Ang's prior awards include: Winner of IBM Open Source Software Competition, 2009 Finalists Accenture Innovation Award 2009 and the Motorola Scholarship in Computer Science 2008.

Ang currently works under the guidance of Professor Michel Schellekens and recently joined IBM in Cork. The internship will involve a stay at IBM in Brussels for the team competitions. The internship runs until September 16th 2011.

The Extreme Blue™ programme is IBM's premier internship programme for top-notch students pursuing software development and MBA degrees. Once selected into the programme, interns become part of a team working in one of the 15 Extreme Blue labs worldwide. Their team's challenge is to develop the technology and business plan for a new product.

Through the programme, interns have submitted more than 400 patent disclosures and have made more than sixty open source contributions to the open source community. Interns have helped create solutions for key clients and bring-to-market the next generation of IBM products. The Extreme Blue teams work on leading technology that helps grow skills and evolves participants into more attractive candidates in the technology field. Interns in this high-performance environment get to roll up their sleeves and work with "hot" technologies such as Cloud Computing, Web 2.0, and petabyte-scale data analysis.

Picture:  Professor Michel Schellekens (left) with Ceol PhD student, Ang Gao

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