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
For as long as he can remember, Jonathan Toner has been drawn to the hardest problems he can find. Where did life originate? What can Earth’s most extreme environments tell us about the planet’s history? Was Mars always the desolate, lifeless place we imagined it to be? Toner investigated these and other questions as a … Read more
Amazon’s massive makes it possible to adapt to the customer’s shopping experience in countless ways. It’s no surprise when the Amazon store expects you to come back to buy the goodies your dog loves and you see the setting on the front of the website. But there may also be similar brands worth considering for … Read more
In Rustan Leino’s ideal world, computer software always works as intended. In the real world, however, he knows that software engineers are people like him – they make mistakes to write code. Some of these error -standing escapes detection. As a result, the world is full of buggy software. Leino is a senior main application … Read more
Social media can have a major impact on the popularity of certain objects. Take, for example, LEGO Flower Bouquet Building Kit shown on the Abbott Elementary or “Miracle Cleaning Paste” show viewed in millions of online videos. Both have picked up hum from viral clips and sharing. On Amazon’s famous Internet page you can find … Read more
When you ask Alexa have a question – say to buy more peanut butter – you probably have a specific idea in mind. As if playing a game of 20 questions, Alexa is trying to meet your request in as few turns as possible and pinpoining the context and specific. Last summer, as an intern … Read more
Building quality software tends to follow a well -known routine for most developers. You type code on your computer with an integrated development environment (idea), and to check for any security errors, upload it to a central restitor and run a security scan. The results appear on dashboard in your web browser, separate from idea. … Read more
When customers shop at the Amazon store and learn that a product is sold out, how likely are they to replace it with a similar product from another brand? What are the fastest, most fuel -efficient ways to deliver orders to customers? If we claim to work on problems in the real world, it is … Read more
With one of the big, most miscellaneous, most distributed work forces in the world, Amazon faces a unique HR challenge: how to deliver a work experience that each employee’s needs need. Jessie Handbury, Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and Amazon visits academically (AVA), helps Amazon’s people, experience and technology central science … Read more