and Chemical Engineering with project expertise in Water/ Waste Water Treatment.
Bachelor's and Master's degree	Engineering and Sustainability	12	Innovative Air-conditioning Methods Industry: Sustainability Location: Bangalore (India) The project aims at identifying and employing innovative air-conditioning methods in enterprises by: - Testing innovative cooling or air-conditioning methods: This involves setting up equipment on a laboratory scale and enabling field measurements. E.g., Night sky cooling and passive cooling methods - Retrofits to existing air-conditioning system: This calls for taking measurements in an existing air-conditioning system and evaluating various retrofits to improve efficiency. It requires good knowledge of HVAC system - Building Management system: This requires arriving at the minimum number of control points to ensure maximum efficiency in a Building Management system. The objective is to simplify the controls to achieve high efficiency in the system. The focus is on HVAC system.
Bachelor's and Master's degree	Engineering and Sustainability	12	HVAC and Electrical system Performance Monitoring and Control Tool Industry: Sustainability Location: Bangalore (India) The project aims to study and develop an in-house software and hardware to monitor HVAC and electrical system performance and analyze defects. The objective is to develop a robust system to monitor and control the system effectively. The system must be capable of analyzing the gap between design versus actual efficiency in all the sub-system equipment such as chillers, pumps, AHUs, cooling towers, and UPS.
Master's degree	Engineering and Sustainability	12	Application of Recycled water for HVAC Cooling Towers Industry: Sustainability Location: Bangalore (India) The project involves study of cleaning and maintenance activities in organizations, taking measurements and quantifying savings potential through trials. This is achieved by: - Evaluating and arriving at the best water treatment system for cooling tower (air-conditioning system) across different locations. Infosys has about 47,000 tons of chillers installed across different locations. The consumption and treatment of water for this capacity is significant. Having customized and best water treatment system in accordance with the location and water quality is crucial to attain water efficiency - Minimizing water consumption in maintenance: The objective is to minimize water consumption in regular maintenance of Infosys facilities. The focus is on our Mysore campus hostel blocks (where we have nearly 10,000 rooms), as they consume significant water for regular maintenance.
Master's degree, Ph.D.	Engineering and Sustainability	12	Lighting System Energy Benchmarking Industry: Sustainability Location: Bangalore (India) The project aims to benchmark energy consumption in lighting system through: • Study of energy monitoring data of lighting in various buildings across Infosys and establish benchmarks in lighting energy consumption by building, by user, by lighting type, etc. This involves talking to various user groups and compiling feedback • Optimizing lighting system: This involves standardizing lighting for different applications for achieving high efficiency in different areas such as offices, service areas, outdoor, street light, health club, etc. This involves thorough study and field measurements and feedback from the user groups.
Master's degree, Ph.D.	Engineering and Sustainability	12	Effective Waste Management at Infosys Campuses Industry: Sustainability Location: Bangalore (India) The project involves formulation of an effective strategy for curtailing waste generation in Infosys campuses and generating a revenue generation model for waste management. Infosys has about 10 campuses in India employing over 100,000 associates. An invariable consequence of this structure is the generation of a large amount of waste both biodegradable such as food waste, lawn waste etc., and non-biodegradable such as paper, plastics, e-waste, etc. Currently, there is an effective waste management strategy in all our Indian campuses, which meets the regulatory norms in India. With waste management being one of our sustainability goals, we seek to enable recycling and reuse of all organic waste either in the form of manure or for generating energy through biomethanation. Further, we seek to recycle all inorganic waste too. We are looking for passionate students with a background in environment to study our existing waste handling practices and generate a sustainable waste management plan, which meets global standards. Presently, waste is considered as a liability and most of our efforts are directed at effective disposal thereby making the process unsustainable.
Bachelor's degree	Engineering and Sustainability	08	Green Warrior Industry: Sustainability Location: Bangalore (India) The Green Warrior project aims at creating awareness on the declining ecological footprint amongst Infosys employees.
Bachelor's and Master's degree, Ph.D	Engineering and Sustainability	16	High Performance Building Design Industry: Sustainability Location: Bangalore (India) The project aims to implement green building design in all new buildings constructed in Infosys campuses with 40 per cent improvement in design. Infosys constructs more than 2 million sq ft of built space annually, and has committed to constructing new buildings as high performance buildings, which go beyond the green building platinum ratings. Infosys is collaborating with experts and laboratories across the world to implement cutting-edge building technologies in HVAC, lighting, controls and building management systems.
Master's degree, Ph.D.	Engineering and Sustainability	16	Sustainable Campus Planning Industry: Sustainability Location: Bangalore (India) Infosys is planning a new 300-acre campus. The intern gets an opportunity to work on the concept planning of the entire campus in sync with the principles of sustainability. The goal is to design a campus with net zero energy, net zero water and net zero waste, while ensuring that native trees are used for landscaping. The intern has to research globally best designed campuses and provide a wish list and requirement specification that can be shared with consultants.
Master's degree, Ph.D.	Engineering and Sustainability	16	Sustainable Water Management Industry: Sustainability Location: Bangalore (India) In order to meet water sustainability goals in all our campuses, Infosys is looking for an intern with experience in rainwater harvesting, raw water treatment, water recycling, and/ or water efficiency to implement strategies for efficient buildings and on a campus level. The efforts of the intern will fructify in developing water accounting standards for Infosys.
Bachelor's and Master's degree	Engineering and Sustainability	16	Biodiversity and Landscaping Strategy Industry: Sustainability Location: Bangalore (India) Infosys is committed to increasing biodiversity on campus and supporting biodiversity initiatives in the community, through a massive native tree planting drive in coordination with neighboring sanctuaries resulting in protected corridors. Infosys is committed to planting over 30,000 trees annually, but needs to evolve a larger and longer term strategy for meeting the campus biodiversity need. Though a baseline analysis of biodiversity on campus has commenced, we require a thorough plan for implementation and structure for future monitoring.
MBA	Engineering and Sustainability	16	Developing Sustainability Strategy for Infosys Industry: Sustainability Location: Bangalore (India) The project aims to define sustainability goals for Infosys and other IT service companies. Besides, it calls for suggesting structural changes in the company and the know-how to drive changes. The project also envisages developing a sustainability road map and vision for the organization.
Master's degree	Image Recognition	12	Social Profile Analysis Using Image Recognition Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) Social Media analytics is gaining popularity and continuous efforts to utilize social data to explore business opportunities are being made. Social referral and recommendation platforms are being developed as part of the HIMI product suite by the 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 image contents can provide several data points which are useful for social media analytics application. The internship project will require development of image recognition algorithms to analyze image contents and extract social profile data such as age group, gender and emotions. Deliverables: - Developing a prototype and research report highlighting algorithm and performance evaluation
Bachelor's degree	Image Recognition	12	Computer Vision Based Component Location Search Tool Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) The project will aim at developing an image-based component location search solution where images captured using a handheld device will be compared with images in the database to find nearest visual match. It requires implementation of content-based image retrieval algorithms and experimenting and evaluating them. Deliverables: -Help develop proof-of-concept to demonstrate the solution using handheld device.
