More about the Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship experience
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Awards and Achievements of Fellows
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Getting Xbox360 in Games on "SILK" Research Platform
Changhu Wang, 2006 Microsoft Research Asia fellow
-University: University of Science and Technology of China
-Internship: Microsoft Research Asia, now
"At Microsoft Research Asia you will gain research experience," Changhu Wang said. "You also have the opportunity to win big awards, such as an Xbox 360 by participating in many intern activities."
Microsoft Research Asia organizes many colorful activities and training events for interns each month. "Games on SILK" is one of them. SILK is a research prototype that can support thousands of participants in playing online Chinese chess at the same time. Changhu competed with more than 140 interns and won the championship award. Most interns had fun in this competition, and they experienced the development level of High Performance Computing PC and Artificial Intelligence. The competition encouraged interns to write their own game applications on this platform and to challenge others. "It it a pleasant experience for me attending Games on SILK," Changhu said. "When I was five years old, I beat my dad, grandpa, and uncle while playing Chinese chess. I was also a team member who helped my team win the team championship in the primary school of our city. However, from middle school until now, because of busy studies, I didn't play chess anymore. "
So in the games, Changhu found his childhood again, which brought him happiness and great surprise. Besides an Xbox 360, he also gained friendships at the lab.
Exploring Beijing with MSRA Interns
Yuichi Taguchi, 2006 MSRA fellow
-University: The University of Tokyo
-Internship: Microsoft Research Asia in 2007
After Yuichi Taguchi received his fellowship award in 2006, he joined the visual computing group of Microsoft Research Asia for four months and advanced a research project in a wonderful working environment. During his four-month life in China, Yuichi visited many great places of interest. The trip to Shidu was one of his best memories in Beijing.
In the early spring, Yuichi and almost 40 interns went out to Shidu, the beautiful place near Beijing. Climbing mountains and cliffs, building campfires, and boating in the lake were exciting to him and other interns.
"One of my best memories was an intern trip to Shidu with about 40 interns," Yuichi said, "An amusement park visit with my mentor was also exciting. I liked to play foosball and billiards at the lounge for relaxation and getting to know new friends. In addition, Microsoft Research Asia kindly arranged Chinese classes for foreign interns. That was really helpful for my life in China."
Before Yuichi ended his internship at Microsoft Research Asia, he said, "It was great to have gotten to know interns and fellows from several countries at Microsoft Research Asia. Talking with the highly motivated interns was so exciting."
Receiving the Fellow Award on "Computing in the 21st Century" in Korea
Sang Ki Yun, 2007 Microsoft Research Asia fellow
-University: Korea University
-Internship: Microsoft Research Asia in 2007
2007 fellow winners Sang Ki Yun, a PhD student of Korea University and Mira Lee, a PhD student of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology received fellowship plaques from Dr. Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia at the "Computing in the 21st Century" conference in Korea on Nov. 2, 2007. Around 1,650 academicians attended the conference and saw the award ceremony. "The fellowship award was the greatest honor in my life," Sang Ki Yun said.
Another fellow winner, Mira Lee, will come to Beijing as an intern."Thanks to my Microsoft Research Asia fellowship, I had an opportunity to go to Beijing and work in Microsoft Research Asia. This trip is full of mystery and has allowed me to improve my research abilities and to feel the culture of a leading company while making friends with excellent students from all over the world."
Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship program has become one of the most highly influential scholarship programs in Korea.
Awards and Achievements of Fellows
Microsoft Research Asia recognizes the achievements and awards of the fellows.
Tao Qin
University: Tsinghua University
Fellowship: 2006 Microsoft Research Asia fellow
Internship: Microsoft Research Asia, now
1. Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, Zheng Chen, Wei-Ying Ma, "A study of relevance propagation for web search," Annual ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in information retrieval.
2. Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, De-Sheng Wang, Wen-Ying Xiong, Hang Li, Learning to Rank Relational Objects and Its Application to Web Search (WWW'08).
Xiaohan Shi
University: Zhejiang University
Fellowship: 2006 Microsoft Research Asia fellow
Internship: Microsoft Research Asia, now
1. Jin Huang, Xiaohan Shi, Xinguo Liu, Kun Zhou, Li-Yi Wei, Shang-Hua Teng, Hujun Bao, Baining Guo, Heung-Yeung Shum, "Subspace gradient domain mesh deformation," ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG).
2. Xiaohan Shi, Kun Zhou, Yiying Tong, Mathieu Desbrun, Hujun Bao, Baining Guo, "Mesh puppetry: Cascading optimization of mesh deformation with inverse kinematics," International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 papers.
Xiaonan Ji
University: University of Melbourne
Fellowship: 2006 Microsoft Research Asia fellow
Internship: Microsoft Research Asia, 2007
Xiaonan Ji, Gu Xu, James Bailey, Hang Li, "Mining, Ranking, and Using Acronym Patterns," APWeb 2008.
