[Exploratory Math] Research Tokyo Student Intern（TRL）

Introduction
IBM Research Scientists are charting the future of Artificial Intelligence creating breakthroughs in quantum computing discovering how blockchain will reshape the enterprise and much more. Join a team that is dedicated to applying science to some of today’s most complex challenges whether it’s discovering a new way for doctors to help patients teaming with environmentalists to clean up our waterways or enabling retailers to personalize customer service.

Your Role and Responsibilities
This job position is for IBM Japan.

Internship in basic research on game theory and machine learning

The Exploratory Mathematical Sciences Program at IBM Research focuses on topics in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science to advance our understanding of and leveraging these topics for strategic areas of Information Technology such as Artificial Intelligence Quantum Computing Cloud Computing and Security.

One of our current focus is “Game Theory and Machine Learning” which aims to expand the range of applications of strategic decision making and mechanism design traditionally studied in game theory by incorporating machine learning approaches. We are seeking one internship student to accelerate the basic research on this topic.

The internship student will be expected to develop methods supported by theory and demonstrate their effectiveness through computational experiments. Therefore the applicants should have deep expertise in at least one of game theory and machine learning as well as an understanding of the other. Basic programming skills to implement a prototype of the proposed method is desirable but a high mathematical background is more important. Note that although this research project is motivated by real-world applications it does not provide experience in solving real-world problems with real data.

Period：3 months in 2025 (negotiable)
Time：9:00～17:36 (default negotiable)
Place: Hakozaki Office (Tokyo)
Daily Salary:
18000yen (for master’s)」／20000yen (for doctoral students)」(in case housing allowance is unnecessary)
24000yen (for master’s)」／26000yen (for doctoral students)」(including housing allowance)
Daily commuting cost will be paid.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Transportation cost to come to Tokyo is *not* separately paid.

*For non-Japanese nationals:
For foreign residents coming to Japan to participate in our internship please apply at least 4 months prior to the desired start date in order to prepare for the VISA. In addition the internship period must be at least 3 months. (This does not apply to foreign students living in Japan.)

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Candidates should possess all of the following:
・Strong mathematical background preferably with graduate-level studies in topics including machine learning game theory and optimization
・Experience in conducting research preferably in one or more of the above topics
・Familiarity in both of game theory and machine learning
・Basic skills for literature review

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
・Programming skills for implementing research ideas (Python is preferred)
・Writing and communication in English