IBSE Post-baccalaurate Fellowships
IBSE offers Post-baccalaureate Fellowships to exceptional graduates, who are desirous of pursuing a 1-2 year research internship at the interface of biology and engineering at IBSE, IIT Madras.
Eligibility
- Candidates must have completed their Bachelor’s degree within the last two years
- Candidates must have demonstrated academic excellence throughout their undergraduate
Shortlisting Criteria
- Academic pedigree, performance in Bachelor’s degree
- Proficiency in programming (high-level languages, preferably Python/R/MATLAB)
- Contribution to open-source projects will be a plus
Benefits
- Work in a highly interdisciplinary environment, with eminent faculty in Systems Biology and Data Science
- Monthly fellowship of ₹40,000 (consolidated)
- Access to state-of-the-art high-performance CPU/GPU computing infrastructure
- Funds to attend a national conference every year
- Regular colloquia by international experts and workshops
Areas of Research
- Application of systems genetics approaches in India specific clinical datasets
- Network and community detection in multi-omic data
- Metabolic modelling for diseases
- Application of Machine Learning algorithms in clinical data
- Process analytics and systems theory for metabolic modelling and optimisation
- Application of NLP in biological data analysis
Application
- Apply to ibse.projects@gmail.com with following details:
- Latest CV describing your academic record, list of programming languages known, level of proficiency and certification if any (attach a single PDF or link to Dropbox/Google Drive/OneDrive)
- A short research proposal (300-500 words) listing preferred research areas
- IBSE Faculty Mentors (ibse.iitm.ac.in/ibse/people/) you are interested in
- Deadline for application: Rolling; applicants will be screened and invited for interviews/presentations on a regular basis