You must be a PhD student in computer vision or NLP with 1 year of deep learning experience, proficiency in Python/C++, and published works in top conferences/journals. Willingness to relocate for internship.

You will collaborate with researchers, present findings, and contribute to exciting research and development projects in Azure AI: Visual Document Intelligence as a Research Intern at Microsoft.

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United States

Redmond

Fortune 500

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<ul><li>The mission of the Cognitive Services Visual Document Intelligence team in the Azure AI organization is to make fundamental contributions to advancing the state-of-the-art in artificial intelligence (AI) technology related to document understanding. “Documents” stand at the intersection between natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV) research. To fully understand a document, one needs to borrow from both language and visual (Layout) elements of the document. We explore both these research areas – and their synergy - to conduct research on forward-looking topics such as key-value extraction, few-shot named entity recognition (NER), hierarchical layout analysis, and many others.&nbsp;</li><li>We are looking for passionate Research Interns to work on cutting edge research in Document Understanding. We are particularly interested in research interns with a background in AI, NLP, and/or CV, including topics like layout analysis, chart understanding, multi-page multi-document question answering, novel ways of leveraging large language models for document understanding and solving problems inherent to large language models (grounding, retrieval-based generation, etc.). Familiarity with modern large language models is a plus, but not required.&nbsp;</li><li>In this position, you will conduct both fundamental and applied research under the supervision of Microsoft mentors. As a Research Intern, you will have the opportunity to prototype, demonstrate and publish your results.&nbsp;</li></ul>

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The mission of the Cognitive Services Visual Document Intelligence team in the Azure AI organization is to make fundamental contributions to advancing the state-of-the-art in artificial intelligence (AI) technology related to document understanding. “Documents” stand at the intersection between natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV) research. To fully understand a document, one needs to borrow from both language and visual (Layout) elements of the document. We explore both these research areas – and their synergy - to conduct research on forward-looking topics such as key-value extraction, few-shot named entity recognition (NER), hierarchical layout analysis, and many others. We are looking for passionate Research Interns to work on cutting edge research in Document Understanding. We are particularly interested in research interns with a background in AI, NLP, and/or CV, including topics like layout analysis, chart understanding, multi-page multi-document question answering, novel ways of leveraging large language models for document understanding and solving problems inherent to large language models (grounding, retrieval-based generation, etc.). Familiarity with modern large language models is a plus, but not required. In this position, you will conduct both fundamental and applied research under the supervision of Microsoft mentors. As a Research Intern, you will have the opportunity to prototype, demonstrate and publish your results. 

Research Intern - Azure AI: Visual Document Intelligence

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