Overview
Microsoft Research New England (MSR-NE) was founded in July 2008 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by Managing Director Jennifer Tour Chayes and Deputy Managing Director Christian Borgs.
The New England lab builds on Microsoft’s commitment to collaborate with the broader research community and pursues new, interdisciplinary areas of research that bring together core computer scientists and social scientists to understand, model, and enable computing and online experiences of the future.
As part of the company’s open research environment, MSR-NE supports the academic tradition of hosting colloquia, seminar series, and special events that contribute to the intellectual commons. Hundreds from the local academic community have joined to speak at or attend these events, and the lab had more than 350 academic visitors this past year, many of whom have engaged deeply with other Microsoft Research researchers and with our product groups.
The lab supports a core team of established researchers, as well as a large group of postdocs, interns and distinguished visiting faculty members.
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Events
Opportunities
Internships
About
Microsoft Research New England consists of thirty-five full-time researchers and postdocs working in machine learning, statistics, computational biology, theoretical computer science, algorithmic game theory, economics, social media, cryptography, and mathematics. Highly collaborative and interdisciplinary in nature, MSR-NE is actively engaged with the local academic and tech communities.
Internship Overview
Microsoft Research New England is actively seeking research interns across a range of research areas. MSR New England is an exciting, interdisciplinary environment in which researchers have the freedom to explore their scholarly interests with access to an extraordinary diversity of big and small data sources, an open publication policy, and close links to academic institutions. Interns are hired for twelve weeks and receive a competitive salary and benefits package. Most internships take place over the summer, but other time periods are possible.
Intern Experience
“My Summer internship at Microsoft was one of the best summers I’ve ever had! I enjoyed the friendly environment, the meaningful and socially important projects, and my always happy to help mentors.” – Alexey Romanov
“The MSRNE Internship was one of the highlights of my academic career. The internship provided me with the freedom to lead a new research project that I was passionate about, while also providing the structure and mentorship to take my research in new directions.” – Michaelanne Dye
“I felt supported by the process at Microsoft Research, to take on what may seem intimidating, especially for social science and humanities students: tackling a research project in 12 short weeks. The internship was an invaluable experience for my intellectual and professional development.” – Penny Trieu
“Henry [Cohn] was an exceptional mentor; besides all the math I learned from him, during my time in the lab I could witness how passionate and original he is with his work, both qualities that I aspire to keep for my own research career. I am very thankful I had the privilege to meet so many smart and kind people during my internship.” – Kim Villalobos Carballo
Open Internship Positions
If you would like to be considered for an intern position at MSR New England, please apply to one of the open positions. We welcome interdisciplinary or otherwise unique applications, which should be sent to whichever openings seem closest. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity. We especially encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups.
Past Events
2018
Microsoft Research New England 10th Anniversary Symposium
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, Cambridge, MA | October 11, 2018
Since its founding in 2008, the New England lab builds on Microsoft’s commitment to collaborate with the broader research community and pursues new, interdisciplinary areas of research that bring together core computer scientists and social scientists to understand, model, and enable computing and online experiences of the future.
To mark the 10th anniversary of Microsoft Research New England, a one-day symposium was held, which comprised of themed panels focused on mathematics and theory, economics, big data and machine learning, fairness, and social platforms. During this event, we welcomed researchers, faculty, and students from the academic community to discuss the future and advancing the state of the art.
2018 Charles River Lectures on Probability Theory and Related Topics
Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA | October 12, 2018
Jointly organized by Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Microsoft Research New England, the Charles River Lectures on Probability and Related Topics is a one-day event for the benefit of the greater Boston area mathematics community.
Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA | May 07, 2018
The seventh annual New England Machine Learning Day was held on Monday, May 07, 2018, at Microsoft Research New England, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The event brought together local academics and researchers in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and their applications.
2017
Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA | April 20-21, 2017
MATCH-UP 2017 was the fourth workshop in an interdisciplinary and international workshop series on matching under preferences.
Matching problems with preferences occur in widespread applications such as the assignment of school-leavers to universities, junior doctors to hospitals, students to campus housing, children to schools, kidney transplant patients to donors and so on. The common thread is that individuals have preference lists over the possible outcomes and the task is to find a matching of the participants that is in some sense optimal with respect to these preferences.
The remit of the workshop is to explore matching problems with preferences from the perspective of algorithms and complexity, discrete mathematics, combinatorial optimization, game theory, mechanism design and economics, and thus a key objective is to bring together the research communities of the related areas.
Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA | May 12, 2017
The sixth annual New England Machine Learning Day was held on Friday, May 12, 2017, at Microsoft Research New England, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The event brought together local academics and researchers in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and their applications.
Computational Aspects of Biological Information 2017
Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA | October 13, 2017
Computational Aspects of Biological Information (CABI) 2017 was the fifth one-day workshop on challenges and successes in computational biology and brought together experts in the Boston/Cambridge area to discuss computational solutions to problems in biology, including systems biology, genomics, and related areas.
2016
Computational Aspects of Biological Information 2016
Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA | November 2016
Computational Aspects of Biological Information (CABI) 2016 was the fourth one-day workshop on challenges and successes in computational biology and brought together experts in the Boston/Cambridge area to discuss computational solutions to problems in biology, including systems biology, genomics, and related areas.
Microsoft Research New England and MIT, Cambridge, MA | October 2016
The Workshop on Local Algorithms (WoLA) was the first in its series, and featured longer talks that, in part, survey approaches by various communities, as well as short, focused talks on recent, exciting results.
