Automation, achieved with AI and next-generation robots, can improve the customer experience, according to Nia Jetter, Amazon senior principal technologist. She’s also blazing trails by lowering barriers to understanding technology and cultivating a diverse workforce. #Robotics

.Amazon Science and Hopkins have announced the latest recipients of AI2AI fellowships and research awards! Based in the Whiting School, AI2AI drives AI advances with an emphasis on ML, computer vision, natural-language understanding, and speech processing. engineering.jhu.edu/news/johns-hop…

Amazon Science published a profile of one of the interns I worked with over the summer. We might have spots next summer so give it a read if you'd like to learn more about the experience or the work.
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Checkable proofs help verify SAT solvers' solutions to SAT problems, but they're hard to generate for incremental SAT problems, whose constraints are added one by one. In a paper Amazon researchers are presenting at #FMCAD2023 , they overcome this limitation.

Check out this cool work from Jiachen Li Amazon Science that establishes a new SOTA on multi-modal prompted robot manipulation tasks 🤖🖼️📝

Announcing the second-year recipients of PhD fellowships and faculty research awards as part of the Johns Hopkins Engineering + Amazon Initiative for Interactive AI (AI2AI). Meet the recipients, and learn how the initiative is driving ground-breaking AI advancements. #HopkinsEngineer

🚨How to generate summaries w/ fine-grained readability-level control?

In our new #EMNLP2023 main paper, we develop 3 readability-control methods via instruction-prompting, RL, & lookahead decoding.

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Mohit Bansal Markus Dreyer Amazon Science UNC NLP

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DevOps engineers operate and manage applications on Amazon Web Services, and can often be subject to repetitive work. To automate common tasks, Margarida Ferreira, former AWS applied science intern, combined program synthesis and constraint programming to simplify systems management. #AWS

I received the Amazon SCOT/INFORMS scholarship to attend the INFORMS Annual Meeting this year! It's been wonderful meeting the other students in the program. Thank you to both organizations for their support! INFORMS Amazon Science #INFORMS2023

Meet the 2023 cohort of the SCOT/INFORMS scholarship program! Recipients are invited to attend INFORMS, connect with Amazon scientists, and more. Learn how the program is helping to expand the talent pipeline for those from underrepresented backgrounds. #INFORMS2023

Amazon researchers are developing algorithms that can learn to schedule by harnessing data from past experiments. In a sequence of recent papers, they describe three phases of their research. #MachineLearning amazon.science/blog/learning-…

A new approach from Amazon researchers uses a foundation vision-language model to achieve state-of-the-art results on the task of deciding where a linguistically specified object can be found. #IROS2023 #Robotics

Honoured to be named an Amazon ML Fellow for 2023-24! 🥹

I cannot thank Sean (Xiang) Ren and Swabha Swayamdipta enough for their guidance and trust + the entire USC NLP group for providing an environment created for healthy and exciting discussions throughout! 🙌🏼

Earlier this week, Allen School hosted an Amazon Lunch & Learn Career Panel, where over 100 graduate students gathered to hear from Amazon scientists about their career path and what it's like to do science at Amazon. Thanks to all who attended! #UWAllen

Announcing the six research projects selected by the USC Viterbi School + Amazon Center on Secure and Trusted Machine Learning. Meet the recipients and learn more about their work. #USC #ML amazon.science/news-and-featu…

To predict minute-by-minute demand months into the future, Amazon Web Services teams use CloudTune Forecasting, which can forecast capacity not just for peak events like #PrimeDay —but peak times for any day, week, or month around the world. #Economics

Announcing the third session chair of the 2023 edition:

Aleix Martinez (Aleix M. Martinez), Sr. Principal Scientist at Amazon Science. He was a keynote speaker of DLBCN 2021.

3 CS PhD students have been named as this year's Amazon Fellows as part of the JHU + Amazon Science AI2AI initiative. Learn more about the fellows here:
cs.jhu.edu/news/3-graduat…

Excited about this paper that describes the innovations we did as part of EMMA, an Embodied AI system that was one of the finalists in the Amazon Science Simbot Challenge. I'm planning to attend #EMNLP2023 and I look forward to discussing V+L models and Embodied AI with you!

How can Amazon deliver a work experience that supports the needs of all employees? It’s questions like this that Amazon Visiting Academic Jessie Handbury is helping to answer, drawing on her economics expertise to deliver an equitable employee experience. #Economics