微软 “明日之星”实习生项目

范永勇

微软亚洲研究院“明日之星”实习生项目
Microsoft Research Asia is recruiting interns for Stars of Tomorrow Internship Program.
微软亚洲研究院是微软公司在美国本土之外最大的基础科研机构，被美国著名技术杂志MIT  《Technology Review》誉为“世界上最火的计算机实验室”。 自1998年成立以来，启动了面向亚太区高校博士生、硕士生和优秀本科生的“明日之星”实习生项目。该项目由微软亚洲研究院和国内外高校共同执行，旨在培养高素质的计算机基础研究人才。实习生进入微软亚洲研究院后深入到每个研究小组进行为期三个月或更长时间的实习。截止至2011年9月，已有4000名来自亚太区高校的学生到微软亚洲研究院实习，平均每年有400个实习机会开放给所有的学生。
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搜索技术中心
Position: Full-time Intern
Group: STCA Data Mining
Quantity: 1
Work Location: Beijing

Group Overview
Microsoft Search Technology Center Asia (STCA) is driving the innovation and development of Bing search, which has the mission of delivering the most relevant knowledge to our customers by being not just a search engine but a “decision engine”. At Bing, we have enormous wealth of data, ranging from user interaction logs to web documents, from user feedback to system performance data. These data are critical for achieving overall Bing goals. The STCA Data Mining team develops and applies advanced techniques to turn our petabytes of data into knowledge and insights; and turn insights into actions and impacts.

Roles & Responsibilities
The interns will be working with the STCA Data Mining team to apply data mining and statistics techniques to process and experiment large volume of search data and generate useful insights. The interns will be required to conduct programming, data processing, reporting, and experimentation for various data mining projects.

Required Qualifications:
1. Advanced degree (Master, PhD) in data mining, computer sciences, statistics, machine learning, mathematics, or related fields
2. Strong knowledge in areas such as statistics, data analysis, data mining, web mining, machine learning, informational retrieval, and database.
3. Good programming skills or have related project experience (e.g. SQL/C#/C++)
4. Good reading, written, and oral English;
5. Good communication skills and excellent teamwork.
6. Can commit at least 6 months internship, can get your advisor’s approval.

创新工程中心
Position: Full-time Intern
Group: Innovation Engineering Group
Quantity: 1
Work Location: Beijing

Group Overview
The Innovation Engineering Group is a new incubation group based in Microsoft Research Asia. Here teams are small, the environment is unstructured, and the work is fast-paced. Here our focus is to turn ideas into reality.

Roles & Responsibilities
We are recruiting interns to work on an innovative and challenging engineering project. The duties will cover software design and development.
Required Qualifications:
1.        MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science or any related technical field and possess the following skills;
2.        Good at c#;
3.        Familiar with design pattern or C++ or database is good plus;
4.        1-2 years project experience is good plus;
5.        Passion on new technology;
6.        Fast learning;
7.        Good communication skills and excellent teamwork.
8.        Can commit at least 3 months internship, can get your advisor’s approval.

人机交互组
Position: Full-time Intern
Group: MSRA Human-Computer Interaction Group
Quantity: 2
Work Location: Beijing

Group Overview
Located in Beijing, China, Microsoft Research Asia is Microsoft’s fundamental research arm in the Asia Pacific region. With our deep connections to our other MSR labs in Redmond, Cambridge, India, and Silicon Valley, as well as academic institutes across Asia, the Americas, and Europe, we work with the best and brightest minds across the world, and have emerged as one of the world’s preeminent computer science research labs. The MSRA Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) group lies at the intersection of humans and technology, and focuses on creating technologies that augment our personal and professional digital lives to enhance individual and collaborative pursuits. It’s an exciting time for HCI in China so come join us at the forefront of a burgeoning HCI community. For more information, see http://research.microsoft.com/hci.

Roles & Responsibilities
We are looking for Hardware and Software students who are:
1.        Exceptionally clever - Able to define new and interesting problem spaces as well as to distill them and propose simple, elegant solutions. Passionate and talented - Proven ability to drive an independent research agenda, and inspire/lead the broader team with your expertise.
2.        Self-motivated - Anxious to design, build, and explore solutions on aggressive timelines. We are looking for scientists, designers, makers, doers, creators!
3.        Willing to take risks and be different - Smart enough to know there's really no right answers (or problems) in research, and that good solutions often come from many failures. Willingness to work outside your comfort zone and learn from others. Constantly aware of the potential for improvement. Keen desire to build technology that plays a more meaningful role in people's lives.
4.        Able to play well with others: Comfortable in collaborative work environments. Willing and able to work with multiple collaborators to integrate various technologies and build out impactful user experiences. Good English communication skills. Humble enough to actively solicit and incorporate feedback.

Required Qualifications:
1.        For Computer Scientists and related engineering and social science disciplines, we favor current PhD students, but will also consider strong Masters degree candidates.
2.        Looking specifically for expertise in the following research areas (but always open to consider others): Human-Computer Interaction in general, mobile computing, hardware, haptics, machine learning, computer vision, robotics, etc.
3.        For Designers, looking for independent undergraduate or Masters students with strong background and portfolio.
4.        Reasonably proficient in English, bonus if proficient in Mandarin too.


软件分析组
Position: Full-time Intern
Group: Software Analytics
Quantity:  4
Work Location: Beijing

Group Overview
Employing pattern recognition, machine learning, and information visualization technologies, the Software Analytics Group at Microsoft Research Asia strives to research and develop next generation data analysis and exploration tools in order to obtain insightful and actionable information for ultra-large data-driven software and services quality and development productivity improvement.

Roles & Responsibilities
The interns will be working with the researchers in the Software Analytics group for various research projects, with one of the three focuses below –
•Focus 1. Research on data mining/machine learning/mathematical modeling algorithms
•Focus 2. Prototype development
•Focus 3. Interactive and graphical design

Required Qualifications:
•Common requirements
a.        Good reading, written, and oral English;
b.        Good communication skills and excellent teamwork.
c.        Can commit at least 6 months internship, can get your advisor’s approval.
•Requirements to the candidates on Focus 1 and 2 (3 interns needed)
a.        BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or any related technical field and possess the following skills;
b.        Background in machine learning (clustering, learning, classification)
c.        Good programming skills or have related project experience;
d.        Solid mathematics (linear algebra, optimization, statistics)
•Requirements to the candidates on Focus 3 (1 intern needed)
a.        BS/MS in interactive design or any related field;
b.        Strong in interactive or graphical design;
c.        Be creative to come up with new designs.


网络多媒体组
Position: Full-time Intern
Group:  Internet Media       
Quantity:  1-2
Work Location: Beijing

Group Overview
Researchers in the Internet Media Group are turning their ideas into reality in areas such as image and video representation, media compression and communication, as well as, computer vision and graphics.

Roles & Responsibilities
The interns will be working with Feng Wu, on applications of three dimensional shape/range measurements. The interns will be required to conduct programming, simulation, and experiment for various research projects, or if capable, conduct mathematical analysis of algorithms and solve new problems.

Required Qualifications:
1.MS/PhD in related technical field and possess the following skills;
2.Background in three dimensional range/shape measurements; three dimension reconstruction;
3.Background in optics, digital speckle, or structured light techniques is a plus;
4.Good programming skills or have related project experience;
5.Good reading, written, and oral English;
6.Good communication skills and excellent teamwork.
7.Can commit at least 6 months internship, can get your advisor’s approval.

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