Job Description

About IIT Bombay

The Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB) is one of the fifteen higher institutes of technology in the country, set up intending to make facilities available for higher education, research, and training in various fields of science and technology. Professor Ganesh Ramakrishnan (department of CSE) and professor Ramasubramanian (department of humanities and social sciences) are attempting to significantly speed up the process of digitization of Sanskrit texts. Enabled by the OCR and post-editing related technologies developed at IIT Bombay, they are now seeking the participation of the community of Sanskrit lovers, software developers, machine learning enthusiasts, project managers, etc.

Activity on Internshala

Hiring since December 2013

346 opportunities posted

93 candidates hired

About the work from home job/internship

Selected intern\'s day-to-day responsibilities include:

1. Maintaining documentation & presentation and drafting proposals/reports, when needed
2. Developing/Maintaining project deliverables under the direction of the project manager and coordinating with team members/clients
3. Handling back-office work for software project management (accounts, HR, drafting, communication, filling, and data management)
4. Assisting in end-to-end recruitment and related activities
5. Gathering and refining specifications/requirements and conveying them to the development team
6. Creating and maintaining software documentation
7. Staying plugged into emerging technologies/industry trends and applying them to operations/activities
8. Performing software/tool testing shared by IIT-B
9. Carrying out research on a given topic and seeing how it fits into our project

Note:

1. We started with developing \'OpenOCRCorrect\', an end-to-end framework for error detection/corrections in Indic-OCR (the demo video for our framework is at https://youtu.be/u9bqUDrGugc - must-watch for candidates). The model should detect text with maximum accuracy and draw bounding boxes on each line of the text. The second step would be spelling correction/formatting of the text detected by OCR models. (language-Sanskrit)
2. This internship is work-from-home, preferably for 2020-21 graduates who deal with people, data, and timeline management, involving only software installation/troubleshooting

Skill(s) required

English Proficiency (Spoken) English Proficiency (Written) Hindi Proficiency (Spoken) Hindi Proficiency (Written) Project Management Software Testing

Earn certifications in these skills

Who can apply

Only those candidates can apply who:

1. are available for the work from home job/internship

2. can start the work from home job/internship between 5th Feb\'23 and 12th Mar\'23

3. are available for duration of 6 months

4. have relevant skills and interests

• Women wanting to start/restart their career can also apply.

Perks

Certificate Letter of recommendation Flexible work hours 5 days a week

Number of openings

1

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