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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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<td>Internships at A9 Search Relevance and Labs (Amazon)</td>
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<td>Mon, 30 Oct 2017 22:52:38 +0000</td>
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<td>Sorokina, Daria <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dariasor@a9.com"><dariasor@a9.com></a></td>
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<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="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt
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</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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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span
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>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
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style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt
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</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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</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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</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>
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