Research Internships at Microsoft provide a dynamic environment for research careers with a network of world-class research labs led by globally-recognized scientists and engineers, who pursue innovation in a range of scientific and technical disciplines to help solve complex challenges in diverse fields, including computing, healthcare, economics, and the environment.

This position is for a Research Internship with the EPIC (Extended Perception, Interaction & Cognition) research group in Microsoft Research’s Redmond Lab. We have multiple positions available. Research Internships will be focused on creating new interactive experiences that “blend artificial and human intelligence”. Topics range from coupling the power of generative AI techniques with interaction design to reinvent how we work with content, to building the next generation of multi-modal interfaces adapting in real time to user task and contexts.

 

Sought-after skills and topics of interest for this Research Internship include (but are not limited to):

Generative AI: LLMs, stable diffusion, vision models (LLAVA, GPT4V), ControlNet, and related technologies for interactive applications.HCI system building: hands-on builders of interesting HCI systems, techniques, and toolkits, especially when leveraging generative AI, software prototyping with the web stack (javascript, node.js, react).Interaction design: experience with devising multimodal interactions (touch, pen, speech), context sensing, responsive & adaptive UIs.Experience design: storyboarding, envisioning video techniques, wizard of oz, animations.

 

We value your ideas and unique viewpoints on these topics, as well, and hope that our partnership and collaboration will shape initial directions into exciting, ambitious, and impactful research contributions that only you could have crafted.

 

The EPIC group conducts fundamental research that innovates at the nexus of hardware, software, and human potential. We are an interdisciplinary group of researchers, engineers, scientists, and designers at Microsoft Research who study Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) through prototyping, system-building, design sketching, and observational study of human behavior. You can learn more about the EPIC’s research agenda, publications, videos, and team members at EPIC - Microsoft Research, as well as the broader HCI-AI research area Future Experiences.