Vanessa Milan is a Senior Research Designer at Microsoft. With a BS in Photography and a Master’s in Publishing, Vanessa’s career path towards UX design and technology has been a non-traditional one. #IChoseSTEM #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #GirlsinSTEM

Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science!

We want to hear from everyone - students, scientists, researchers and everyone in between! What area of STEM do you currently work in or want to work in one day? #WomenInSTEM #GirlsInSTEM #IChoseSTEM #WomenInScience

Dr. Cecily Morrison gives us an overview of what she calls the “pillars” of inclusive design and discusses the path to developing Project Torino, an inclusive physical programming language for children with visual impairments: aka.ms/AA3v6k2 #MSRPodcast

As machine learning becomes more prevalent, it’s critical to guard against bias. Next week, Microsoft researchers Jenn Wortman Vaughan and Hanna Wallach will lead a webinar on ML and fairness. Register to watch their upcoming discussion on responsible AI: aka.ms/AA3tg2h

Microsoft Research's FATE group aims to address the need for transparency, accountability, and fairness in AI and ML systems. Work with FATE's Alexandra Alexandra Olteanu and Fernando @diazf_acm as a Research Intern on a collaborative project with Microsoft Office: aka.ms/AA3rkqa

We're looking forward to another year of exciting research and advancements in emerging technology. Sign up for the Microsoft Research Newsletter to follow our projects in 2019: aka.ms/msrupdates #VR #Haptics

A key challenge to predicting response to inhibitor immunotherapies is modeling the interaction between the tumor and immune system. Microsoft researchers trained a model to predict immune response in patients based on features collected before treatment: aka.ms/AA3qgb6

Listen to Jennifer Chayes on the #WiDS podcast being interviewed by Margot Gerritsen. Tune-in here: ow.ly/qjgm30mMdti @WiDS_Conference Stanford ICME Stanford Engineering #WiDS 2019

We challenge YOU to develop an AI agent that can solve text-based games. Put your reinforcement learning prowess to the test for the First TextWorld Problems Challenge! Enter your agent by May 31, 2019 for a chance to win $2,000: aka.ms/AA3gzei #NeurIPS2018

'We recently came up with a set of algorithms we call greenlining which can lead to hiring which is more diverse, rather than less diverse, than human hiring decisions.'

@JenniferChayes talks gender diversity in #tech via Forbes: aka.ms/AA3gcv0

Are you a PhD student interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency? Apply now for the Former Account of the ACM FAccT/FAT* Conference doctoral colloquium: fatconference.org/2019/DCCallfor… See you in Atlanta!

The Social Media Collective provides rich contextual understanding into the social and cultural dynamics that underpin social media technologies. Apply now to join Soc Media Collective for a 12-week Internship program at Microsoft Research New England: aka.ms/AA382be

You can watch Nancy Baym is not here's talk at Rutger's about the relational labor of cultivating and maintaining audiences (and customers, clients, patrons, constituents,...) youtube.com/watch?v=yx4FPK…

In 1998, Microsoft Research opened a small lab in Beijing to expand its research efforts. Dr. Hsiao-Wuen Hon shares a brief history of Microsoft Research Asia and discusses their unique talent pipeline for the lab's 20th anniversary: aka.ms/AA33ze4 #MSRPodcast #MSRA20

Job ad out for postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research in NYC 🌇🗽 focusing on AI and related topics 📈🤖🧪

Looking for theory and/or applied folks; great collab opportunities!

Deadline 11 Dec (incl. letters)!

Job: careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/5287…

ML group: microsoft.com/en-us/research…

A recap on the Data Science Summer School offered by our sister lab, Microsoft Research NYC. jake hofman Dan Goldstein

The Women in Data Science podcast recently invited @JenniferChayes to sit down for an interview. She believes that data scientists have the opportunity to build algorithms with fairness, accountability, transparency and ethics. Listen now: aka.ms/AA33ct9 #AI #DataScience

Looking forward to the next decade of innovation from Microsoft Research New England Microsoft Research

“For me, this anniversary marks not only the passage of time, but also the progress that we have made as a research lab. Our impact has exceeded my wildest expectations. I’m looking forward to the next 10 years.”

@JenniferChayes and Microsoft Research New England celebrated the lab's 10th anniversary.

Boston area mathematicians gathered at Microsoft Research New England for today's Charles River Lecture Series on Probability and Related Topics. The one-day event began with sessions from @Dartmouth's Peter Winkler and @NYUniversity's Eyal Lubetzky. See all the session topics: aka.ms/AA2qnye