Ecology and environment
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Matching and Dynamic Pricing in Ride-Hailing Platforms
Ride-hailing platforms like Uber, Lyft, Didi Chuxing, and Ola are transforming urban mobility by connecting riders with drivers via the sharing economy. These platforms have achieved explosive growth, in part by dramatically improving the efficiency…
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Central Engineering
The Microsoft Research Redmond Lab’s Central Engineering Team develops software and hardware technologies and components based on Microsoft Research innovations.
Microsoft Research Blog
Give your dissertation a boost with a grant from Microsoft Research
Need funding to clear a hurdle in the final stages of your dissertation research? Microsoft Research is offering grants of up to US $25,000 to help a select group of doctoral students cross the finish…
Microsoft Research Blog
I Chose STEM – Event Recap
Earlier this week Microsoft Research Montreal celebrated the International Day of Women and Girls in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) with a one-day symposium: I Chose STEM. More than 200 Canadian STEM students and…
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Panel Discussion: AI & Society
The Academic Research Summit 2018 is a forum to foster meaningful discussion among the Indian Computer Science research community and enable collaborations to advance the state of the art and raise the bar on research…
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The Power of Simple Algorithms: From Data Science to Biological Systems
In this talk I will discuss the power of simple, randomized methods such as hashing, importance sampling, and stochastic iteration in data science and machine learning. In particular, I will overview my efforts to apply…