Bachelor's degree	Image Recognition	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 is to evaluate and improve the existing techniques and/or devices and provide new techniques for detection and categorization of Mitosis from high resolution images of biopsy slides. Upon completion, the technique will be evaluated against publicly available datasets. Deliverables: - Developing a prototype and research report highlighting algorithm and performance evaluation
Bachelor's degree	Image Recognition	12	Image Analytics for Retail Stores Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) Retail stores need to identify various product merchandising conditions such as of out of stock, product facing condition, price compliance, and planogram compliance. At present this analysis is done manually which takes up a lot of effort and time. This project will have to propose a computer vision based approach for analyzing retail store merchandising scenarios by 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 proof of concept for image recognition and algorithm evaluation and benchmarking.
Master's degree	Image Recognition	12	Image Based Biomedical Literature Retrieval Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) Medical image processing is a highly specialized area which demands much research and development. Application of various algorithms and methodologies to solve medical problems through image processing is a huge challenge for researchers and technologists. This project aims at solving healthcare literature retrieval issues. It will involve studying and implementing various CBIR (content based medical image retrieval) algorithms and feature extraction techniques. Expected deliverables are developing proof of concept for image recognition and algorithm evaluation and benchmarking.
Master's degree, MBA, Ph.D.	Internet	16	Application of Internet of Things Platform to Different Verticals Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) Internet of Things (IoT) is a network formed by connecting everyday objects such as appliances and vehicles. 'Things' communicate with computers and each other, providing services for the benefit of human kind. This project aims at measuring, improving and automating tasks; analyzing and providing innovative solutions for gaps identified. Technology areas covered include wireless sensor networks, connected digital objects, RFID, Machine to Machine (M2M), and energy management. The project seeks to explore the IoT application with different verticals. Candidates with prior work experience in retail, manufacturing, logistics, and telecom/ networks domains are preferred.
Bachelor's degree, Master's degree, MBA, Ph.D.	Market Research	08	Understanding the Strategy and Value Proposition of Key IT MNCs Operating out of China through SWOT Analysis Industry: Independent Validation Solutions Location: Shanghai (China) The project aims at understanding the strategy and value proposition of Key IT MNCs operating out of China through SWOT analysis.
MBA	Market Research	08	Study of Worldwide Hi-Tech Transportation and Logistics Market, Potential Opportunities of Enterprise Industry: Manufacturing Location: Bangalore (India) Worldwide the Hi-Tech Manufacturers deal with multiple contract manufacturers, suppliers, 3PL or third party Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) and the entire transportation and logistics activities are completely outsourced to internationally acclaimed 3PLs. Although it has been outsourced, there is a huge potential for achieving optimization through deployment of ERP solutions in this market and secure adequate savings beyond what LSPs are providing to the Hi-Tech Manufacturing clients. The objective of this study is to estimate the potential market size in terms of Hi-Tech Transportation and Logistics; study the trends among the top 15 Hi-Tech manufacturers in the world; identify potential opportunity for deploying Enterprise Transportation Management applications and what will be Infosys's market entry strategy to tap this opportunity across geographies.
MBA	Market Strategy	10	Building Global Market Strategy for Financial Services and Insurance Sector Industry: Financial Services and Insurance Location: Bangalore (India) Today, the intensity of competition in global markets is a major challenge for most companies. With an evolving business landscape, shrinking global markets, changing regulatory environment, continuous technological evolution, it is critical to understand the dynamics of the marketplace in order to stay ahead of competition. This project involves developing a global market strategy in the following areas within Financial Services and Insurance space namely: - Fraud Prevention and Surveillance - Financial Reconciliation - Exception Management - Customer on-boarding - Web-based portals for financial clients
MBA	Market Strategy	10	Develop Targeted Marketing Strategy and Generate New Business from FSI Pro Industry: Financial Services and Insurance Location: Bangalore (India), Singapore Development of a targeted marketing strategy unit at a regional level.
Master's degree, MBA	Marketing	12	Business Analyst Industry: Energy, Utilities, Communications and Services Location: Chennai (India) Infosys EnQuRE is an innovatively conceptualized collaboration solution that rapidly transforms a chaotic ad-hoc communication scenario into a consistent business process support model for internal technicians and support centers. Deliverables: - Market and Product analysis - Analyze roadmap features - Areas of improvement in the product - Marketing collaterals
MBA	Marketing	10	Marketing Intelligence and Planning Industry: Marketing Location: Bangalore (India) This project aims at building a best-in-class marketing dashboard by working closely with senior leadership of Infosys Americas Marketing team. The dashboard will represent analyst relations, public relations, events, and social marketing. The dashboard should demand generation results and impacts on a monthly and quarterly basis. The final deliverable will be a visual dashboard that is fed from CRM and other inputs.
MBA	Marketing/ Research	10	Market Research and Design of New Service Offerings and Pricing Models in Mainframe Infrastructure Industry: Energy, Utilities, Communications and Services Location: Bangalore (India) Mainframe (MF) services are an emerging service line within Infrastructure Management services portfolio. Demand for Mainframes is ever growing due to high level of system availability and security, its versatility of running multiple workloads and the ability to be ahead of technology trends. While MF market and services is growing, the workforce for the same is dwindling. Infosys is in the process of launching multiple service offerings both around engineering and operations services for MFs. This project involves market research - identifying market demands, priorities and problems; designing service offerings; creating collaterals that help the sales and marketing teams; designing new MIPS based pricing models. It aims at helping Infosys clearly identify focus areas in the Mainframe Infrastructure Services space based on market demand.
MBA	Marketing/ Strategy	04	Comparative Study of Landscape of Order Fulfillment in the European Market and the Future Trend Therein Industry: Energy, Utilities, Communications and Services Location: Pune (India) This project involves a comparative study of landscape of order fulfillment in the European market and the future trends in that space.
Bachelor's degree, Master's degree, MBA	Marketing/ Strategy	12	Sales Strategies/ Approach for Testing Services with Focus on BFSI Industry: Independent Validation Solutions Location: Pune (India) As part of this project, the intern will conduct a market study about test sales penetration opportunities in the BFSI domain. The goal is to gain valuable information on current outsourcing trends to conduct competition analysis of current accounts and prospects. At the end of the project, the intern will give recommendations on sales penetration strategies.
