Director of Research, LLMs; Spotify
Boston, MA
Joined February 2013
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Are you a PhD student interested in generative AI, agentic systems, or economics+AI research? Apply to join us for a research internship this summer at Spotify. lifeatspotify.com/jobs/2025-…
Are you a PhD student looking for an AI-focused summer internship? We are looking for candidates to join us for an internship at Spotify in NYC this summer. lifeatspotify.com/jobs/2024-…
Looking for scientists who are interested in redefining the listening experience by advancing, developing, and applying the state-of-the-art in large foundational models. lifeatspotify.com/jobs/senio…
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Today, @UNmigration released its 2nd synthetic dataset on trafficking victims, generated with differential privacy using Microsoft's open-source Synthetic Data Showcase. Learn more about how it works. msft.it/6010ezIOw
Congratulations to @tararootcake for having her dissertation at U-M recognized as exceptionally impactful with the Kuck Dissertation Award for her work on augmenting structure with text. Want to work with her and other researchers at @MSFTResearch ? We are looking for interns!
Really honored to receive this award🤩I suppose now's as good a time as any to share that I've defended my dissertation from @UMichCSE @michigan_AI & joined @MSFTResearch working on LLMs, information retrieval, and the future of search & recommendation!
Great blog about how Github is collaborating with researchers in academia and Microsoft to make science -based design decisions that improve Developer Communities and Productivity across the world. github.blog/2022-07-20-heres… @denaefordrobin @tomzimmermann @nicolefv @MSFTResearch
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We can now announce the winner of the Best #SIGIR2022 Hasthag Award goes to #flatsusan
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Enjoying #SIGIR2022 with colleagues in-person (@pnbennett) and remote (@susan_dumais). #FlatSusan #FancyAcademics
Great feature on Tom Zimmerman's research in ACM profiles, acm.org/articles/people-of-a… . One of the researchers at Microsoft Research investigating how AI will reshape the landscape of developer productivity. @tomzimmermann @nicolefv @MSFTResearch
The call for proposals/nominations for this year's Microsoft Research PhD fellowships are now open. Click on the region of your university to learn about next steps at microsoft.com/en-us/research…
Two late-breaking Microsoft Research internship opportunities for this summer: one on large-scale recommender systems and another to explore storage side acceleration to enable and improve vector search at Microsoft/worldwide scale. Apply at careers.microsoft.com/us/en/… @MSFTResearch
Great dissertation defense talk today @tararootcake on combining graph and text models! I really enjoyed reading your dissertation. Congrats Dr. Safavi! @danaikoutra @kevynct
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After 1+ years of writing, the first draft of our book (w.
@JianfengGao0217 @pnbennett @nick_craswell
) "Neural Approaches to Conversational Information Retrieval" is now up on ArXiv (arxiv.org/abs/2201.05176) for feedback. Let us know where you think we can improve the book!
For those interested in zero-shot learning, we are looking for researchers to advance our mission to provide universal search and recommendation with representation learning. careers.microsoft.com/us/en/…
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A belated Tweet about our recent work in EMNLP 2021; "Say ‘YES’ to Positivity: Detecting Toxic Language in Workplace Communications". This was a joint work with @meghana_moorthy @AhmedHAwadallah @pnbennett, and we release a new dataset for this task at aka.ms/ToxiScope
Proud to be a part of this Microsoft-wide team driving science advances!
The Microsoft Turing model T-NLRv5 has reached new heights on SuperGLUE and GLUE leaderboards, reaffirming our commitment to bringing smarter, more responsible AI product experiences to our customers using state-of-the-art language models. msft.it/6004k0Ndr
Great research talks on causal ML and if you are looking for a research internship on causality see careers.microsoft.com/us/en/… .
The videos of the #causalml sessions at the recent Microsoft Research Summit are now available on-demand microsoft.com/en-us/research…
@MSFTResearch #causality #ml
Missed the Microsoft Research Summit 2021? You can still catch all of the content on-demand at microsoft.com/en-us/research… including the Future of Search and Recommendation Track at microsoft.com/en-us/research… . @susan_dumais @MSFTResearch
Working on graph learning, large-scale machine learning, developer productivity or causality? We are looking for interns and post-docs in the Productivity and Intelligence group at @MSFTResearch microsoft.com/en-us/research…
