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October 18, 2022 October 20, 2022

Microsoft Research Summit 2022

Location: Virtual

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David Alvarez-Melis

Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research New England

Sessions presenting

Track: Efficient Large-Scale AI

Lightning talks: Skills acquisition and new capabilities


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Ava Amini (Soleimany)

Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research New England

Sessions presenting

Track: Precision Health — From Discovery to Delivery

Lightning talks: AI in life sciences


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Alberto Arribas Herranz

Europe Lead for Corporate Environmental Sustainability Science, Microsoft

Sessions presenting

Track: Enabling a Resilient and Sustainable World

Panel discussion and research talk: Computational advances in climate risk assessment


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Jeremy Avigad

Professor of Philosophy and Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University

Sessions presenting

Track: Amplifying Human Productivity and Creativity

Lightning talks: Empowering mathematicians with technology



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Chris Bailey

JD Candidate, University of Illinois

Sessions presenting

Track: Enabling a Resilient and Sustainable World

Research talk: Correct computational law and civil procedure with the Lean Proof Assistant


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Jiang Bian

Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research Asia

Sessions presenting

Track: Enabling a Resilient and Sustainable World

Lightning talks: Sustainably nourishing the world


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Carlo Bifulco

CMO, Genomics, Providence Health

Sessions presenting

Track: Precision Health — From Discovery to Delivery

Lightning talks: AI in healthcare



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Beth Blauer

Associate Vice Provost for Public Sector Innovation, Johns Hopkins University

Sessions presenting

Track: Enabling a Resilient and Sustainable World

Panel discussion: From science to policy: Decision-making under uncertainty for global emergencies


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Geff Brown

Associate General Counsel, Microsoft Privacy and Regulatory Affairs

Sessions presenting

Track: Building User Trust Through Privacy, Identity, and Responsible AI

Panel discussion: From privacy research to policy, regulations and standards


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Bill Buxton

Partner Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond

Sessions presenting

Track: Amplifying Human Productivity and Creativity

Panel discussion: Is the future of the metaverse work or play?


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Gustau Camps-Valls

Professor, University of Valencia

Sessions presenting

Track: Enabling a Resilient and Sustainable World

Panel discussion and research talk: Computational advances in climate risk assessment


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Ranveer Chandra

Managing Director, Research for Industry; Partner Manager, Networking Research; CTO, Agri-Food, Microsoft Research Redmond

Sessions presenting

Track: Enabling a Resilient and Sustainable World

Lightning talks: Sustainably nourishing the world

Track: Future of the Cloud

Research talk: Low-latency, ​real-time insights ​from space


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Nishanth Chandran

Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research India

Sessions presenting

Track: Enabling a Resilient and Sustainable World

Lightning talks: Sustainably nourishing the world



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Yejin Choi

Brett Helsel Professor of Computer Science, University of Washington, AI2

Sessions presenting

Track: Efficient Large-Scale AI

Fireside chat: What’s next in large-scale AI


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Scott Counts

Senior Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research Redmond

Sessions presenting

Track: Enabling a Resilient and Sustainable World

Panel discussion: Towards climate-smart cities: IoT networks for air pollution sensing


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Rachel Cummings

Assistant Professor, Columbia University

Sessions presenting

Track: Building User Trust Through Privacy, Identity, and Responsible AI

Research talks: An investigation into user expectations for differential privacy


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Marc-Alexandre Côté

Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Montréal

Sessions presenting

Track: Efficient Large-Scale AI

Lightning talks: Aligning models with human intent


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Madeleine Isabelle Daepp

Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond

Sessions presenting

Track: Enabling a Resilient and Sustainable World

Panel discussion: Towards climate-smart cities: IoT networks for air pollution sensing


