Job/Intern Announcements

Following job/intern announcements are of interest to folks.

1. NYT: The Data Science Group at The New York Times is expanding, and we are hiring in data scientist / machine learning roles (http://bit.ly/nyt-datasci). The group focuses on developing and deploying machine learning solutions to meet newsroom and business challenges throughout the company. These challenges include prediction and prescription problems (e.g., supervised learning, targeting), resulting in a variety of internal data products: e.g., webapps, APIs, and slackbots. For examples of public-facing details on machine learning at The New York Times, see the URLs below for an interview [1], talk [2], news [3], or blog [4].

[1] http://www.columbia.edu/itc/applied/wiggins/DSatW-wiggins.pdf
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy_4tljIFqY
[3] http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/08/the-new-york-times-built-a-slack-bot-to-help-decide-which-stories-to-post-to-social-media/
[4] http://bit.ly/AlexCTM

2. Adobe:  Full-Time Positions in Big Data Experience Lab (BEL) at Adobe Research, San Jose, CA

Big Data Experience Lab (BEL) at Adobe Research (https://research.adobe.com/about-the-labs/bigdata-experience-lab/) in San Jose is looking for full-time researchers to define and execute next generation machine learning and AI research for digital marketing applications and services. Adobe Marketing Cloud (http://www.adobe.com/marketing-cloud.html) is one of the largest data collection platforms in the world, managing approximately 35 petabytes of customer data and processing one trillion transactions per quarter. But it's not just the quantity of data - it's the quality of the work that makes this an amazing time to be at Adobe Research. BEL has excellent publication record with dozens of papers at top-tier machine learning and AI conferences and journals in recent years. Join us to turn data into impact as you analyze unique problems, draw inferences, test theories, and see your theories come to life in solutions that help our customers rack up business successes. If you're interested in the problems related to finding information hidden in large data sets, then Adobe Research is your opportunity to make a huge impact on the academic community as well as our customers, who represent the top 10,000 biggest web and mobile businesses.

We accept applications throughout the year. The application should include a brief description of the applicant's research interests and past experience, plus a CV that contains the degrees, GPAs, relevant publications, names and the contact information of references, and other relevant documents. To apply, please send your application to adoberesearchjobs@adobe.com.

3. Adobe: Machine Learning Internship at Adobe Research, San Jose, CA

Machine Learning Group in Big Data Experience Lab (BEL) at Adobe Research (https://research.adobe.com/about-the-labs/bigdata-experience-lab/) in San Jose is looking for interns to work on a range of problems in machine learning, deep learning, digital marketing, and analytics. Our interns will have opportunity to work on real-world terabyte-scale problems in Adobe Marketing Cloud (http://www.adobe.com/marketing-cloud.html). The interns will be supervised by researchers in the group who have excellent publication record with dozens of papers at top-tier machine learning and AI conferences and journals in recent years.  The internship will be in San Jose, California, at the heart of the Silicon Valley. The duration of the internship is 12 weeks and it can start any time from April 1, 2017.

The successful candidate will be mentored and work closely with one or more of the following Adobe researchers:

- Yasin Abbasi Yadkori (http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~abbasiya)

- Hung Bui (https://sites.google.com/site/buihhung)

- Mohammad Ghavamzadeh (http://chercheurs.lille.inria.fr/~ghavamza)

- Branislav Kveton (http://www.bkveton.com)

- Georgios Theocharous (http://www.adobe.com/technology/people/san-jose/georgios-theocharous.html)

- Nikos Vlassis (https://sites.google.com/site/nikosvlassis)

- Zheng Wen (http://www.zheng-wen.com)

The deadline for the application is January 31, 2017.  To apply, please send your application to machine-learning-internships@adobe.com.

Ballet and Gender Roles, A Discussion

Can ballet express modernist view of sexes and gender roles? This is a much needed discussion, and NYT steps up. Good to see friend Amar make cameos in pictures. 

Lines of NY

Here are the lines of NY in a snowing morning.