Ecology and environment
Developing and adopting technologies for scientific visualization and data management that accelerate insight in the environmental and earth sciences
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AI for Earth with Dr. Lucas Joppa
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Internships Ahoy! with Kirsten Bray, Wei Dai and Sara Beery
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Putting the cloud under the sea with Ben Cutler
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Research Intern – Power and Energy System
Microsoft Research is offering research internships to collaborate with a team of research scientists and software engineers who are building a simulation platform to study large-scale clean energy integration on the electric grid and electrification of the transportation, building heating, and industrial sectors. Research Internships at Microsoft provide a dynamic environment for research careers with a network of world-class research labs led by globally-recognized scientists and engineers. Our researchers and engineers pursue innovation in a…
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Research Intern – Forecasting & Data Science – Premonition
Health Futures is an interdisciplinary team of scientists, researchers, engineers, program managers and medical doctors who endeavor to develop next-generation methods and tools for health and healthcare. We offer a unique vibrant environment that features cutting-edge academic research, enterprise software development, and real-world delivery, with close feedback loops and rapid iterations among all three, much like a lean startup. Within Health Futures, Microsoft Premonition is a diverse team of engineers, scientists and entomologists that are…
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Bioacoustics
Bioacoustics is a cross-disciplinary science that combines biology and acoustics. Usually, it refers to the investigation of sound production, dispersion and reception in animals (including humans). In our research lab, we collaborate with conservation organizations and research labs to leverage machine learning and deep learning models to automatically process and analyze large volumes of audio recordings.
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Data & Applied Scientist – AI for Good
Using technology to address some of the greatest challenges facing humanity. This is what the AI for Good Research Lab at Microsoft does. We work on AI for good, sustainability and climate change, misinformation and the erosion of democracy, crimes against vulnerable populations, cybersecurity, and disaster response. These are some of the programs at Microsoft where we want you to apply your world-class expertise. Come to work every day knowing you are working on projects…
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Principal Data Scientist – AI for Good
Misinformation, AI for Humanitarian Action, AI for Earth, AI for accessibility, Digital Crimes, Sustainability, Cybersecurity, Open data. These are some of the programs at Microsoft where you can apply your world-class expertise to have a huge impact on global and local challenges. Come to work every day and contribute to projects that help save lives, alleviate suffering, and restore human dignity. Use the power of technology and AI to promote human rights, increase accessibility for…
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Unsupervised Machine Learning framework for sensor placement optimization: analyzing methane leaks
Methane is one of the most potent greenhouse gases, with the global oil and gas industry being the second largest source of anthropogenic methane emissions, accounting for about 63% of the whole energy sector. This underscores the importance of detecting and remediating methane leaks for the entire oil and gas value chain. Methane sensor networks are a promising technology to detect methane leaks in a timely manner. While they provide near-real-time monitoring of an area…
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Mapping industrial poultry operations at scale with deep learning and aerial imagery
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) pose serious risks to air, water, and public health, but have proven to be challenging to regulate. The U.S. Government Accountability Office notes that a basic challenge is the lack of comprehensive location information on CAFOs. We use the USDA’s National Agricultural Imagery Program (NAIP) 1m/pixel aerial imagery to detect poultry CAFOs across the continental United States. We train convolutional neural network (CNN) models to identify individual poultry barns and…
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TorchGeo: deep learning with geospatial data
Remotely sensed geospatial data are critical for applications including precision agriculture, urban planning, disaster monitoring and response, and climate change research, among others. Deep learning methods are particularly promising for modeling many remote sensing tasks given the success of deep neural networks in similar computer vision tasks and the sheer volume of remotely sensed imagery available. However, the variance in data collection methods and handling of geospatial metadata make the application of deep learning methodology…
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MSRA Researcher Manager
Founded in 1998, Microsoft Research Asia (MSR Asia, or MSRA) is the largest Microsoft Research lab outside the United States. As one of the world-class research labs, MSRA offers an exhilarating and supportive environment for cutting-edge, multidisciplinary research, both theoretical and applied. Attracting and nurturing top technical talents is one of the priorities of MSRA since it’s funded. We are long for strong, passionate researchers and research managers at various levels in all areas of…
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Research for Industries (RFI) Lecture Series: Steven K. Frey
Physics-based groundwater – surface water modeling at continental scale Aquanty, which is a research spin off from the University of Waterloo, is at the forefront of developing state-of-the-art fully-integrated hydrologic models to better understand and predict water resource behavior and availability under both near term weather, and long term climate change scenarios. Aquanty’s flagship software platform, HydroGeoSphere (HGS), is a state-of-the-art fully-integrated GW-SW simulator that can couple with both weather forecasts and future climate scenarios…