Recent honors and awards for Amazon scientists

Recent honors and awards for Amazon scientists

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

A new paradigm for partnership between industry and academia

A new paradigm for partnership between industry and academia

In the global persecution of the Top AI talent, the world’s leading researchers and researchers often face a difficult choice between academia and industry. But this choice has potentially debilitating long -term consequences because today’s university professors are stewards for tomorrow’s talent. When they department from Akademia, the pipeline to AI talent, which is available … Read more

Amazon launches AICE Center at UIUC

Amazon launches AICE Center at UIUC

Amazon and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) announced today the launch of the Amazon-AILL center on artificial intelligence for interactive conversation experiences (AICE). This center, which will be housed with Grainger College of Engineering, will support UIUC researchers in their development of new approaches to conversation AI systems. This multi-year collaboration will provide support … Read more

Amazon and University of Texas at Austin Launch Science Hub

Amazon and University of Texas at Austin Launch Science Hub

Amazon and University of Texas in Austin (UT Austin) have stated the launch of UT Austin-Amazon Science Hub, which continues Amazon’s obligation to support academic research. The goal of the hub is to promote research that asks for new discoveries and addresses that means challenges, while creating solutions whose benefits are widely shared across all … Read more

Latest honor and awards for Amazon scientists

Latest honor and awards for Amazon scientists

Rohit Prasad wins Tie Boston Achievement in Corporate Excellence Award Rohit Prasad, Alexa Senior Vice President and Head Scientist, has won Tie Boston 2022 performance in the Corporate Excellence Award. Bind chosen Prasad for Mis “Remarkable contribution to moving the needle forward to creating or redefining” its industry through investments, mentoring, education and business creativity. … Read more

ICLR: Why does Deep Learning work and what are its limits?

ICLR: Why does Deep Learning work and what are its limits?

At this year’s International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), René Vidal, professor of radiology and electrical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and an Amazon Ward, was a senior area meat that oversees a team of reviewers filled with evaluation of paper submission. And the topic of paper on which his team focused on, says … Read more

ICASSP: Michael I. Jordan’s “Alternative view of AI”

ICASSP: Michael I. Jordan's "Alternative view of AI"

Intelligence is notoriously difficult to define, but when most people (included computer scientists) think about it, they interpret it on the model of human intelligence: an information processing capacity that allows an auto agent to act on the world. Michael I. Jordan, Pehong Chen separates professor of both computer science and statistics department at UC … Read more

Columbia Center for AI Technology Announces Faculty Research Awards

Columbia Center for AI Technology Announces Faculty Research Awards

Columbia Engineering and Amazon have announced four new faculty research awards for the Columbia Center of AI Technology (CAIT). The latest round of projects will explore a number of challenges in artificial intelligence (AI), specific algorithmic justice, collected method of interpreting artistic images found on the Internet, the development of a scalable, differential-private data market … Read more

KDD 2023: Neural Networks’ Graph New Frontiers

KDD 2023: Neural Networks' Graph New Frontiers

In 2021 and 2022, when Amazon Science asked members of the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference (KDD) program committees to discuss the state of their field, the conversations turned the Surrafen Neural Networks. Yizhou Sun, Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles; An Amazon -Learn; and General Flesh of … Read more

Latest honor and awards for Amazon scientists

Latest honor and awards for Amazon scientists

Rahul Urgaonkar Winner IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY WILLIAM R. BENNETT PRIZE Rahul Urgaonkar, a senior application scientist with Amazon advertising, and his co -authors Kevin Spiteri and Ramesh K. Sitaraman, were selected for the IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY WILLIAM R. BENNETT -award earlier this year. The authors were honored for the 2020 paper, “Bola: near optimal bitrate … Read more