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Theory Group, Microsoft Research Asia
Group Overview
The Theory group aims at advancing the understanding of the foundation of computer science and collaborating with other groups in Microsoft Research and Microsoft product division to solve challenging algorithmic and analytical problems. With Turing Award winner, Professor Andrew C. Yao as the Chief Advisor, the theory group is building strong connections with the academic community in China and abroad to work together on fundamental problems in theoretical computer science.
For more information, please check out http://research.microsoft.com/research/china/theory/.
Intern Position Openings
We are seeking highly motivated graduate students to join the Theory group as interns working on exciting areas in theoretical computer science. The students should be in his or her graduate program studying in areas related to theoretical computer science, such as algorithms and complexity theory, theory of distributed computing, theory of programming languages, game theory, mathematics and statistics, etc. The students should demonstrate solid training in theoretical computer science and/or mathematics. A good publication record is a plus.
Please send your resume to msraih@microsoft.com. Researcher from Theory Group will meet with potential candidates during the TAMC conference in Shanghai from May 21 to May 25, 2007.
For more information, please check out http://research.microsoft.com/asia/recruit/Internship/.
Position Intern
Group MSR Asia – DIT Group
Type Full-Time
Quantity 2
Work Location Beijing
Group Overview The Data Intelligence and Tools group at MSRA is dedicated to the research and development of data intelligence and exploration tools for future data-driven and Internet-driven software and services. Software design, development and maintenance is becoming increasingly complex and largely dependent on data collected from numerous sources such as system log data, customer feedback and the Internet. Efficient use of information from these data sources is critical to improving software usability, stability, performance, compatibility and security.
Roles & Responsibilities Work together with researcher to design and implement a content management and delivery system oriented to mass of multimedia content information. For the purpose of system implementation, besides database and Web server programming, the candidate should also be familiar with the GUI programming skill in order for developing Web-based and client-side GUI application.
The prototype system will be delivered in MSRA office.
Required Qualifications If you are
1. MS in Computer Science or any related technical field and possess the following skills:
2. Good programming skills, especially C#, XML, ADO.NET, ASP.NET. AJAX skill is expected optionally;
3. Good reading and written English;
4. Good communication skills and excellent teamwork;
5. Good working attitude;
6. Can commit at least 3-month’s internship with advisor’s written approval.
Qualified applicants please fill out the attached application form and send a full resume in both English and Chinese (Word/PDF format) to: MSRAih@microsoft.com, and please note you are applying for DIT Group.
Position Intern
Group MSR Asia – Innovation Engineering Group
Type Full-Time
Quantity 1
Work Location Beijing
Group Overview MSR Asia is committed to ensuring Microsoft customers’ benefit from innovations developed by researchers at the lab. To this end a dedicated team of software engineers was brought together under the Innovation Engineering Group. This group, unique within MSR Asia, is focused on facilitating the transfer of innovations to Microsoft’s products. The group also develops software tools to help improve research productivity and builds prototypes and demos for the lab’s research groups, breathing life into new technology breakthroughs. Over the years, the Innovation Engineering Group, working together with Microsoft’s various product groups, has assisted in the transfer of over one hundred technologies from MSR Asia. Today, the group helps turn the lab’s ideas into reality and develops and promotes software engineering excellence across MSR Asia.
Roles & Responsibilities Web application developer focus on UI implementation.
Required Qualifications If you are:
 Have strong background on Asp.net, ajax, javascript, UI implementation and design.
 Good at C# programming.
 Can commit at least 6-month’s internship.
 Can get advisor’s written approval.
Qualified applicants please fill in the application and send it together with a full resume in both English and Chinese (Word/PDF format) to: MSRAih@microsoft.com, and please note you are applying for MSRA Innovation Engineering Group.
Position Intern
Group Speech Group, Microsoft Research Asia
Type Full-time
Quantity 1
Work Location Beijing, China
Group Overview Using our voices to communicate continues to be the most natural and the easiest way to exchange ideas and thoughts. At MSR Asia, the Speech Group is working hard to turn their ideas into reality and improve spoken-language technologies, enable human-computer voice interaction, and enrich human-to-human voice communications. The group’s current focus includes speech recognition to enable computers to facilitate access to data, help create content, and perform tasks; speech synthesis to enable computers to speak with a human-sounding voice, to respond and provide information, and to read; and spoken-document retrieval and processing to enrich communication between people.
Roles & Responsibilities The Microsoft Research Asia speech group has a 6 month internship available in the area of spoken document recommendation and metadata generation. The project will examine new techniques for automatically generating relationships, keywords and recommendations for spoken documents based on spoken content, acoustic events and visual features. Any research findings will be directly applicable to applications such as video recommendation and multimedia document indexing.
