Last Wednesday, Microsoft Advertising sponsored the 13th Seattle Girl Geek Dinner. For those of you that haven’t heard of the Girl Geek Dinner community, it was started by a woman in London, who had a vision for geeky women across the globe to have informal community that facilitated learning, networking, and fun. Liz Morgan, a Talent Strategist for the Online Services Division started the Seattle community back in 2008. This is Microsoft...
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My name is Wei Chu. I am an Applied Researcher on Bing’s contextual relevance team. The mission of this team is to bring personalization in the user search experience. My commitment is to improve Bing search results by introducing significant signals relevant to personalized search relevance. I am doing applied research on learning from large-scale data. The most challenging step is to identify and formulate individual problems which could...
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When I was first contacted by a corporate recruiter on professional network/career website, the first thing I thought was:  is this a joke…construction contract management at Microsoft?  When I learned that Microsoft is heavily involved in constructing and operating data centers domestically and worldwide, I was hooked.    With my educational background (Juris Doctor & Masters in Business Administration with an...
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