Bachelor's degree, Master's degree, MBA, Ph.D.	Marketing/ Strategy	08	Analyze China's Financial Services and Insurance Market and Define Infosys' China Business Strategy Industry: Independent Validation Solutions Location: Shanghai (China) This project aims at developing marketing strategy to capture higher market share in non-US (especially China mainland and south east Asia) markets. It involves development of actionable plan by analyzing market requirement, trends, and competition vis-a-vis Financial Services and Insurance Unit (FSI) SWOT.
Bachelor's degree, Master's degree	Mobile computing	12	Mobile Augmented Reality Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) Information, superimposed on the users view provides users with experiences not possible in just the real world. Augmented Reality (AR) implementations span between 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 this research is to understand the various prominent mobile augmented reality systems, underlying algorithms, patterns and to identify best practices. This project aims to understand the emerging trends in mobile augmented reality systems and build a prototype mobile augmented reality system.
Master's degree	Modeling	12	A Statistical Approach to Enhancing Alternate Pricing Models Industry: Corporate Location: Bangalore (India) The project aims to enhance non-effort based pricing models being used across the company by: - Developing more robust models through optimizing the parameters as well as the stratification - Creating an approach for stress testing the models (using Monte Carlo simulation) and applying it to current engagements - Developing a proactive approach to data gathering and helping projects to move from T&M to non-effort based pricing models
MBA, Ph.D.	Modeling	12	Valuation and Pricing Models for Virtual Money System Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) The project aims at developing a model to assess the value of online activities/ outcomes for a given process or activity, which in turn will help set a price for the activity/ outcome. The project involves research on market based pricing model for valuing/ pricing online activities and outcomes considering key aspects such as money supply and inflation; governance processes necessary to administer such a virtual money system for enterprises; identifying any loop holes/ risks of implementing such a system.
Bachelor's degree, Master's degree, MBA, Ph.D.	Research	10	Collaboration in Scientific Research Community Industry: Retail, CPG, Logistics, and Life Sciences Location: Bangalore (India) Infosys is exploring the concept of enabling collaboration in scientific community. This collaboration involves various entities engaged in a scientific experiment. Broad focus is on how the productivity can be increased by a few concepts such as: • Bringing in reusability • Easy access to information • Harmonized single view of scattered data We expect the candidate to: • Carry out market research to validate the relevancy on concept • Come up with various flows on day-to-day activities of various roles in scientific community • Identify the collaboration and touch points in these flows. This will translate into use cases for collaboration • Identify the various systems the community uses, identify fragmentation, and analyze how the data can be integrated
Master's degree, MBA, Ph.D.	Research	12	Construct Validation Study of Leadership Assessment(s) Industry: Infosys Leadership Institute Location: Mysore (India) The Infosys Leadership Institute (ILI) has developed sophisticated and unique assessments for identifying and developing senior high-potential leaders. These assessments were built entirely in-house by ILI assessment experts. While these show adequate reliability and validity and have been used successfully for our leaders, to establish them as credible measures in research literature, a construct validation study is required. The intern running this study will administer the ILI assessment(s) and existing measures of personality, goal orientation and leadership effectiveness to understand the inter-relationships amongst these. This study will result in potentially publishable results validating (or questioning) the use of various assessments for leadership identification and development.
Master's degree	Research	10	Contour Based Object Detection Industry: Education and Research Location: Bangalore (India) Study of object detection methods including contour-based object detection.
Master's degree	Research	08	Intercultural Competency Development Industry: Education and Research Location: Bangalore (India) Enterprises today are challenged with integrating a diverse skill force to work towards common goals and achievement of the organization's vision. In this context, PSD - the behavioral learning department researches and proposes ways in which to make the integration effective. This will mean a thorough research of the impact of existing interventions, current work culture, and an analysis of what has worked and what ails on this front. It also means conducting a study of industry best practices with a view to recommend new ways of supporting the transition, bringing in new practices that can advise our current ways, and learning from insights that our diverse workforce have to provide us. During the eight week internship, the intern will be required to: - Conduct anecdotal analysis of past and current practices within the organization - Interview select employees with insights into the situation (eg. Indian managers managing non-Indian team members, non-Indian hires trying to fit in, Infoscions with extensive experience living outside native culture/ working extensively with clients from different geographies) - Benchmark with similar practices in other organizations - Research tools, methodologies and interventions that can add value to what we already do - Present findings on effectiveness of current practices, analysis of current situation and its impact, and make recommendations on what we can attempt to do to correct them Advantages are that there is already a good body of work available to start with, a readily available pool of practitioners to interact with and experienced professionals who can provide guidance on these matters. Challenges may be the time consuming nature of the work involved and having to quantify parameters that have only been tracked qualitatively, to make accurate inferences.
Master's degree, Ph.D.	Research	15	Enabling Innovative Applications on Information Centric Networks (ICN) Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) Information Centric Networking (ICN) is an emerging paradigm in the design of future internet. It has received significant support in the recent past and leading academic and research labs are actively driving research in this space. As part of this project, the intern will explore, identify and implement innovative applications that can benefit significantly from the ICN paradigm. Deliverables: - An exploratory report on the class of applications that can benefit most from an information centric approach. - Implementation of a short-listed application along with necessary enhancements to core ICN capabilities to make it possible. - A report on the implementation experience
Master's degree, Ph.D.	Research	15	Optimizing Content Access in Data Centers using Information Centric Networking Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) Information Centric Networking (ICN) is an emerging paradigm in the design of future internet. It has received significant support in the recent past and leading academic and research labs are actively driving research in this space. This project will explore the benefits that ICN brings to real-time content access within large distributed data centers. In particular we will look at HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) and see how ICN constructs can be leveraged to improve HDFS performance. Deliverables: - Report describing key characteristics of HDFS and providing an analysis of how HDFS-ICN can provide an improved performance - Prototype implementation of suggestions from the report and quantitative measurement of the performance. - Report on the implementation
Master's degree, Ph.D.	Research	15	Application Specific Networks using Software Defined Networks (SDN) Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) Software Defined Networks (SDN) is an emerging approach to separate the networking control plane from the forwarding plane. It leads to creation of intelligent networks - that are flexible, adaptive and scalable to meet the changing needs of businesses. Openflow has been emerging as the most popular approach towards SDN. The project looks at an emerging use case for SDN viz. Application specific networks. SDN can enable service providers to offer enterprise customers on-demand access to network resources tuned to the enterprise's application specific needs. The intern will be involved in building a proof-of-concept implementation of application specific networks over SDN for a specific industry segment. It involves defining the network-based requirements for an industry specific application implementation on an SDN enabled network, development of a proof-of-concept application on top and demonstrating the power of SDN. Deliverables: - A report detailing the identified industry application and the derived network requirements. - Complete Proof-of-concept application running on top of SDN Report on the implementation
Master's degree, Ph.D.	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 having multiple degradation paths. When collected degradation data is observed, it is often not known which degradation model is applicable. This project has to propose non-parametric inference methods for modeling degradation data and applying this methodology to ILI data collected in pipeline integrity management. Results with different degradation models will have to be compared to come up with a generalized approach. The models will differ with the kind of systems (series parallel, bridge) and domains (Oil & Gas, Aircraft) assumed for analysis.