New England Machine Learning Day 2016
Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA | May 2016
The fifth annual New England Machine Learning Day was held on Friday, May 6th, 2016, at Microsoft Research New England. The event brought together local academics and researchers in machine learning and its applications.
2015
Computational Aspects of Biological Information 2015
Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA | December 2015
Computational Aspects of Biological Information (CABI) 2015 was the third one-day workshop on challenges and successes in computational biology and brought together experts in the Boston/Cambridge area to discuss computational solutions to problems in biology, including systems biology, genomics, and related areas.
2015 Charles River Lectures on Probability Theory and Related Topics
Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA | October 2015
Jointly organized by Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Microsoft Research New England, the Charles River Lectures on Probability and Related Topics is a one-day event for the benefit of the greater Boston area mathematics community.
Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA | October 2015
Designing the Digital Economy (DDE) is a day-and-a-half long conference bringing leading economists to Microsoft Research New England’s interdisciplinary economics research environment to discuss the new market designs technology is enabling.
MIT-MSR Machine Learning Seminar
Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA | October 2015
The MIT-MSR ML Seminar is a seminar series highlighting recent advances in Machine Learning that meets roughly once per month. Local and visiting researchers will speak about their work. The agenda typically consists of a prepared presentation, followed by a period of questions and discussion. The seminar is aimed at an audience of machine learning researchers and graduate students.
New England Machine Learning Day 2015
Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA | May 2015
The fourth annual New England Machine Learning Day was held on Monday, May 18th, 2015, at Microsoft Research New England. The event brought together local academics and researchers in machine learning and its applications.
2014
Computational Biology Seminar Series
Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA | June 2014
An occasional forum for delivering academic computational biology talks. All talks are open to the public.
Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA | February 2014
On February 13, 2014, we celebrated Butler Lampson’s 70 years with a day of exciting talks revisiting the history of computer systems and talking about issues of current concern. Butler spent many years, at Xerox PARC, at DEC, and now at Microsoft, transforming computer systems. His vision led to the first personal computer, to Internet protocols, to modern text processing systems and much more. He has won numerous awards for his work including the Turing Award in 1992.
2013
Computational Aspects of Biological Information 2013
Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA | December 2013
Computational Aspects of Biological Information (CABI) 2013 is a one day workshop on challenges in computational biology. CABI 2013 will be held at Microsoft Research New England on December 16, 2013 and will bring together experts in the Boston/Cambridge area to discuss computational solutions to problems in systems biology, genomics, and related areas.
MSRNE 5th Anniversary Symposium
Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA | October 2013
Since its founding in 2008, Microsoft Research New England has pursued new, interdisciplinary areas of research that bring together traditional mathematical sciences, such as theoretical computer science, machine learning, physics, and mathematics itself, with other sciences, including social sciences such as empirical economics, sociology, and psychology, and the biological and biomedical sciences.
New England Machine Learning Day 2013
Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA | May 2013
The second New England Machine Learning Day was held May 1st, 2013, at Microsoft Research New England. The event brought together local academics and researchers in machine learning and its applications.
2012
Charles River Lectures on Probability and Related Topics
Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA | October 2012
Jointly organized by Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Microsoft Research New England, the Charles River Lectures on Probability and Related Topics, is a one-day event for the benefit of the greater Boston area mathematics community.
Predicting and Understanding the 2012 Election
Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA | October 2012
A academic lectures of broad interest, in which David Rothschild discusses that for over 75 years, forecasting of elections has been static; ask a random sample of representative group of voters who they would vote for if the election were held today and report the poll result?
New England Machine Learning Day 2012
Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA | May 2012
The first New England Machine Learning Day was held May 16, 2012, at Microsoft Research New England. The event brought together local academics and researchers in machine learning and its applications.
ORCID Outreach Meeting May 2012
Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA | May 2012
Name ambiquity and attrition are persistent, critical problems embedded in the scholarly research ecosystem. The Open Researcher & Contributor ID (ORCID) initiative represents a community effort to establish an open, independent registry that is adopted and embraced as the industry’s de facto standard.
2011
Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA | May 2011
The Soc.Digital Mixer aims to connect scholars researching digital media communication and information technologies, particularly those studying social media from a qualitative perspective.
Soc.Digital Grad Student Meetup
Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA | May 2011
Microsoft Research New England’s Social Media Research Collective cordially invites digital media students in town for the International Communication Association Meetings to join us for an informal evening of conversation and collaboration.
Hot Apps: Queering Location/Mobilizing Media Design
Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA | April 2011
A Workshop Sponsored by the Social Media Collective @ Microsoft Research New England organized to think about what it means to “queer” the spatial and technological assumptions embedded in the industry shift toward mobile digital networks.
2010
Computational Aspects of Biological Information 2010
Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA | December 2010
Computational Aspects of Biological Information (C.A.B.I. 2010) is a one day workshop on challenges in computational biology. C.A.B.I. 2010 will be held at Microsoft Research New England on December 9, 2010 and will bring together experts in the Boston/Cambridge area to discuss computational and modeling challenges in biology with a focus on systems biology, phylogeny and neuroscience. The workshop is open to everyone and registration is free of charge.
2008
Microsoft Research New England Opening
Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA | September 2008
Microsoft Research New England is Microsoft’s sixth basic research lab worldwide, pursues interdisciplinary collaborations between core computer scientists and social scientists to explore how computing and online experiences will evolve. The lab’s opening symposium, held September 22, 2008, inaugurated a long-term partnership with institutions in a uniquely dynamic research environment
