During your 12 week internship, you’ll find out what it’s like to work in an industrial research lab and learn from world-leading researchers and engineers who are invested in helping you.
You will be an important part of a team who wants you to get the best out of your internship and will take the time to help you and discuss your ideas. You can also explore other subjects and opportunities through a personal mentor, hackathons and more.
Our interns have the opportunity to make significant contributions to work that could go on to impact Microsoft products. Our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and you can be part of that.
We offer a competitive salary, an accommodation allowance and number of events and activities during the Summer to enable you to get to know others.
Duration: July-October
Microsoft’s communication intelligence research team is looking for an excellent Ph.D. candidate for a summer internship. Our team is focused on applied research in the field of NLP, utilizing state-of-the-art Deep Learning techniques for solving complex text-related problems. Our data includes emails, instant messaging (like Skype and MS Teams), and meeting transcripts, and our goal is to detect user intent and extract text semantics in order to improve user’s productivity, based on these huge data sets. On top of that, our solutions need not only to be accurate, but also efficient in order to perform on the massive scale of Microsoft users.
During your summer internship, you will join our research group, share our challenges, brain-storms, user feedbacks, and join our journey to provide better experience and empowerment to millions of users. If you are passionate about complex problem solving and interested in applying ML/DL in the exciting field of NLP – we can promise an unmatched adventure.
Responsibilities
The main goal of the internship will be to solve a challenging NLP task, apply it to real data, prove its value, and publish your results in a paper, submitted to a leading relevant journal.
Relevant tasks would be, for example:
- Decisions detection over meeting transcripts
- Extraction of task-related context
- Extract the meaning of user’s commitment and detect similar commitments over meeting transcripts
- Over meeting transcripts, detect sentences where speaker X is talking of topic Y
- And many more…
Qualifications
- PhD student in Computer Science / Mathematics / Bioinformatics / Engineering or equivalent
- Knowledge and experience of utilizing Deep Learning techniques for solving NLP problems
- At least one-year experience in writing Python code and with deep learning frameworks (PyTorch or TensorFlow)
- Independent and self-learner
- Team player, enthusiastic with a get-things-done attitude
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
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