Bachelors, Masters, Ph.D.	Research	12	Drug Repurposing Industry: Retail, CPG, Logistics and Life Sciences Location: Bangalore (India) This project aims at coming up with an analytical workbench that provides early indication area for Drug Repurposing. The focus will be on transcriptome and MoA based model. This will help pharma companies bring back their shelved/ released drugs at a lower cost.
Ph.D.	Research	15	Humor and Leader Effectiveness 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 on-going efforts to examine leadership characteristics or dimensions that impact leader effectiveness, we are focusing on the role of humor in leadership, an attribute, many successful leaders are believed to possess. Specifically, the research project would focus on the effects of humor (direct and indirect) on follower perceptions (trust, self-efficacy, intention to leave) of a leader, and the leaders performance (attrition, revenue productivity, quality of work). Further, interns will study the role of organizational context and culture on the effectiveness of using humor. The role requires the ability to do extensive literature reviews around the topic, aid data collection, and analyze data collected. The deliverable would include a literature review summary table on the topic, analysis of collected data, and as an end product a scholarly conference symposium paper. To accomplish these deliverables the intern would use library and internet search engines, books, and other journal/ periodicals as necessary. The intern would require a laptop and any software such as SPSS or AMOS that helps with analyzing data. Access to the Internet and Outlook is required.
MBA	Research	16	Leveraging Business Value from Global Innovation Communities Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Chennai (India) The project involves studying enthusiast communities (around creativity and innovation) across the world and extract key insights into how they have managed sustenance, co-creation and exponentially increased business value.
Bachelor's degree, Master's degree	Research/ Development	12	Project iCirrus: Application QoS and Optimal Resource Management in Virtualized Environments Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) Hardware virtualization technique facilitates sharing computing infrastructure with multiple applications and enables efficient performance and security. Today, virtualization technology has made rapid progress, and has rendered overhead costs negligible. Resource allocation and provisioning in virtualized infrastructure has undergone a paradigm shift compared to traditional deployments. This presents several opportunities for better infrastructure utilization, power management and secure multi-tenancy using technologies such as dynamic capacity addition, live migrations, and power modes and trusted computing extensions. Several internship projects are related to iCirrus. The projects outcome is used to build a set of analysis and assistance tools in the following areas: • Resource allocation • Optimal application placement that satisfies QoS constraints • Capacity planning • VM sizing These projects will use mathematical optimization, simulation and analytical model for devising computing resource allocation and application QoS management techniques for virtualized infrastructure.
Bachelor's degree, Master's degree	Research/ Development	12	A Decision Support System for Employees Visiting In-house General Physician Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) The work flow of the proposed system functions as follows: Employee logs in to schedule an appointment with in-house general physician; he/ she selects one or more disease from the list; he/ she is presented with a set of questions related to the disease; once the employee answers queries first level assessment of employee's condition is displayed and employee can schedule an appointment. When the employee visits the doctor, the physician retrieves details from the system and asks a few more questions and provides prescription. The doctor can also update his/ her observation about the patient online. The mains parts of the project include: • Retrieving decision trees for common diseases from medical knowledge made available in public domain • Coding the decision tree as rules (e.g. CLIPS rules) • Integrating a rules engine like CLIPS with Ruby on rails/ Perl/ PHP • Generating first level assessment report on the patient from knowledge base codified as rules. This process follows submission of answers pertaining to disease related queries • Developing web interface for doctor as well as employee
Master's degree	Research/ Development	08	Framework for Project Management Configuration for Distributed Projects Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) Distributed software projects bring in attendant challenges in multiple areas which have a bearing on the overall risk profile of the project. This project aims to develop a framework that can recommend a project management configuration for a given project. This will help project managers to plan the geography and timezone dispersions across locations in the right manner to increase chances of overall effectiveness.
Bachelor's degree, Master's degree, Ph.D.	Research/ Development	12	Tool Based Decision Support for Preventive Software Maintenance Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) In this era of large software running into millions of lines of code. It is not possible to thoroughly test the software before release. 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 the concept tool for the same. This is a research project which will deliver proof of concept implementation.
Master's degree, Ph.D.	Research/ Development	24	Tracking Effects of Design Decisions on Design Artifacts Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) A software system is said to be well designed if it can justify the choice of being best possible alternative at all concerns. A preliminary requirement to this is to know all the design decisions taken during the course of refinement (from conceptual to implementable models) and to be able to identify the outcome of each decision. Since design refinement is an iterative activity, designers lose track of both design decisions and changes to artifacts resulting by their decisions. This leads to a complex and unstable design due to duplicate and conflicting or invalidating changes. Hence, a good design process needs a means to capture design decisions and trace specific changes to each element in design artifacts (models) with respect to each decision. Research in the domain of design decision has led to interesting knowledge management solutions to manage varied decisions and its rationales. The focus of this project is primarily to link decision models with design models. Defining this as a traceability problem, the scope of this project is to establish traceability between each decision and corresponding changes in design artifacts. Furthermore, for any open system software development OOAD is prime, we limit design artifacts to UML models such that a UML class diagram is used for conceptual model and is further refined. Adopting a more formal approach, we choose to perform refinement based on model transformations using QVT. Also, as we don't subscribe to any decision model, a suitable design decision model preferably based on OMT would best suite model transformation approach. However, though part of the problem is to manage decisions, we would like to restrict to only choosing a decision model and not define a decision management solution.
Bachelor's degree, Master's degree, Ph.D.	Research/ Development	12	Automated Identification of Similar-fix Opportunities Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) In large complex business applications, considerable portion of similar code are dispersed across multiple files and packages. If a bug is identified in a portion of the code, it is likely that an identical bug exists in the other similar code portions. This happens when the code similarity is not explicit to developers thus they tend to miss out on fixing similar bug in other files. The goal of this project is to automatically detect locations in code where similar bug fix needs to be performed. This is a research project and the expected output should be a proof of concept implementation.
Bachelor's degree, Master's degree, MBA, Ph.D.	Research/ Development	24	Quantitative Techniques for Preventive Software Maintenance Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) The majority of software maintenance work is reactive in nature. In reactive maintenance, 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 around 40K USD. Therefore, there is a need to focus on prevention of bugs, so that we could prevent failures 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 also include, failure and bug prediction, regression testing, software rejuvenation, architecture conformance, and knowledge engineering techniques. These techniques utilize the past information available on the application like version histories, bug histories, and documentation to provide solutions that identify and/or estimate the occurrence of failures. As a step towards quantifying the Preventive Maintenance techniques and measures, our research aims to build a novel software quality metric called 'The 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 deployment.
