Microsoft Research Intern - AI Interaction Learning 

United States, Washington 

876707685

(AIIL) group in Microsoft Research focuses on building and analyzing symbiotic artificial intelligence (AI) systems, where knowledge workers and AI agents collaborate to produce outputs of ever-increasing value. To achieve this, our current projects topics include:

• Semantic Telemetry and User Modeling: Assessing how people use copilot systems at scale and measuring value to the user. This includes work on measurement, evaluation, and synthetic data generation.
• Interactive Machine Learning and Continual Learning: Utilizing interaction traces to extract signals (eg. preferences, feedback) and improve the performance of the AI systems. This includes work on personalization, recommendations, prompt optimization, fine-tuning, and alignment.

for examples of active areas of research in the group.

• Currently enrolled in a PhD program in CS, EE or a related STEM field.
• At least 1 year of experience conducting research, writing peer-reviewed publications and software development

Other Requirements

• Research Interns are expected to be physically located in their manager’s Microsoft worksite location for the duration of their internship.
• In addition to the qualifications below, you’ll need to submit a minimum of two reference letters for this position as well as a cover letter and any relevant work or research samples. After you submit your application, a request for letters may be sent to your list of references on your behalf. Note that reference letters cannot be requested until after you have submitted your application, and furthermore, that they might not be automatically requested for all candidates. You may wish to alert your letter writers in advance, so they will be ready to submit your letter.

• Ability to think unconventionally to derive creative and innovative solutions.
• Actively conducting research in at least one of the following areas: large foundation models, dialog systems, reinforcement learning, natural language processing, interactive ML, recommender systems, multi-agent systems, artificial intelligence, machine learning, information retrieval, computational social science, computational economics, or human-ai collaboration.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with your mentor and others in Microsoft on research projects.
• Proficient interpersonal skills, cross-group, and cross-culture collaboration skills.

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