https://www.amazon.science/tag/mit Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) en-US Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:00:00 GMT https://www.amazon.science/news/amazon-launches-68-million-ai-phd-fellowship-program Initiative will fund over 100 doctoral students researching machine learning, computer vision, and natural-language processing at nine universities. Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:00:00 GMT https://www.amazon.science/news/amazon-launches-68-million-ai-phd-fellowship-program https://www.amazon.science/news-and-features/amazon-and-mit-announce-science-hub-2023-gift-project-awards-and-fellowships Four professors awarded for research in machine learning and robotics; two doctoral candidates awarded fellowships. Tue, 19 Dec 2023 17:35:00 GMT https://www.amazon.science/news-and-features/amazon-and-mit-announce-science-hub-2023-gift-project-awards-and-fellowships https://www.amazon.science/news-and-features/amazon-and-mit-research-symposium-focused-on-cutting-edge-technology Attendees explored new avenues of research in areas including robotics and conversational AI via roundtables moderated by researchers from Amazon. Fri, 31 Mar 2023 18:38:11 GMT https://www.amazon.science/news-and-features/amazon-and-mit-research-symposium-focused-on-cutting-edge-technology https://www.amazon.science/blog/building-systems-that-automatically-adjust-to-workloads-and-data Tim Kraska, who joined Amazon this summer to build the new Learned Systems research group, explains the power of “instance optimization”. Thu, 03 Nov 2022 15:32:29 GMT https://www.amazon.science/blog/building-systems-that-automatically-adjust-to-workloads-and-data https://www.amazon.science/latest-news/five-mit-phd-students-named-as-inaugural-amazon-fellows Fellowships will provide support to pursue research in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics. Thu, 13 Oct 2022 19:30:00 GMT https://www.amazon.science/latest-news/five-mit-phd-students-named-as-inaugural-amazon-fellows https://www.amazon.science/publications/2021-amazon-last-mile-routing-research-challenge-data-set The 2021 Amazon Last Mile Routing Research Challenge, hosted by Amazon.com’s Last Mile Research team, and scientifically supported by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Transportation and Logistics, prompted participants to leverage real operational data to find new and better ways to solve a real-world routing problem. In this article, we describe the data set released for the research challenge, which includes route-, stop-, and package-level features for 9,184 historical routes performed by Amazon drivers in 2018 in five metropolitan areas in the United States. This real-world data set excludes any personally identifiable information: all route and package identifiers have been randomly regenerated and related location data have been obfuscated to ensure anonymity. Although multiple synthetic benchmark data sets are available in the literature, the data set of the 2021 Amazon Last Mile Routing Research Challenge is the first large and publicly available data set to include instances based on real-world operational routing data. Sat, 17 Sep 2022 20:31:06 GMT https://www.amazon.science/publications/2021-amazon-last-mile-routing-research-challenge-data-set https://www.amazon.science/academic-engagements/amazon-and-mit-announce-science-hub-gift-project-awards Four MIT professors are the recipients of the inaugural call for research projects. Wed, 13 Jul 2022 18:00:00 GMT https://www.amazon.science/academic-engagements/amazon-and-mit-announce-science-hub-gift-project-awards https://www.amazon.science/latest-news/at-amazon-robotics-simulation-gains-traction Scientists and engineers are developing a new generation of simulation tools accurate enough to develop and test robots virtually. Fri, 08 Apr 2022 13:29:36 GMT https://www.amazon.science/latest-news/at-amazon-robotics-simulation-gains-traction https://www.amazon.science/research-awards/success-stories/bits-into-atoms-atoms-into-bits A third digital revolution is coming, and Neil Gershenfeld is at the forefront. Thu, 21 Oct 2021 13:03:19 GMT https://www.amazon.science/research-awards/success-stories/bits-into-atoms-atoms-into-bits https://www.amazon.science/working-at-amazon/amazon-robotics-ai-leaders-believe-now-is-a-particularly-good-time-to-explore-careers-in-robotics Siddhartha Srinivasa, director of Amazon Robotics AI, and Nia Jetter, Amazon Robotics AI senior principal technologist, discuss inspiration, their roles at Amazon, and tips for pursuing a robotics career. Fri, 08 Oct 2021 12:03:40 GMT https://www.amazon.science/working-at-amazon/amazon-robotics-ai-leaders-believe-now-is-a-particularly-good-time-to-explore-careers-in-robotics