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Among the many ways life is changing due to the pandemic is the impact on International Students in the USA. We have put together a program to assist students gain professional experience. Industry mentors from all over the USA and multiple industries have signed up to mentor students in delivering an industrial strength product, similar to an internship experience in a organization !
The opportunity for students and mentors is huge. There are over 1,000,000 international students impacted by this situation. We are collaborating with SEWA International USA, an organization that has done great work since 2003, in disaster relief, education and is currently supporting many activities in response to COVID-19.
Summer 2020 internship cohort (highlights)
10+ students went through the internship experience during June-Sept 2020.
Participating students were from North Eastern University, University of Washington, Iowa State University, New Jersey Institute of Technology and University of Dayton
The cohort included students from multiple disciplines like Computer Science, Data Analytics Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Network Communications etc.
Volunteer mentors from Amazon, Costco, CoreStack, iLink and Nutanix guided the students on specific projects*
* These were not company projects.
Internship Projects - Summer 2020
Internship Projects - Summer 2020
Student
Mentor
Project
Ameya Sandim
Iowa State University
M.S Computer Science
Parul C, Ankur Rastogi
CoreStack, Amazon
Build policies for WAF ( well architected frameworks) in AWS. There are about 233 controls for this we need to build policies for various AWS services. Python/Jason expertise will be needed.
Charchit Shukla
Iowa State University
M.S Industrial Engineering
Michael Sunderland
Costco Wholesale
Aggregate usage data and environmental features to compute sustainability metrics for various operating units across the country. This would enable the company to build a dashboard of performance and provide insights into improving the sustainability efforts .
Chetna Khanna
Northeastern University
M.S Data Analytics Engineering
Parag Kulkarni
Nutanix
A project around building a recommendation or guided selling engine as a service that can be plugged into a quoting system that will look at the products been quoted and nudge the quote creator(Sales Rep) towards higher margins and lower discounts. If possible the engine will also provide recommendations around cross-sell and up-sell. The recommendation engine will use attributes like historical sales data, seasonality, sales rep theater/region etc to provide these recommendations.
Dimple Bapna
Northeastern University
M.S Data Analytics Engineering
Rakesh Malakar
Costco Wholesale
Raghuram Anur Srinivas
Northeastern University
M.S Data Analytics Engineering
Parag Kulkarni
Nutanix
A project around building a recommendation or guided selling engine as a service that can be plugged into a quoting system that will look at the products been quoted and nudge the quote creator(Sales Rep) towards higher margins and lower discounts. If possible the engine will also provide recommendations around cross-sell and up-sell. The recommendation engine will use attributes like historical sales data, seasonality, sales rep theater/region etc to provide these recommendations.
Ratnamani Vanisetti
University Of Houston
M.S Network Communications
Parul C, Ankur Rastogi
CoreStack, Amazon
Build policies for WAF ( well architected frameworks) in AWS. There are about 233 controls for this we need to build policies for various AWS services. Python/Jason expertise will be needed.
Soumyajeet Patra
Northeastern University
M.S Data Analytics Engineering
Rakesh Malakar
Costco Wholesale
Vibhu Sharma
University of Dayton
M.S Mechanical Engineering
Michael Sunderland
Costco Wholesale
Aggregate usage data and environmental features to compute sustaibility metrics for various operating units across the country. This would enable the company to build a dashboard of performance and provide insights into improving the sustainability efforts
Phani Sai Kamal Lingam
Northeastern University
M.S Data Analytics Engineering
Rakesh Malakar
Costco Wholesale
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