Qi Dai wearing glasses and smiling at the camera

Qi Dai

Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia

Sessions presenting

Track: Amplifying Human Productivity and Creativity

Lightning talks: AI for visual content creation


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Leonardo de Moura

Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond

Sessions presenting

Track: Amplifying Human Productivity and Creativity

Lightning talks: Empowering mathematicians with technology


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Sam Devlin

Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge

Sessions presenting

Track: Amplifying Human Productivity and Creativity

Panel discussion: From AI research to application in AAA-games


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Eleanor Dillon

Principal Economist, Microsoft Research New England

Sessions presenting

Track: Enabling a Resilient and Sustainable World

Panel discussion and research talk: Computational advances in climate risk assessment


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Mischa Dohler

Chief Architect, Advanced Technology Group, Ericsson Inc

Sessions presenting

Track: Amplifying Human Productivity and Creativity

Panel discussion: Is the future of the metaverse work or play?


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Susan Dumais

Technical Fellow and Managing Director, Microsoft Research New England, NYC, and Montréal

Sessions presenting

Track: Efficient Large-Scale AI

Fireside chat: What’s next in large-scale AI


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Rebecca Finlay

CEO, Partnership on AI

Sessions presenting

Track: Building User Trust Through Privacy, Identity, and Responsible AI

Panel discussion: From privacy research to policy, regulations and standards


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Simon Frost

Principal Data Scientist, Microsoft Health Futures

Sessions presenting

Track: Enabling a Resilient and Sustainable World

Panel discussion: From science to policy: Decision-making under uncertainty for global emergencies


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Esha Ghosh

Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond

Sessions presenting

Track: Building User Trust Through Privacy, Identity, and Responsible AI

Lightning talks: The identity revolution: Centering trust on people



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Mar Gonzalez-Franco

Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond

Sessions presenting

Track: Amplifying Human Productivity and Creativity

Panel discussion: Is the future of the metaverse work or play?


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Mary L. Gray

Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research New England

Sessions presenting

Plenary: The future of human health


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Seth Hain

Senior Vice President of R&D, Epic

Sessions presenting

Plenary: The future of human health


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Song Han

Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sessions presenting

Track: Efficient Large-Scale AI

Lightning talks: Training and inference efficiency


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Michael Hansen

Senior Director, Biomedical Signal Processing, Microsoft Health Futures

Sessions presenting

Track: Precision Health — From Discovery to Delivery

Lightning talks: AI in healthcare


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Kenn Harper

Vice President and General Manager, Nuance, a Microsoft company

Sessions presenting

Track: Precision Health — From Discovery to Delivery

Panel discussion: Ambient clinical intelligence, the next frontier of AI


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Yuxiong He

Partner Research Manager, DeepSpeed, Microsoft

Sessions presenting

Track: Efficient Large-Scale AI

Lightning talks: Training and inference efficiency


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Eric Horvitz

Technical Fellow and Chief Scientific Officer, Microsoft

Sessions presenting

Track: Enabling a Resilient and Sustainable World

Panel discussion: From science to policy: Decision-making under uncertainty for global emergencies

Track: Efficient Large-Scale AI

Fireside chat: What’s next in large-scale AI


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Jessica Hullman

Associate Professor, Northwestern University

Sessions presenting

Track: Building User Trust Through Privacy, Identity, and Responsible AI

Research talks: An investigation into user expectations for differential privacy


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Katsu Ikeuchi

Senior Principal Research Manager, Microsoft

Sessions presenting

Track: Amplifying Human Productivity and Creativity

Research talk: Numerical weak AI and symbolic strong AI


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Kori Inkpen

Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond

Sessions presenting

Track: Amplifying Human Productivity and Creativity

Panel discussion: Is the future of the metaverse work or play?


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Uma Jayaram

GM of SEED, Electronic Arts

Sessions presenting

Track: Amplifying Human Productivity and Creativity

Panel discussion: From AI research to application in AAA-games


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Pieter Kasselman

Principal Identity Standards Architect, Microsoft Security

Sessions presenting

Track: Building User Trust Through Privacy, Identity, and Responsible AI

Panel discussion: From privacy research to policy, regulations and standards


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Katie Kelly

Principal PM, Microsoft Mesh

Sessions presenting

Track: Amplifying Human Productivity and Creativity

Panel discussion: Is the future of the metaverse work or play?


