Centre closure

As part of a broader organisational restructure, data networking research at Swinburne University of Technology has moved from the Centre for Advanced Internet Architecture (CAIA) to the Internet For Things (I4T) Research Lab.

Although CAIA no longer exists, this website reflects CAIA's activities and outputs between March 2002 and February 2017, and is being maintained as a service to the broader data networking research community.

Winter 2015 Internships at CAIA

Monday 22 June 2015 -- Friday 31 July 2015

CAIA is offering one or two internships over the winter 2015 break for students who are currently two (or more) years through a Telecommunications Engineering, Electronic Engineering or Computer Engineering bachelors degree at an Australian university (or an approved double-degree containing one of those degree programs). The ideal candidate will have a strong interest in IP data networking and be curious about research in Internet protocol design, development and evaluation.

The internship will last for 6 weeks, from Monday June 22nd 2015 to Friday July 31st 2015. Applicants are expected to be available for the entire 6 week period.
Potential applicants should make initial contact with CAIA by midday, Monday May 25th, 2015.

Successful applicants will work under the supervision of a CAIA academic staff member.

Goal:

Internships are an opportunity to explore life in a research centre, collaborate with experienced academic staff and do a research project outside the boundaries of a regular undergraduate curriculum. You will begin to appreciate the combination of discipline and imagination that drives modern data networking research.

Stipend:

A tax-exempt stipend of $475/week will be paid to each intern under this scheme.

This internship is limited to students who meet the following criteria:

By the end of this current semester you will have completed 2 (or more) years of a Telecommunications Engineering, Electronic Engineering or Computer Engineering bachelors degree at an Australian university (or an approved double-degree containing one of those degree programs).

In 2nd semester 2015 you will be continuing the bachelors degree (or double degree) listed in the preceding point.

You have achieved an average grade of at least 75% over your most recent 150 credit points of subjects studied for your Telecomms Engineering, Electronic Engineering or Computer Engineering degree. (A typical semester will have subjects totalling 50 credit points, so for many applicants this amounts to your most recent 3 semesters or 1.5 years up to mid-2015. It is not necessary that each subject's grades are above 75%, just that the overall average exceeds 75%.)

The first application round is in four parts. (Yes, this is a modest screening process.)

First: Put together a single page document (ASCII or pdf) that clearly:

States why you wish to be considered for this Internship (no more than half a page)

States that you are available full time for the duration of the internship.
Documents all your academic results (each subject and associated numeric grade) for the most recent 150 credit points (three semesters, which will not include 1st of this year - see criteria above).

Documents all your academic results (each subject and associated numeric grade) for the most recent 150 credit points (three semesters, which will not include Semester 1 of this year - see criteria above).

Second: By 12pm (midday) Monday May 25th,:

generate a new SSH public/private key pair

email your new SSH public key by email to Dr Philip Branch (pbranch@swin.edu.au) with Subject line reading "CAIA Internship, SSH key"

NOTE: This public key must be generated in a format suitable for use with OpenSSH under unix

Third: On Wednesday May 27th you will receive an email requesting that you upload your document from Step 1 using SCP to an IP address specified in this email. You must complete this upload step by 5pm Friday May 29th. (You will not need a password. If this requirement does not make sense, re-consider step 2.)

Fourth: On Tuesday June 2nd we will contact all applicants by email regarding the results of this application process (and next steps, if any)

Note:ASCII text (with .txt extension). Applications submitted in MS Word, OpenOffice, or any other format (including snail mail) will simply be ignored.

Final selection of applicants:

We may choose to use follow-up phone or in-person interviews to make our final selection. Where an objective tie-break is required, we will chose the person whose SSH key arrived first (in step 2 above).