Yuichi Taguchi
University: The University of Tokyo
Fellowship: 2006 Microsoft Research Asia fellow
Internship: Microsoft Research Asia, 2007
1. Yuichi Taguchi and Takeshi Naemura, "Rendering-Oriented Decoding for Distributed Multi-View Coding System", Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing (ICIP 2007), vol. 1, pp. 213--216, San Antonio, TX, Sept. 2007.
2. Toru Ando, Yuichi Taguchi, and Takeshi Naemura: "GPU-Oriented Light Field Compression for Real-Time Streaming", ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 Posters, no. 70, San Diego, CA, Aug. 2007.
Youngki Lee
University: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Fellowship: 2006 Microsoft Research Asia fellow
Internship: Microsoft Research Asia, 2007
Youngki Lee, S. Agarwal, C. Butcher, and J. Padhye, "Measurement and Estimation of Network QoS among Peer Xbox 360 Game Players," Proc. of the Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM 2008), Cleveland, Ohio, USA, April 2008
Guojun Qi
University: University of Science and Technology of China
Fellowship: 2007 Microsoft Research Asia fellow
Internship: Microsoft Research Asia, now
1. Guo-Jun Qi, Xian-Sheng Xian, Yong Rui, Jinhui, Tao Mei, Hong-Jiang Zhang, "Correlative Multi-Label Video Annotation," ACM Multimedia 2007 Best Paper Award.
2. Guo-Jun Qi, Xian-Sheng Hua, Yong Rui, Tao Mei, Jinhui Tang, Hong-Jiang Zhang, "Concurrent Multiple Instance Learning for Image Categorization," Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2007, CVPR '07, IEEE Conference.
Testimony from Fellows
Listen to their own words:
"It is my honor to receive a Microsoft Research Asia fellowship. This award has greatly motivated me to pursue my research interests on multimedia retrieval. As a PhD student, it's very important to think what really can be achieved in a PhD study period. Microsoft Research Asia fellowship programs help students to better organize their long-term plans and even career and life goals. The internship opportunity gives a chance to have a much clearer view of where we are headed in our lives."
--Lei WU
University of Science and Technology of China
2007 Microsoft Research Asia fellow
"The Microsoft Research Asia fellowship award has helped me develop confidence as a researcher and provides me encouragement to do high-quality research work. The award gives me freedom to pursue the research topics that I am really interested in. It also offers an opportunity to present and discuss my work with many excellent researchers in many fields."
--Qionghua WANG
Tsinghua University
2007 Microsoft Research Asia fellow
"I think the Microsoft Research Asia fellowship is a fantastic opportunity for young researchers like me to gain hands-on research experience in a large cooperation. I get to collaborate with some of the best researchers in the world and the experience has helped me a lot in determining my own research direction. The encouragement from receiving the award gave me great confidence in establishing a career in research in the theory of computer science. At the same time, the generous financial support provided by the fellowship makes my PhD study a lot easier and my life more trouble-free. I feel very privileged and I am very grateful to Microsoft for giving me such a wonderful opportunity. "
--Jiamou LIU
University of Auckland
2007 Microsoft Research Asia fellow
"I am especially grateful for the internship opportunity that comes with the fellowship award. My internship period has been very exciting and I have gotten to work with many excellent people. They not only taught me computer-related knowledge and skills, but also teamwork spirit, problem-solving approaches, and how to relentlessly pursue higher learning. It has also been eye-opening to talk to fellow research students with differing research interests."
--Vivy Suhendra
National University of Singapore
2006 Microsoft Research Asia fellow
"During this application, both my PhD advisor and the head of department are very supportive and encouraging in my Fellowship. The award aspects of the Microsoft Research Asia fellowship that attract me most are the opportunity to do internship in Microsoft Research Asia and to join an alumni community for academic exchange."
--Tan Yan Ny
National University of Singapore
2005 Microsoft Research Asia fellow
"It is a great pleasure to receive a Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship. And this prize has given me strong motivation for my research. And more, my research is about data mining, and I know that Microsoft Research Asia is also focusing on the same area."
--Yu Hirate
Waseda University
2005 Microsoft Research Asia fellow
"First of all, having my application to Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship be granted itself is huge encouragement. Besides the prestige of a Microsoft Fellowship, the chance to be an intern in Microsoft Research Asia is definitely extending my vision: I can experience different philosophies and learn different methodologies in conducting researches. Because Microsoft Research Asia is one of the top research centers in the world, no doubt I can significantly improve my abilities in working with collaborators and learning correct attitudes to conduct research with senior members."
"In the process of preparing this application, I had a chance to think about what all these things mean to me and the picture of my life-long plan. That experience surprisingly teaches me some lessons beyond my expectations."
--Ya-Shu Chen
National Taiwan University
2005 Microsoft Research Asia fellow