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Najat Khan

Chief Data Science Officer and Global Head, Strategy & Operations, Janssen Research & Development, LLC

Sessions presenting

Track: Precision Health — From Discovery to Delivery

Keynote with guests: Accelerating precision health through scientific innovation and discovery


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Jim Kleewein

Technical Fellow, Microsoft 365

Sessions presenting

Track: Future of the Cloud

Panel discussion: Emerging computing technologies in academia and industry



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Yaa Kumah-Crystal

Clinical Director HealthIT, Pediatric Endocrinology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Sessions presenting

Track: Precision Health — From Discovery to Delivery

Panel discussion: Ambient clinical intelligence, the next frontier of AI


headshot of Yasuo Kuniyoshi

Yasuo Kuniyoshi

Director of AI Center, Professor at School of Info Sci & Tech, The University of Tokyo

Sessions presenting

Track: Amplifying Human Productivity and Creativity

Research talk: Numerical weak AI and symbolic strong AI


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Cornelia Kutterer

Senior Director, Head of Responsible Tech & Competition, Microsoft European Government Affairs

Sessions presenting

Track: Building User Trust Through Privacy, Identity, and Responsible AI

Panel discussion: From privacy research to policy, regulations and standards


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Peter Lee

Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research and Incubations

Sessions presenting

Plenary: The future of human health


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Qingwei Lin

Sr. Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research Asia

Sessions presenting

Track: Future of the Cloud

Research talk: Cloud Intelligence/AIOps – Infusing AI into cloud computing


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Tie-Yan Liu

Distinguished Scientist, Assistant Managing Director, Microsoft Research AI4Science

Sessions presenting

Plenary: The fifth paradigm of scientific discovery


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Ashley Llorens

Vice President, Distinguished Scientist & Managing Director, Microsoft Research Outreach

Sessions presenting

Plenary: The fifth paradigm of scientific discovery

Track: Efficient Large-Scale AI

Keynote with guests: Toward AI that empowers more people more of the time


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Gabrielle Loisel

Writer and educator, Botnik Studios

Sessions presenting

Track: Efficient Large-Scale AI

Keynote with guests: Toward AI that empowers more people more of the time


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Alex Long

Program Associate, The Wilson Center

Sessions presenting

Track: Enabling a Resilient and Sustainable World

Panel discussion: From science to policy: Decision-making under uncertainty for global emergencies


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Scott Lundberg

Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond

Sessions presenting

Track: Efficient Large-Scale AI

Lightning talks: Aligning models with human intent


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Heather Macbeth

Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Fordham University

Sessions presenting

Track: Amplifying Human Productivity and Creativity

Lightning talks: Empowering mathematicians with technology


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David Maltz

Technical Fellow & CVP, Microsoft Azure

Sessions presenting

Track: Future of the Cloud

Panel discussion: Emerging computing technologies in academia and industry


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Sara Malvar

Senior Research Software Development Engineer, Microsoft Research

Sessions presenting

Track: Enabling a Resilient and Sustainable World

Lightning talks: Sustainably nourishing the world


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Youichiro Miyake

General Manager, AI Division, SQUARE ENIX

Sessions presenting

Track: Amplifying Human Productivity and Creativity

Panel discussion: From AI research to application in AAA-games


headshot of Ida Momennejad

Ida Momennejad

Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research NYC

Sessions presenting

Track: Efficient Large-Scale AI

Lightning talks: Skills acquisition and new capabilities


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Greg Moore

Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research & Incubations

Sessions presenting

Plenary: The future of human health

Track: Precision Health — From Discovery to Delivery

Panel discussion: Ambient clinical intelligence, the next frontier of AI


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Subhabrata Mukherjee

Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond

Sessions presenting

Track: Efficient Large-Scale AI

Lightning talks: Training and inference efficiency


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Karthik Narasimhan

Assistant Professor, Princeton University

Sessions presenting

Track: Efficient Large-Scale AI

Lightning talks: Aligning models with human intent


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Leonardo Nunes

Principal Research Engineer, Microsoft Research Redmond

Sessions presenting

Track: Enabling a Resilient and Sustainable World

Lightning talks: Sustainably nourishing the world


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Michael Ogletree

Director, Air Pollution Control Division, Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment

