About

Bridging Academia and Industry brings you from time to time some discussion in the broad area of Big Data and Machine Learning. I will discuss papers from recent conferences, and I will often include some additional background for readers who are not familiar with the research literature. I also try to include my own thinking about each paper.

For over 15 years, I was a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University, and it was easy for me to find the time to stay abreast of the research literature. Now in industry, I am much more pressed for time: I ship software, make my team successful, visit customers, and talk with partners, but I still want to stay up to date with what is going on in the field. When I asked around, I found that most of my colleagues have the same goal, but find it equally hard to keep up to date. This blog tries to fill the gap between research in academia and practitioners who want to understand cutting-edge results and how they may be relevant to their daily work. I am trying to select papers who I think will be interesting for anybody who wants to keep up with Big Data and Machine Learning. 

If you want to recommend a paper or have any other suggestions how to improve this blog, send me an email.

About me:  I am a Technical Fellow in the Experiences and Devices Group at Microsoft, where I have been full-time since 2013. I came to Microsoft with the vision to build Delve and the Office Graph, and I now work on Big Data and Machine Learning in Office 365, building the intelligent communications and conversations cloud. From 1999 to 2015, I was on the faculty in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University . You can reach me at johannes at microsoft dot com.

Disclaimer: Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this blog are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer.