Dear corpora readers:

We -- Danielle Bragg, Alex Lu, and Hal Daumé III -- are looking to hire research interns to work on data-driven accessibility research projects, alongside leading researchers and engineers in the field. We are recruiting both graduate research interns and undergraduate research interns for Summer 2023. (ASL recruitment video: https://youtu.be/Gb-8CTpKxhU.)

Our team takes a human-centered and data-driven approach to advancing the state of accessible technologies. Recent work has focused on data collection methods, sign language modeling, understanding concerns and perspectives of user communities, and building novel apps and experiences. You can learn more about some of the team’s recent efforts at the data-driven accessibility systems page https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/data-driven-accessibility-systems/. These positions sit within Microsoft Research New York City, with opportunities to collaborate with Microsoft Research New England and others across the company. Our team is highly interdisciplinary and offers the opportunity to interact with diverse researchers.

For graduate students, please apply (short research statement and two letters) at the Research Intern Portal https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/1483492/Research-Intern-Data-Driven-Accessibility .

For undergraduate students, please apply to the MSR Undergraduate Research Internship and mention one or more of us by name (CV, 2-3 reference letters, and two essays) at the Undergraduate Research Intern Portal https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/undergraduate-research-internship-computing/ .

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/accommodationrequest.

Sincerely, Danielle Bragg, Alex Lu, and Hal Daumé III