Master's degree, Ph.D.	Research/ Development	12	Meta-model Based Multi-view Consistency Checking Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) In the MDD and MDA-based approaches of development, the primary artifacts are models. Therefore, ensuring the correctness of such models is important in maintaining the quality of the final application. Meta-models play an important role in such scenarios. Meta-models precisely define the constructs and underlying well-formed rules for modeling languages. They provide a framework, which can be used to check consistency of models, and detect anomalies between valid and invalid instances of models. Since UML models make use of multiple diagrams presenting different views of systems one needs to check the correctness of each diagram, and also the consistency of different views. Problems that need to be addressed are Meta-model conformance and Multi-view consistency checking. While the meta-model conformance checks whether an instance of a model obeys all the constraints in a model, multi-view consistency verifies the consistency of different views of a model. Meta-model based development offers a promising way of managing the complexity of industrial scale software by describing a system in terms of different views. These views can then be described as instances of a single meta-model. Such views are usually not disjoint and it is essential that they are shown to be consistent. A weakness of meta-modeling tools is the lack of support for describing the behavior of models, as this is central to demonstrating the consistency of views. We have earlier modeled and solved the problem of checking meta-model conformance using a constraint solving oriented approach. In the present work, we would like to use the same framework to perform the consistency checking of views of UML models.
Master's degree, Ph.D.	Research/ Development	12	Conformance Checking of Business Processes Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) Process aware information systems are widely used these days. These information systems monitor the process, record transaction logs and audit trails in the form of event logs. Simultaneously, many of these systems maintain reference models of processes. These reference models can predict the behavior of systems thus one needs to address an important problem. The concern is whether these event logs match/fit the reference process. This problem is more commonly known as ``conformance checking of processes''. In this work we would like to tackle this problem using concepts from Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP), which facilitates automated analysis using FDR model checker.
Master's degree, Ph.D.	Research/ Development	12	Checking Complexity of BPM Processes Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) The Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI) has come out with a standard Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) for capturing pictorial representation of business processes, which is widely adopted by the industries for use in the early phases of systems development. BPMN defines a Business Process Diagram (BPD) (also called BPM process P) which is based on flowchart related ideas, and provides a graphical notation for business process modeling using objects like nodes, edges etc. An underlying formal representation of these processes can be provided in terms of petri nets and workflow nets. One can formulate trace/language inclusion and trace/language equivalence problem (in the domain of petri nets) for these BPMN processes. In this project we pursue theoretical problems related to complexity of a couple of decision problems related to trace equivalent problems for business processes. The final deliverables are problem solution, final presentation (.ppt file) and a consolidated report.
Master's degree, Ph.D.	Research/ Development	12	An Authoring of Requirements Constrained by Ontology Extracted from domain artifacts Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) Requirements engineering is the branch of software engineering which deals with proper designing of functions and constraints of software systems. It is believed that the final quality of software systems delivered depends upon the requirements on which the software is built. Requirements elicitation is a critical part in any software development cycle. Any error that creeps in this stage can prove disastrous if detected in later parts of the development. There can be significant performance improvements as well as the opportunities for offering better correctness guarantees in downstream requirements engineering steps, if the knowledge implicit in domain artifacts is leveraged. In this project, we expect to extract such hidden knowledge from artifacts in a suitable way to elicit requirements so that we minimize the requirements deviations and inconsistencies.
Bachelor's, Master's	Research/ Development	12	Code Clone Detection Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) Code duplication or copying code fragments for reuse with or without modifications and code clone are very common problems across majority of the software projects. This augmented as internet made the code sharing and search much easier. In our current study, we explore the different techniques for clone detection with respect to the source code and also the regular text documents.
Bachelor's degree, Master's degree	Research/ Development	12	HTML5 Based Clone Detection Workbench Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) Many clone detection strategies are available in literature based on the domain and the approach one adapts for the problem. In the current work, clone detection techniques are applied to source code analysis for finding similar code etc. In this project, the work bench will be created where in the users can submit the code and check for clones and create HTML5 reports.
Master's degree, Ph.D.	Research/ Development	12	Exploration into Agile and Distributed Agile Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) Exploration into current agile trends with special focus on understanding the challenges of and enabling successful Agile (and Distributed Agile) projects that cover planning, tracking, execution, communication, coordination and collaboration. This project may also involve comparison and analyses of different agile models, agile principles and applicability in large outsourcing projects, comparison of Agile methods and practices with conventional, open source and lean methods of development, standards and practices of Agile in the context of multi-sourcing and multi- location large software developments. This covers following deliverables such as comprehensive literature analysis of agile / distributed agile, surveys of Agile projects along with detailed findings and reports, recommendations and analyses on new / improved processes, tools and policies.
Bachelor's degree, Master's degree , Ph.D.	Research/ Development	12	Automated Identification of Bug Inducing 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.
Master's degree	Research/ Development	24	Value Based Software Engineering Integration with CMM Project Process Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) CMM has established Project Process Standards enabling software companies to churn out software efficiently. The process of gathering requirements to delivering the software and thereafter maintaining it is established with a well-defined process which is continuously improved as well. The value notion associated with various activities in the defined CMM process is often missing. Knowing the value will in fact help improve or tailor project processes and deliver best outcome to both the project delivery teams as well as the customer. This project explores how value based software engineering can be combined with existing CMM project processes of Infosys and showcase the benefits thus gained.
Bachelor's degree, Master's degree, MBA, Ph.D.	Research/ Development	16	Development of Methodology to Identify the Effect of Promotions in CPG Industry Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) The effect of promotions on the sales of a product is determined by decomposing the total sales volume into base sales volume and incremental sales volume. The method of determining base sales volume from total sales volume is a complex process in the context of CPG industry. The proposed methodology does decomposition of total sales volume into base sales volume and incremental sales volume by utilizing the information available in the percentage of sales through stores not participating in the promotional activities and non-promotion price. This is followed by tweaking of input values for the independent variables to determine the base sales volume from the total sales volume. The existing methods considers only time series data and estimate the base sales volume, this work deviates from the common approach and uses a powerful approach to decompose the base sales volume from the total sales volume.
Bachelor's degree	Research/ Development	21	Dynamic Pricing Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) Dynamic pricing can help the airline pricing strategy. This work aims to develop a robust pricing strategy to maximize airline revenue.
Bachelor's degree, Master's degree, MBA	Research/ Development	12	Comparative Study of Association Rule Mining on Transactional Data using Weka Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) Retaining old customers is the current preferred trend more than attracting new customers. Organizations are adopting different strategies to facilitate their customers in variety of ways, so that the customers keep on buying from them. Association Rule Mining (ARM) is a particular kind of data mining problem for large set of multidimensional data point. Association Rule Mining (ARM) is one of the strategies that have two-fold advantages to the business organization after applying the basket analysis. 1) It helps customers get all the related items from one place and that save their time from visiting different places of the store. 2) It helps organization in selling of items by placing items closer that are sold together. Different researchers have provided different algorithms for ARM and implemented in different data mining tools that helps user to properly and efficiently achieve their objectives. In this project we try to analyze or bring out a comparative study between some of the existing data mining tools.
