Machine Learning Researcher Position for Online Services and Advertising Research
Thore
Advertising Research
Microsoft Research invites applications for a permanent researcher
position in the Online Services and Advertising
(OSA) group at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK. The OSA group
conducts research in the areas of web search, computational
advertising and future social online experiences, combining expertise
from a diverse set of research areas including:
* Machine Learning
* Information Retrieval
* Knowledge Representation & Reasoning
* Game Theory & Mechanism Design
We offer an environment that is host to a number of excellent
researchers in the field of Machine Learning including Prof.
Christopher Bishop, Tom Minka, John Winn, Ralf Herbrich and Thore
Graepel.
OSA has a track record in covering the entire value chain from basic
research to impactful products and services in the real world
including the Xbox 360 gamer ranking and matchmaking system TrueSkill
and the click-through-rate prediction system driving all keyword-based
auctions on Microsoft’s search engine Bing.
We are looking for a world class researcher specialising in at least
one of the four research areas above and with a desire for
collaboration and impact. The applicant should be at a stage of their
career 5-10 years past their PhD, and with an academic status
equivalent to that of an experienced assistant professor or associate
professor at a top US university.
The successful candidate will work as a researcher at the Microsoft
Research Laboratory in Cambridge in the Online Services and
Advertising Group as part of the core research group, with the
opportunity to collaborate with applied researchers and developers
from:
* Bing Search
* adCenter
* SharePoint Enterprise Search
* Future Social Experience (FUSE) Labs UK
There are ample opportunities to collaborate with academic colleagues
at Cambridge University and across the world, and to fund and
supervise PhD students. The lab also enjoys a very popular Post-Doc
program, and provides software development support for research
projects.
Salary and benefits will be dependent upon experience and are highly
competitive.
Information about the laboratory and the group is available from
www.research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/osa
The closing date for applications is 1st February 2010. If you are
interested and have any questions, please contact Thore Graepel at
tho...@microsoft.com.
APPLICATIONS
Applications (in Word, PDF or txt format only) should be Emailed to
cam...@microsoft.com with the subject line “OSA researcher position”.
Applications should arrive by 1st February 2010 and should include:
* A Curriculum Vitae.
* The names and addresses of three referees (including telephone
number, fax number and email address), who should be asked to email
references immediately to the above email address.
* A list of published or unpublished work that would be available for
submission if requested.
Short-listed candidates may be asked to make themselves available for
interview at the Microsoft Research Laboratory on a date to be
arranged. Selection will be made as soon as possible thereafter, to
commence from May 2010. Travelling expenses for interviewees will be
covered.
Thore Graepel, Senior Researcher, Online Services and Advertising,
Microsoft Research Cambridge
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Fourth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing
IEEE ICSC2010
September 22nd-24th, 2010, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society
The field of Semantic Computing addresses the derivation and
matching of the semantics of computational content to that
of naturally expressed user intentions in order to retrieve,
manage, manipulate or even create content, where "content" may
be anything including video, audio, text, processes, services,
hardware, networks, etc.
The fourth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing
(ICSC2010) continues to foster the growth of a new research
community. The conference builds on the success of the past
ICSC conferences as an international forum for researchers and
practitioners to present research that advances the state of
the art and practice of Semantic Computing, as well as identifying
emerging research topics and defining the future of the field.
The event is located in Pittsburgh, PA. The technical program of
ICSC2010 includes workshops, invited keynotes, paper presentations,
panel discussions, industrial "show and tells", demos, and more.
Submissions of high-quality papers describing mature results or
on-going work are invited.
The main goal of the conference is to foster the dialog between
experts in each sub-discipline. Therefore we especially encourage
submissions of work that is interesting to multiple areas, such
as multimodal approaches.
Please refer to the conference website for further information:
http://www.iee-icsc.org/
Areas of interest include:
Semantics based Analysis
- Natural language processing
- Image and video analysis
- Audio and speech analysis
- Data and web mining
- Behavior of software, services and networks
- Security
- Analysis of social networks
Semantic Integration
- Metadata and other description languages
- Database schema integration
- Ontology integration
- Interoperability and service integration
- Semantic programming languages and software engineering
- Semantic system design and synthesis
Applications using Semantics
- Search engines and question answering
- Semantic web services
- Content-based multimedia retrieval and editing
- Context-aware networks of sensors, devices and applications
- Machine translation
- Music description
- Medicine and Biology
- GIS systems and architecture
Semantic Interfaces
- Natural language interfaces
- Multimodal interfaces
- Human centered computing
SUBMISSIONS
Regular Papers. Authors are invited to submit an 8-page technical
paper manuscript in double-column IEEE format following the
guidelines available on the ICSC2010 web page under "submissions".
Demonstration Papers. Authors are invited to submit an 2-page
technical paper manuscript in double-column IEEE format following
the guidelines available on the ICSC2010 web page under
"demonstrations".
Workshops and Special Sessions. The organizing committee invites
proposals for workshops and special sessions to be held in
conjunction with the conference. These will focus on specific
topics of the main conference. More information is available on
the ICSC2010 web page.
The Conference Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer
Society Press. Distinguished quality papers presented at the
conference will be selected for publications in internationally
renowned journals.
IMPORTANT DATES
Special Session Proposals: Feb 22nd, 2010
Workshop Proposals: Feb 22nd, 2010
Regular Paper Submission: May 3rd, 2010
Demo Descriptions: May 3rd, 2010