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    fyi<br>
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    BTW, Daria is a former Auton Lab postdoc.<br>
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      Cheers,<br>
      Artur<br>
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            <th nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT">Subject:
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            <td>Internships at A9 Search Relevance and Labs (Amazon)</td>
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            <th nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT">Date: </th>
            <td>Mon, 30 Oct 2017 22:52:38 +0000</td>
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            <th nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT">From: </th>
            <td>Sorokina, Daria <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dariasor@a9.com"><dariasor@a9.com></a></td>
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            <th nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT">To: </th>
            <td>Artur Dubrawski <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:awd@cs.cmu.edu"><awd@cs.cmu.edu></a></td>
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        <p class="MsoNormal">Hello Artur,<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">I think our recruiting team had a big
          success attracting prospective candidates from CMU data
          science program this year. But in case they missed someone or
          especially if you have PhD students who might be interested:
          <o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">A9 Search Relevance and Labs org is looking
          for interns for the next summer. Our org has grown and we have
          multiple opportunities.             
          <o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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          style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
            style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt
              "Times New Roman"">      
            </span></span><!--[endif]-->We have a new team focused on
          experimentation methods. Their possible internship topics
          include “<span style="color:#222222;background:white">Development
            of faster to converge weblab metrics” and “Increase
            statistical power for weblabs”.
          </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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            style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt
              "Times New Roman"">      
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            style="color:#222222;background:white">I am looking for an
            intern to continue the work on developing a smart but simple
            model for the first phase of multi-phase ranking. This is
            more of an empirical ML-heavy project. Ideally I am looking
            for someone who has experience with logistic regression, but
            this is not a hard requirement.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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          style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
            style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt
              "Times New Roman"">      
            </span></span><!--[endif]-->Ranking team has room for a
          research intern. They haven’t made their mind about a specific
          project yet, but I’ve heard keywords “head/tail query splits”,
          “feature selection”, “revisit pointwise vs pairwise”.<o:p></o:p></p>
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          style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
            style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt
              "Times New Roman"">      
            </span></span><!--[endif]-->Digital media team is looking to
          continue an internship project from this summer on identifying
          query chains.<o:p></o:p></p>
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            style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt
              "Times New Roman"">      
            </span></span><!--[endif]-->There is another new team – Deep
          Learning for Search (a.k.a Search Labs) under Guy Lebanon. I
          think there is a possibility there as well.<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">Resumes can be sent directly to me, I’ll
          forward them to the respective teams.<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">Daria<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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