Bachelor's degree, Master's degree	Research/ Development	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 very specialized algorithms harness the TFLOP/PFLOP power of multi-core /GPGPU. However, writing such algorithms are not easy. 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 project related to Marple. Outcome of these projects will be used to build a set of design that 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 degree, Master's degree	Research/ Development	12	Project Marple - Application Development using Multicore and GPU platform Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) This work includes building applications specific to a domain that can optimally harness the multi-core and GPU power. We specifically intend to build applications that have graphics heavy processing.
Masters, MBA, Ph.D.	Research/ Development	16	Development of algorithms for solving freight routing problem Industry: Infosys Labs Location: BANGALORE (India) The freight routing problem (FRP) finds a significant place in the context of logistics and distribution management domain. FRP is a real-life problem and it has to be solved to determine the best routing for shipments from an origin to a destination considering preference set by the user, user-defined conditions and system-defined conditions. For example, a shipment has to be start from some location in India and the shipment should reach Israel. The system should generate the best possible route by considering the conditions set by the user such as: - Shipment should not pass through the Ports located in Arabian Sea - Shipment can take any mode to reach the destination, but the shipment may change the mode of transport only one, say from ocean to land or vice versa, and so on The FRP is constrained by time windows, time schedules of other modes of transports (rail, trucks), availability of equipment (cranes, chassis, etc.), compliance of local governing laws, and so on. The objective is to determine the best route plans for each shipment requests based on the measure selected by the user. Typical measures such as shipment time, cost of transportation, etc., can be used to determine and rank the best possible routes. The FRP is a hard problem to solve, hence heuristic algorithm need to be developed to solve this class of problem.
Master's degree, MBA, Ph.D.	Research/ Development	12	Application of Association Rule Mining Techniques to Enhance Web Services and Web Mining Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) Association rule mining (ARM) attempts to discover the hidden relationship between products based on the transactions stored in large datasets. Generally, the relationships among the products are expressed as rules. These rules are framed based on the affinity among entities present in the transactions. Apriori and frequent pattern growth are frequently used algorithms to mine rules from the large database. In this project, the focus is on applying ARM techniques to enhance web services and web mining with better data management in the areas of storage and search facilities where the techniques have a lot of potential.
MBA, Ph.D.	Research/ Development	16	Opponents Modeling Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) This project aims to use stochastic modeling based approaches to predict corporate opponents behavior.
Bachelor's degree, Master's degree, MBA, Ph.D.	Research/ Development	12	Multi-modal Website Access Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) Multi-modal website access refers to interactions with websites using multiple senses such as touch, vision and voice. It transgresses contemporary technologies such as Graphical User Interface (GUI) that facilitate interactions with a single sensory method such as touch or voice or vision. It is considered an evolution of interaction methods for the web in the future. While there are technological limitations that exist for such interactions to be developed, there are also challenges in the website development technologies as well as the development processes that pose a problem for realization of such interaction methods. This project includes understanding the state-of-the-art in multi-modal access technologies, business and technology landscape, present developments and limitations concerning multi-modal access. The second part of the project will include a technology demonstrator which integrates at least two means of interaction with a website.
Bachelor's degree, Master's degree	Research/ Development	16	Taxonomy of Modern Web-based Attacks with Proof of Concepts Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Hyderabad (India) The goal of this project is to classify the web attacks which modern Web 2.0 applications and technologies such as JavaScript, AJAX, REST, and HTML5 could be vulnerable to. While literature is available on some of the previous classifications, the pace of evolution of new technologies provide a grand challenge and the need to design a robust taxonomy which can be more scientific. For example, XSS is known since ages, but newer methods such as exploiting unexploitable XSS using HTML5 Drag/ Drop API needs to be classified too. Based on the type of classification, proof of concepts may also be required to be developed. The key learning is not only about understanding how hackers exploit web applications, but also about providing efficient defense mechanisms based on the classification of attacks.
Master's degree, Ph.D.	Research/ Development	10	Generation of Use Case Models from Requirements Specifications Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Mysore (India) The primary 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. This project aims to address the issue of different or inconsistent outcomes by developing methods to 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 degree, MBA	Research/ Development	12	Evaluation Framework for Institutional Voids Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Pune (India) The interns will study the nature of the institutional voids in emerging economies with emphasis on how their relevance and intensity could be measured for a particular geography and business.
Master's degree, MBA, Ph.D.	Research/ Development	12	Evaluation Framework for Market DNA Compliance Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Pune (India) The intern will create a framework to assess an organization's ability to understand and operate in a country, with primary focus on India and China.
Master's degree, MBA, Ph.D.	Research/ Development	10	Evaluation Framework for Low Resource Intensity Readiness Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Pune (India) The intern will create a framework to evaluate an organization's readiness to adopt low resource Intensive approaches to product or service design and delivery.
Masters, MBA, Ph.D.	Research/ Development	10	Evaluation Framework for Reverse Innovation Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Pune (India) The intern will create a framework to evaluate an organization's readiness for reverse innovation.
Master's degree, MBA, Ph.D.	Research/ Development	10	Content and Services in Vernacular Languages Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Pune (India) The intern will explore the challenges and opportunities for making content and services available in vernacular languages on mobile devices in emerging economies.
Bachelor's degree, Master's degree	Research/ Development	10	Usage Behaviour Modeling Tool Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Pune (India) Intended usage assumptions and usage data provide expected and actual behaviour of software component. Intended usage assumptions are quantitative and qualitative assumptions about the expected use of a component that may include frequency of occurrence of each operation and constraints on the operations and their parameters. The intended usage can be described in natural language, charts, diagrams, tables, formal specifications or using ordered sequences of operations. Usage data consists of traces from execution of a previous version of the component, a prototype, an actual implementation, or a simulation. The aim of this project is to develop a tool support to generate usage behavior models using intended usage assumptions and usage data.
Bachelor's degree, Master's degree	Research/ Development	10	Java Test Oracle Tool Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Pune (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 a prototype tool support to generate test oracle using popular methods.
Bachelor's degree, Master's degree	Research/ Development	10	Empirical Evaluation of Software Testing Techniques Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Pune (India) It is difficult to choose an appropriate testing technique though there are many testing techniques such as black box and white box available for literature. Some of them are developed keeping in mind the different situations and environments while some are developed for specific requirements. Determining effective testing techniques is the need of the hour. This project aims at forming effective software testing techniques by an empirical evaluation.