Required Qualifications We are looking for:
1. Excellent skills in speech recognition and/or natural language processing;
2. Solid understanding of probabilistic modelling and statistical training algorithms;
3. Very Strong C++ coding skills are required;
4. Have the experience in using scripting languages such as perl, python or unix scripts;
5. Good technical reading, written, speaking in English.
6. Ph.D or M.S candidate, can commit at least 6-month’s internship
7. Can get advisor’s approval
Qualified applicants please fill out the attached application form and send a full resume in both English and Chinese (Word/PDF format) to: MSRAih@microsoft.com, and please note you are applying for Speech Group.
Position Intern
Group MSR Asia – Search Technology Center
Type Full-Time
Quantity 3
Work Location Beijing
Group Overview Microsoft Research (MSR) Asia and MSN Search have partnered to create the exciting new Search Technology Center (STC) in Beijing, China. Launched in October of 2005, the center is dedicated to advancing the state-of-the-art in search technology and delivering a more intelligent and powerful search experience to MSN users around the world. The mission is to:
• Deliver innovative Search products and services together with MSN/Live search
• Accelerate innovations by seamlessly combining research and development in MSRA
• Evolve Search platform into an Internet Service platform for the next generation of Internet research and development
Roles & Responsibilities 1. Work in distributed computing platform area;
2. Design & Implement test cases, conduct testing;
3. Design & Implement distributed application based on Internet scale data set;
4. Design & Implement test tools.
Required Qualifications We are looking for
1. BS/MS/Ph.D candidate in Computer Science or any related technical field;
2. Interested in distributed computing platform and applications
3. Good programming skills in C/C++
4. Quick learning capability;
5. Good system programming skill is a big plus
6. Good reading and written English;
7. Good communication skills and excellent teamwork.
Qualified applicants please fill in the application and send it together with a full resume in both English and Chinese (PDF format) to: MSRAih@microsoft.com, and please note you are applying for MSRA STC Group.
Position Intern
Group MSR Asia – STC Group
Type Full-Time/Part-Time
Quantity 2
Work Location Beijing
Group Overview Web Search and Mining Group: Search algorithms and technologies to power more accurate and intelligent data retrieval. More information, please visit http://research.microsoft.com/asia/group/wsm.
Search Technology Center: Dedicated to advancing the state-of-the-art in search technology and delivering a more intelligent and powerful search experience to MSN users around the world. More information, please visit http://research.microsoft.com/asia/stc.
Roles & Responsibilities Study and develop the problem of query and Web page understanding, e.g. query classification, page classification, query suggestion, link analysis and so on.
Required Qualifications If you are
1. BS/MS in Computer Science or any related technical field and possess the following skills;
2. Good basis on Web search;
3. Good programming skills or have related project experience;
4. Good speaking (one of the mentor is foreigner), listening, reading and written English;
5. Good communication skills and excellent teamwork.
Please fill in the application and send it together with a full resume in both English and Chinese (Word/PDF format) to: MSRAih@microsoft.com, and please note you are applying for MSRA STC Group.
Position Intern
Group MSR Asia – Visual Computing Group
Type Full-Time
Quantity 2
Work Location Beijing
Group Overview Researchers in the Visual Computing Group are turning their ideas into reality in areas such as computer vision, pattern recognition, machine learning, image/video analysis and retrieval. Projects pushing the state-of-the-art forward include face detection and tracking, face modeling and recognition, cartoon generation, video summarization, 2D and 3D object tracking, image and video retrieval for object tracking, image and video retrieval for MSN, and Xbox camera based game interfaces.
Roles & Responsibilities VC Group welcomes students working on the projects for a period of minimally three months.
Required Qualifications If you are:
1. BS/MS in Computer Science or any related technical field and possess the following skills;
2. Can commit at least 6 months internship and get advisor’s approval;
3. Solid background of data structure;
4. Good programming skills in C/C++;
5. Good team work and communication skills;
6. Be able and willing to solve problems independently;
7. Good knowledge in digital image processing is preferred;
8. Good knowledge in machine learning (AdaBoost, SVM) is preferred;
9. Good knowledge in parallel computing is preferred;
10. Good knowledge in statistics is preferred.
Please fill in the application and send it together with a full resume in both English and Chinese (Word/PDF format) to: MSRAih@microsoft.com, and please note you are applying for MSRA VC Group.
Please include the following contents in your resume:
1. Published paper
2. Award in programming or mathematics
3. Brief description of your project experience.
More information please go to http://research.microsoft.com/asia/group/vc/default.aspx. |
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