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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>FYI<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> David Salesin [mailto:salesin@snap.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 6, 2018 9:55 PM<br><b>To:</b> David Salesin <salesin@snap.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Snap Research Call for Interns<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Snap Research is offering internships for spring, summer, and fall of 2019. We are looking for PhD students who are excited about pushing the state of the art in computer science areas such as graphics, vision, human-computer interaction, machine learning, natural language processing, deep learning, data science and more -- in ways that could be of interest to Snap Inc. as well as to the research community at large. We have just started recruiting, and we would love to hear from you!</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>You will collaborate with one or more researchers, with access to world-class product groups and design teams. We explore opportunities for technology transfer and regularly publish in leading journals and conferences. We are especially interested in fostering ongoing collaborations and are open to projects that last beyond the internship. We compensate interns well and provide access to large computational resources. We strive to create an environment that is both productive and fun.</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Our team currently includes the following areas and researchers: </span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Computational Imaging --- New York City and Seattle: </span></b><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Shree Nayar <snayar>: Computational Imaging, Computer Vision, Computer Graphics</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Austin Reiter <areiter>: Computational Imaging, Action Recognition, 3D Reconstruction</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Guru Krishnan <guru>: Computational Imaging, Computer Vision, Acoustic Signal Processing</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Jian Wang <jwang4>: Computational Imaging, Computational Photography, 3D Reconstruction</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Karl Bayer <kbayer>: Robotics, Human-Computer Interfaces, 3D Modeling, Rapid Prototyping</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Computer Vision and Deep Learning --- Santa Monica and San Francisco: </span></b><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Ning Xu <ning.xu>: Deep learning, Image/Video Processing, Computer Vision, Audio/Speech</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Sergey Tulyakov <stulyakov>: generative modeling, facial analysis</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Yuncheng Li <<a href="http://yuncheng.li">yuncheng.li</a>>: object detection, pose estimation</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Ziyu Zhang <zzhang3>: vision and language, generative modeling, instance segmentation</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Will Brendel <william.brendel>: unsupervised deep learning, quadratic optimization, Computer Vision</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Qieyun Dai <qdai>: object detection, semantic segmentation</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Ian Enxu Yan <eyan2>: accelerating deep learning, inference, and search.</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Computer Graphics --- Santa Monica and San Francisco: </span></b><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Linjie Luo <linjie.luo>: 3D reconstruction and understanding, augmented and virtual reality</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Chen Cao <chen.cao>: 3D face modeling and tracking, facial image & video manipulation</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Chongyang Ma <cma>: deep generative models, 3D reconstruction, video synthesis</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>David Salesin <salesin>: digital photography & video, non-photorealistic rendering (NPR), visualization</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Menglei Chai <mchai>: image-based reconstruction, image & video editing, 3D portrait modeling</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Yingying Wang <ywang>: deep learning for motion synthesis, motion style transfer, 2D cartoon animation</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Zehao Xue <zehao.xue>: character animation(face,body), character rigging, AR&VR, mocap, 3D printing</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Olly Woodford <oliver.woodford>: SLAM, 3D reconstruction, camera/object tracking, AR</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) --- Santa Monica and Seattle: </span></b><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Andrés Monroy-Hernández <amh>: social computing systems (lately using wearables and AR)</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Rajan Vaish <rvaish>: crowdsourcing, AR and Mixed Reality, mobile and social computing</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Maarten Bos <maarten>: behavioral science</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Brian Smith <bsmith>: interaction design, interaction techniques, game design, AR, input methods</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Ian Wehrman <iwehrman>: user-experience design; web development</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Joel Brandt <jbrandt>: creative design tools</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Maria Pavlovskaia <maria>: rapid prototyping and new app development across all research products </span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Natural Language Processing (NLP) --- Santa Monica: </span></b><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Luis Marujo <luis>: Text Understanding, Multi-Modal Retrieval, Deep Learning for NLP </span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Leo Neves <lneves>: Document Representation, Entity Linking, Multimodal learning, Bias mitigation </span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Pradeep Karuturi <pradeep>: sentiment/emotion analysis, content quality/sensitivity, NLP engineering</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Data Science and Data Mining --- Santa Monica: </span></b><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Neil Shah <nshah>: misbehavior detection, content moderation, user behavior modeling, network analysis</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Colin Eles <celes>: software engineering, inf</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>rastructure development, inference and training pipelines</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>To apply, please send an email to <a href="mailto:research-internships@snap.com">research-internships@snap.com</a> with your CV, a list of your research interests, and any specific researchers you would like to work with. Also feel free to contact researchers directly at their email address: <researcher-alias>@<a href="http://snap.com">snap.com</a>. Internships will be granted on a rolling basis, so apply as soon as possible.</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>