The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence’s annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) received about 9,000 paper submissions this year, requiring a relatively large program committee with two program chairs and four associate program chairs. Kai-Wei Chang, associate professor of computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles; an Amazon Visiting Academic in … Read more
Parmida Beigi’s career has touched many facets of machine learning and data science. From her PhD research in computer vision and time series forecasting to her work in Alexa AI end-to-end systems. Today, Beigi pursues—among other things—speech recognition and natural language processing initiatives to help Amazon’s Alexa customers through her work on the local info … Read more
Online bidding services disrupted the auction industry when Pai-Ling Yin began pursuing her Ph.D. in Economics in 1997 at Stanford University. She seized the data these services generate to study and understand the new economy emerging from this industry in transition. “The Internet is accelerating and scaling up transactions,” Yin said. “All these auctions were … Read more
In an ongoing effort to create lasting pipelines of diverse scientific talent and differentiated research, Amazon today announced a collaboration with Howard University, a historically black college or university (HBCU) located in Washington, DC. Founded in 1867, Howard is a research university that includes 14 schools and colleges. As part of the collaboration, which will … Read more
Neural style transfer is the use of neural networks to transfer the style of an input image – e.g. a famous painting – to another input image – e.g. a backyard photograph. Researchers have proposed a variety of techniques for performing style transfer, but which one works best? There is no right answer to that … Read more
Amazon today announced that ten teams from around the globe have been selected to participate in the Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge Year 2, a university challenge focused on developing multimodal (voice and vision) conversational agents that help customers complete tasks that require multiple steps and decisions. The Alexa Prize is a flagship industry-academia collaboration dedicated … Read more
Today, Amazon is announcing its new AI PhD Fellowship program, which will provide two years of funding to more than 100 PhD students at nine universities researching core AI disciplines such as machine learning, computer vision and natural language processing. The goal of the program is to help drive the innovations that will sign the … Read more
Time series forecasting is essential for numerous applications in business, science, and engineering. Recently, fundamental models have led to a paradigm shift in time series forecasting. Unlike statistical models that extrapolate from a single time series, or earlier deep-learning models that were trained on specific tasks, time series foundation models (TSFMs) are trained once on … Read more
Ming Lin elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors Ming Lin, an Amazon Scholar and Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland (UMD), was elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Lin, who joined Amazon Fashion as a Scholar in 2020, was recognized for his … Read more
In June 2022, Amazon re:MARS, the company’s in-person event exploring advances and practical applications in machine learning, automation, robotics and aerospace (MARS), took place in Las Vegas. The event brought together thought leaders and technical experts building the future of artificial intelligence and machine learning, and included keynote speeches, innovation spotlights and a series of … Read more