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The AVA program is aimed at pre-tenure to newly-tenured academics who seek to apply research methods to tackle complex technical challenges while continuing their university work.
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The program offers recent PhD graduates an opportunity to advance research while working alongside experienced scientists with backgrounds in industry and academia.
Our academics
Meet some of our Scholars and Visiting Academics at Amazon.
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Watch some of the latest videos featuring our Academics.
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Academics discuss computer vision at Amazon | CVPR 2021
Amazon Scholars at KDD 2021
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Academics discuss computer vision at Amazon | CVPR 2021
During the annual conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), Amazon Scholars and Amazon Visiting Academics held a panel discussion on computer vision at Amazon.
I love developing algorithms and building systems that work in every-day products. Being an Amazon Scholar allows me to do this at a scale far beyond my university role.
Thorsten Joachims, Professor of Computer Science/ML, Cornell University
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Credit: Ann WatsonApril 21, 2022Amazon Scholar Eugene Agichtein on incorporating knowledge into natural-language-processing models, multimodal interactions, and more.
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April 15, 2022Professorship named after influential former University of Michigan professor.
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April 14, 2022Paper proposes a method to better and more equitably place COVID vaccine clinics to encourage more vaccinations.
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Courtesy of Luciana BuriolApril 13, 2022The principal research scientist shares lessons learned during her life journey from a small farm to working on optimizing Amazon’s distribution network.
