Intern Scientist, Yahoo Labs (Job Number: 1450702)
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Yahoo Labs sets the course for the future. We’re Yahoo’s incubator for bold scientific experimentation. We specialize in deep, creative thought on the company’s hardest technical problems, and hire amazing research scientists and engineers who serve as Yahoo’s most forward-looking thinkers. We stretch the limits of theory, we apply novel ideas in practice, and we experiment. We love challenging problems, we love bleeding-edge technology, and we love data.
Yahoo Labs is one of the most highly collaborative places you’ll ever see. Partnerships abound within our own teams, with all key product teams, and with the international scientific community. We’ll challenge your brain every day, and when you succeed you’ll change the lives of hundreds of millions of people, allowing them to do things they never dreamed they could do. Come join us and use your scientific background to drive Yahoo-scale innovation!
A Little About Us
Yahoo Labs is pioneering the new sciences underlying the Web. As the center of scientific excellence for Yahoo, Yahoo Labs delivers both fundamental and applied scientific leadership through published research and new technologies powering the company’s products.
Your Opportunity
We are looking for exceptional PhD student who want to work with us in our intern program for the summer of 2015. We will have openings in the US (New York City, Sunnyvale) and other locations. We seek world-class graduate students in pursuit of a PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related area. We are particularly interested in students working on Machine Learning, algorithms, Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Representation, HCI, Multimedia, Mobile Innovations, search (systems or algorithms), collaborative filtering, auctions, mechanism design, linear algebra, Systems or analysis of large data. Ideal candidates will have finished at least 2 years of graduate work.
Your Day
- Work with scientists to perform original research
- Apply scientific thinking and techniques to improve the performance
and effectiveness of our products - Solve problems for our users and advertisers by analyzing mountains
of data - Have the opportunity to publish your work and expand the horizons
of web science
You Must Have
- Currently working on the PhD degree, preferably in Computer
Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or related area. - Finished at least 2 years of graduate work
- Have some experience in Machine Learning, algorithms, Natural
Language Processing, Knowledge Representation, HCI, Multimedia,
Mobile Innovations, search (systems or algorithms), collaborative
filtering, auctions, mechanism, design, linear algebra, systems, or
analysis of large data Learning, algorithms, Natural Language
Processing, Knowledge Representation, HCI, Multimedia, Mobile
Innovations, search (systems or algorithms), collaborative
filtering, auctions, mechanism, design, linear algebra, systems, or
analysis of large data - A CV with strong recommendations from your graduate advisor