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New Amazon graduate research fellows announced at Carnegie Mellon

Amazon just expanded its AI talent pipeline at Carnegie Mellon.

Reporting by Amazon Science 1 min brief
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Amazon's fellowship program signals strategic investment in emerging AI talent across key research areas including machine learning and computer vision, potentially giving them early access to top researchers.

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  1. Program launched in 2021

  2. Covers 7 research areas: automated reasoning, computer vision, robotics, language technology, machine learning, operations research, and data science

  3. Partnership with Carnegie Mellon University

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Publisher excerpt: Graduate Research Fellows Program, launched in 2021, supports research in automated reasoning, computer vision, robotics, language technology, machine learning, operations research, and data science.
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