Research Intern: Sustainable Mobility – Data
Organization: Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), New Delhi
Location: New Delhi
Industry: Environment, Energy and Climate Change
Type: Internship - 6 months
Salary: Competitive compensation – commensurate to the experience and matching the best of standards adopted by industry or other similar organizations for similar roles.
Description: CEEW seeks to hire Intern (1-2 positions) who will assist the sustainable mobility team in carrying out extensive data analysis to understand the performance of public transport in Delhi. The work may require occasional field visits and coordination with various stakeholders. In addition to the duties and responsibilities outlined below, the Intern should be prepared, as and when necessary, to take on additional responsibilities. Interns will be renumerated as per industry standards.
Responsibilities:
- Carry out data cleaning and analysis of the real-time bus GPS data collected from open transit data portal
- Analyse different bus performance metrics to assess the performance of bus servies in Delhi
- Supplement the bus GPS data with socio-economic and smartphone GPS data to generate meaningful insights
- Participate in creating and labelling training data for ML and AI models for computer vision application
- Explore given and additional datasets to build a coherent understanding of mobility patterns and behaviour associated with public transit services, people movement, last-mile connectivity, road-safety, parking, air pollution, congestion, and EV charging
- Assist the team in generating snackable insights and compelling data visuals for the organisation’s social media platforms
- Involve in extensive data collection, and interact with professionals from the sector
- Carry out relevant literature review and summarize findings as reports
- Assist administrative team for organization of relevant events (whenever needed)
- Be willing to quickly learn new analytical tools and techniques and familiarise themselves with broader sectoral (transport) knowledge as required .
Educational requirements:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree with specialisation in data science, energy, public policy, operations research
Experience requirements:
- Candidates with prior research experience of handling big data are desirable.
- Interest in the transport and energy sector in India.
Desired Skills:
- Experience carrying out data analysis on programmes such as Python, R, STATA are a pre-requisite
- Must have strong research skills – capability to carry out literature review is a key requisite, familiarity with research methods is desirable.
- Willingness to conduct frequent field visits/meetings with stakeholder
- Willingness to work on multi-disciplinary projects
- Good written and oral communication skills
- Experience in data collection preferred
- Experience in dealing with stakeholders (industry, academic, government etc.) preferred
Application Instructions:
- Interested candidates are requested to send their CV and cover letter (in one pdf) to jobs@ceew.in with 'Application: Research Intern – Sustainable Mobility - Data’ as the subject line by 20 April 2021. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. We appreciate your interest.
- Notification
- Candidates with Requisite Experience Only apply that too with relevant cover letter.
- The openings provided here is meant for information purposes only. Please cross-verify the details before applying.
Date Posted: 2021-04-17
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