Our mission is to develop new technologies that enhance user experience in Internet search and services. We envision how the future might be and create end-to-end solutions that realizes our vision. Through close collaboration with product teams across Microsoft, we seek to bring our innovations rapidly to products that impact the end users.
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We are looking for interns for the Summer of 2010. Candidates should be interested in the topic of Internet search, be actively pursuing a PhD in computer science or a related field, and preferably be in at least their 2nd year of graduate studies.
To apply, please upload a vita to the Microsoft Research internship application tool and send an email to us. A minimum of two reference letters must be uploaded for an application to be complete.
Recent Recognitions
- Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Nina Mishra, and Alex Ntoulas's paper titled Releasing Search Queries and Clicks Privately (co-authored with Aleksandra Korolova) is one of six papers nominated for best paper in WWW 2009.
- Anitha Kannan has received the CVPR 2008 best student paper runner-up for her paper titled Epitomic location recognition (co-authored with K. Ni, A. Criminisi and J. Winn).
- Sreenivas Gollapudi has received the PODS 2008 best paper award for his paper titled Estimating PageRank on Graph Streams (coauthored with Atish Das Sarma and Rina Panigrahy).
- Ariel Fuxman has received the SIGMOD 2008 best dissertation award for his thesis titled Efficient Query Processing over Inconsistent Databases.
- Rakesh Agrawal has received the ICDE 2008 influential paper award for his 1995 paper titled Mining Sequential Patterns (coauthored with R. Srikant).
Past recognitions can be found from our research page.
- Tao Cheng, Hady Lauw, and Stelios Paparizos, Fuzzy Matching of Web Queries to Structured Data, in Proc. ICDE Conf, March 2010
- Atish Das Sarma, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Marc Najork, and Rina Panigrahy, A Sketch-Based Distance Oracle for Web-Scale Graphs, in 3rd ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., February 2010
- Anish Das Sarma, Atish Das Sarma, Sreenivas Gollapudi, and Rina Panigrahy, Ranking Mechanisms for Twitter-Like Forums, in Proc. of Third ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2010
- Umar Syed, Alex Slivkins, and Nina Mishra, Adapting to the Shifting Intent of Search Queries, in NIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems Conference), December 2009
- Atish Das Sarma, Sreenivas Gollapudi, and Rina Panigrahy, Sparse Cut Projections in Graph Streams, in 17th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA), European Association for Theoretical Computer Science, September 2009
- Ariel Fuxman, Anitha Kannan, Andrew B Goldberg, Rakesh Agrawal, Panayiotis Tsaparas, and John Shafer, Improving Classification Accuracy Using Automatically Extracted Training Data, in International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, June 2009
- Stelios Paparizos, Alexandros Ntoulas, John Shafer, and Rakesh Agrawal, Answering web queries using structured data sources, in Proc. SIGMOD Conf., June 2009
- Sreenivas Gollapudi and Aneesh Sharma, An Axiomatic Approach for Result Diversification, in Proc. of 18th World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 20 April 2009
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