Master's degree, Ph.D.	Research/ Development	10	Requirements Specification for Distributed Agile Development Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Pune (India) In distributed development, software development teams are often geographically distributed from their customers and end users. The demand for distributed development is on the rise due to high travel costs, local availability of skilled technical staff and the motivating factor is the desire to exploit a 24-hour work day. Distributed development with Agile process model may reduce production time. However, distributed development creates extensive communication and coordination challenges on the effectiveness of requirements engineering. A main challenge of 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, high level modeling, requirements negotiation and manage teams that are not just distributed geographically but also 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 distributed working environment.
Bachelor's degree, Master's degree	Research/ Development	10	Real Time Context Aware Communication Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Pune (India) Software development organizations have started adopting Follow-the-Sun (FTS) approach to deliver software products quickly. FTS is an approach in which software development work is done around the clock across time zones. The software development teams are geographically distributed across different time zones, the teams may be from different organizations, and different work cultures. To support express delivery of software products, there is a need to devise techniques to reduce communication time between teams when passing on tasks. The main aim of this project is to develop and generate automatic real time context aware communication from day-to-day software development tasks such as coding and testing and use them in distributed development and other development environments.
Master's degree, Ph.D.	Research/ Development	12	Authoring of Requirements Constrained by Ontology Extracted from Domain Artifacts Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) Requirements engineering is the branch of software engineering that deals with proper designing of functions and constraints of software systems. Requirements elicitation is a critical part in any software development cycle. It is believed that the final quality of software systems delivered depends upon the requirements on which the software is built. Any error that creeps in at this stage can prove disastrous if detected in later parts of the development cycle. There can be significant performance improvements by leveraging on knowledge implicit in domain artifacts. This project aims at extracting such hidden knowledge from artifacts in a way so as to elicit requirements with minimal deviations and inconsistencies.
Bachelor's degree, Master's degree, MBA, Ph.D	Risk Assessment	10	Corporate Social Sustainability Risk Assessment Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) For businesses to be sustainable in the future, they need to address not just economic sustainability but also environmental and social sustainability. From the perspective of social sustainability, an organization needs to engage with local communities, local governments, activist organizations and society to understand and address the social and environmental impact of its operations in a region and any ensuing risk to business. This project aims to create a social risk assessment framework for organizations that entails identifying information that warrants a detailed study, identifying different sources for information, employing multiple channels to capture information (people, technology, and media) and tapping information to compute risk.
Master's degree, MBA	Security	16	Security Framework for Mobile Applications Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Hyderabad (India) In this project, an in-depth analysis will be conducted of the current situation enterprises are faced with in the mobile arena, from a security as well as from a management perspective. Interns will also present a framework offering solutions for the development of secure mobile business applications that takes into account the need for strong security credentials. The framework may consist of software and abstractions that allow for the separation of the core business logic from the security logic in applications. Security management instruments in the form of enforceable enterprise policies may be defined targeting security and trust-related deployment, configuration of mobile devices and business applications.
Master's degree, MBA, Ph.D.	Security	16	Security Control Evaluation Method for Cloud Environment Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Hyderabad (India) In a multitenant environment, companies hosting data in a single environment are unsure about the security of data management practices on a day-to-day basis. Cloud providers use management tools to have complete view of performances and security control status of customer data. However, reports are not always shared with cloud customers. It is important from customers' point of view to have a more comprehensive snapshot of his security control status of data within the cloud. This concern becomes more crucial when customers use more than one cloud service and want readily available and demonstrable control capabilities with respect to confidentiality, integrity and availability. In all cases, responsibility of ensuring the protection of end-users' data lies with the cloud service company. Interns must propose a security evaluation model and dashboard useful for cloud customers to have a realistic view of their security posture in a cloud environment.
Master's degree, MBA, Ph.D.	Social Networking	12	Community Discovery in Online Social Networks Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) A social system is composed of people who interact and mutually influence each other’s behavior and are 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. Communities are social networks that require a sensible decomposition of the graph into sub-graphs, where some nodes in each sub-graph have more to do with each other than with outsiders. This way community structures and overlapping structures can be detected.
Master's degree, Ph.D.	Social Networking	12	Social Network Visualisation 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 degree, Ph.D.	Social Networking	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 (e.g., brand, ad, games, etc.) they like and connects different users with common interests. This graph/model will enable linking of a user to services of his interest and connect different users with common interests. This type of model would reveal many useful insights like user- user relations, use - brand relations, and brand - brand relations. These kinds of insights might: (i) Help companies to improve the marketing of their products toward specific group of people like users with loyalty to a brand. (ii) Assist social network site to better targeting online services (advertisements, etc.)
Master's degree, MBA, Ph.D.	Social Networking	12	Social Movements and the Role of Social Media Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) Social movements seen in the Middle East has 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 degree, MBA, Ph.D.	Social Networking	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 factors and the interaction with peer groups dynamically, and in real time. This project will explore the usage of sensor data to enhance social network data analytics.
Master's degree, Ph.D.	Social Networking	12	Authentication Techniques for Social Networking Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) As businesses are shifting towards web based platform the challenge of granting secure access to those systems are also increasing. The intention of this work is to analyze the existing social networking sites authentication schemes to suggest the improvements and implement them.
Master's degree, MBA, Ph.D.	Social Networking	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 on enterprises wanting to leverage social networks to draw insights and inferences on user preferences as well as 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, strength of interactions, and emergence of sub-groups. This project will explore optimum models to identify influencers in Social Networks.
MBA	Social Networking	12	Innovation Enthusiasts Community - Service Offering Creation to Clients Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Chennai (India) Create a new service offering to clients based on the existing Innovation Enthusiasts community platform and 4C framework within the organization.
Master' s degree, Ph.D.	Social Networking	16	Privacy Issues in Online Social Networks Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Hyderabad (India) Online Social Networks (OSN) such as Facebook, MySpace and Google+ allow their users to create profiles based on their personal information and interests and establish social relationships with other users with similar interests. OSN have become immensely popular and the users of OSNs include people cutting across geographic locations and age groups. However, there are concerns about the privacy of the personal information that is published on the OSN websites and stored on servers. This project aims to analyze the privacy features in the existing OSNs and suggest improvements or alternate frameworks for OSNs if required. Specifically, we will analyze if current OSNs allow one-to-one and/ or group communication between members of the OSN in an off-the-record manner much like the real world conversation without compromising the privacy of communication. Cryptographic techniques like privacy-preserving group communication protocols will be applied if needed.
Master's degree	Social Networking	24	Expanding on Cheerkut - The Social Network of FSI STAR Industry: Financial Services and Insurance Location: Bangalore (India) FSI STAR is the architecture group of FSI in Infosys. We identified Social media and RIA as two of the five trends for 2011-12 and based on this finding we have developed a social networking platform. This instep project has three main objectives: - Cheerkut is the social networking application for the unit and is currently being developed/ maintained by six-member team. Already live, this project aims to enhance the platform for - Micro Blogging, Cloud Migration, Application Portal Framework, and incorporate RIA features - Extend the study on Web2.0 applications in Infosys. Based on a study conducted last year, a conclusion was drawn as to what is needed to make community building in closed organizations a success - Develop a good moderation mechanism based on community rules for wider adoption
MBA	Solution Development	10	Solution Creation in GRC/ ERM Space Industry: Finacle Location: Bangalore (India) Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC), Enterprise GRC, and IT GRC are evolving areas in the Risk and Compliance landscape. Many products and platforms available in the market cater to different parts in the GRC space. The project focuses on research and solution creation in the ERM/ GRC space. Deliverables: - Complete ERM/ GRC solution offering roadmap for Risk and Compliance practice within FSI - Solution creation in specific sub-areas of ERM/ GRC space based on existing capabilities within FSI - Recommendation for key products in the Risk and Compliance space for collaborations and capability building, which complement/ enhance the ERM/ GRC solution offering
MBA	Strategy	10	Benchmark Finacle Integration Framework & Strategy with Industry and Competitors Industry: Finacle Location: Bangalore (India) Benchmark Finacle Integration Framework & Strategy with industry and competitors. Validate the integration strategy and help build a robust partner strategy.
Ph.D.	Strategy	18	Strategy Execution and Value Creation Industry: Infosys Leadership Institute Location: Mysore (India) In keeping with ILI's evidence-based approach to leader development, ILI conducts scientific research to improve leader effectiveness and help leaders positively impact business outcomes. In the context of business outcomes, the key strategy of the company is to be a strategic partner to our clients and help them create or increase business value. This research project focuses on the strategy-execution efficacy at Infosys and its impact on client business value. The study will look at various internal and external factors that might affect strategy execution and business value. The role requires the ability perform extensive literature reviews around the topic, aid data collection, and analyze the data collected. Deliverables: - Literature review summary table on the topic - Analysis of collected data - As an end product, a scholarly conference symposium paper To accomplish these deliverables the intern would use library and internet search engines, books, and other journal/ periodicals as necessary. The intern would require a laptop and any software such as SPSS or AMOS that helps with data analysis. Access to the Internet and Outlook is critical.
Bachelor's and Master's degree, MBA, Ph.D.	Strategy	08	Strategy for Serving Japanese Markets: Client from China Industry: Financial Services and Insurance Location: Shanghai (China) The project focuses on researching the market for talent pool availability and other value propositions China has to offer, in order to serve Japanese customers more efficiently. Key Deliverable: Provide recommendations to Infosys with respect to business strategies required to serve Japanese clients from China.
MBA	Strategy	12	Vision Implementation Industry: Financial Services and Insurance Location: Bangalore (India) The candidate must be able to create a concrete roadmap for the two important tenets of the account vision - Be a Transformation Partner and Be a Thought Leader. With over 1000 people across multiple geographies, the account is currently one of the largest within Infosys. The intern should be able to assimilate data from various account personnel, existing documentation, other accounts, and industry best practices to help create a measurable and clear roadmap, with action items and milestones.
MBA	Strategy	08	Blue Ocean Strategy for RCL - China Industry: Retail, CPG, Logistics and Life Sciences Location: Shanghai (China) This project will involve defining Infosys RCL’s (Retail, Consumer Packaged Goods and Logistics) China strategy using the Blue Ocean Framework. The end result would be a blueprint to define entry into China market using appropriate mix of solutions and services. It will form the basis of Infosys RCL’s future growth in China. The project aims at answering the following questions - What are the best practices from successful Chinese companies that can be implemented at Infosys? What does it take to successfully work with local business? Market Analysis in the RCL space; Solutions required for the Chinese market; also how to adopt Infosys’ internal solutions to China; Candidates must be familiar with all elements of strategy (Porter, Low Cost, Value Added, Mintzberg, and Blue Ocean). They must be able to provide a third party viewpoint and challenge existing business strategies to define how a Blue Ocean can be created in China.
Master's degree, MBA	Supply Chain Management	12	Global Traceability Offerings for Supply Chain Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) Real time traceability of goods and control of their movements is becoming a critical need in the expanding global supply chain. Authentication, product recall, logistics management, combating counterfeits, and supply chain optimization are just few examples of how the supply chain can be improved. The ability to track the movement, trace the origin and make real-time information flow upstream and downstream is associated with improvements in operational performance, product quality, safety and customer experience that will differentiate companies who are looking to expand their business. It requires all participants involved in the chain of supply to be part of the traceability system to enhance the speed and efficiency of traceability systems. Increasingly, consumers, retailers, customers, suppliers, and regulators are interested in tracking food through the supply chain back to its origin. This project is therefore aimed at identifying niche technology and solution offerings for Global Traceability in supply chain. The key deliverables include the following, but not limited to: 1. Study the key traceability principles and enabling technology trends 2. Key business outcomes of real-time traceability implementation 3. Study the technology challenges of implementation- unique identification, mass serialization, global standards, real time data transfer, traceability data integration etc. 4. Compare the technologies based on features and applications 5. Summarize the applications across industry sectors- with case studies 6. Futuristic analysis on the impact of regulations and policies across industry
MBA	Supply Chain Management	15	Identifying External Changes and their Effects on Future Supply Chains Industry: Infosys Labs Location: Bangalore (India) • Identifying key trends external to the organization that has huge impact on the supply chains • Finding out co-relation between the external events • Identifying and collating list of probable response from organization in different industry sectors when such an event materializes
MBA	Supply Chain Management	08	Digitization in Supply Chain Industry: Retail, CPG, Logistics, and Life Sciences Location: Bangalore (India) The project aims to study digitization of supply chain, different strategies employed and benefits derived.
Bachelor's degree, Master's degree, MBA	Testing	12	Performance Testing - Importance of Planning Phase Industry: Independent Validation Solutions Location: Pune (India) As part of the project, the intern will identify and analyze the planning phase of performance testing which is a vital phases in the performance testing cycle. A typical performance test cycle can be divided into five phases: planning, creating scenarios, running scenarios, analyzing results and tuning systems. One of the vital factors behind any successful performance testing is an effective planning process. The primary reason for ignorance in the planning phase leading to failed performance test is lack of knowledge about the different planning aspects that can yield improved and better performance results. The intern will develop a performance framework which would define and lay out the recommendations for performance testing.
Bachelor's degree, Master's degree, MBA, Ph.D.	Testing	08	Understanding Key China IT Local Outsourcing Vendors through SWOT Analysis Industry: Independent Validation Solutions Location: Shanghai (China) The project aims at understanding the local outsourcing vendors’ situation in China with respect to Head Count, Revenue, Operating Margins Range Strategy and Challenges. The project includes SWOT analyzing local vendors and making recommendations to Infosys that will help grow business in local market.