Sessions presenting

Track: Enabling a Resilient and Sustainable World

Panel discussion: Towards climate-smart cities: IoT networks for air pollution sensing


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Ozan Oktay

Principal Researcher, Microsoft Health Futures

Sessions presenting

Track: Precision Health — From Discovery to Delivery

Lightning talks: AI in healthcare


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Christian Paquin

Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Research Redmond

Sessions presenting

Track: Building User Trust Through Privacy, Identity, and Responsible AI

Lightning talks: The identity revolution: Centering trust on people


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Francesca Parmigiani

Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge

Sessions presenting

Track: Future of the Cloud

Research talk: Computing at the speed of light


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Jared Pelo

Chief Clinical Product Officer, DAX, Nuance, a Microsoft company

Sessions presenting

Track: Precision Health — From Discovery to Delivery

Panel discussion: Ambient clinical intelligence, the next frontier of AI


headshot of Joe Petro

Joe Petro

Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Nuance, a Microsoft company

Sessions presenting

Plenary: The future of human health


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Anthony Philippakis

Chief Data Officer, Institute Scientist, Broad Institute

Sessions presenting

Track: Precision Health — From Discovery to Delivery

Keynote with guests: Accelerating precision health through scientific innovation and discovery


headshot of Hoifung Poon

Hoifung Poon

Senior Director, Microsoft Health Futures

Sessions presenting

Track: Precision Health — From Discovery to Delivery

Lightning talks: AI in healthcare


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Jonathan Protzenko

Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond

Sessions presenting

Track: Enabling a Resilient and Sustainable World

Research talk: Correct computational law and civil procedure with the Lean Proof Assistant


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Colin Raffel

Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Sessions presenting

Track: Efficient Large-Scale AI

Lightning talks: Skills acquisition and new capabilities



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Mark Russinovich

CTO and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure

Sessions presenting

Plenary: Emerging foundations for planet-scale computing


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Kevin Scott

Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Technology & Research

Sessions presenting

Track: Efficient Large-Scale AI

Keynote with guests: Toward AI that empowers more people more of the time


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John Sheehan

Technical Fellow, Corporate Vice President Health and Standards, Microsoft Azure

Sessions presenting

Track: Future of the Cloud

Panel discussion: Emerging computing technologies in academia and industry


headshot of Ted Shepherd

Ted Shepherd

Grantham Professor of Climate Science, University of Reading

Sessions presenting

Track: Enabling a Resilient and Sustainable World

Panel discussion and research talk: Computational advances in climate risk assessment


headshot of Ruihua Song

Ruihua Song

Associate Professor, Renmin University of China

Sessions presenting

Track: Amplifying Human Productivity and Creativity

Lightning talks: AI for visual content creation


headshot of Ioan Stefanovici

Ioan Stefanovici

Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research Cambridge

Sessions presenting

Track: Future of the Cloud

Research talk: Storing data for millennia



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Jun Takamatsu

Senior Researcher, Microsoft

Sessions presenting

Track: Amplifying Human Productivity and Creativity

Research talk: Numerical weak AI and symbolic strong AI




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Adam Trischler

Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research Montréal

Sessions presenting

Track: Efficient Large-Scale AI

Keynote with guests: Toward AI that empowers more people more of the time


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Mihaela Vorvoreanu

Director, UX Research and Responsible AI Education, Microsoft, AETHER

Sessions presenting

Track: Building User Trust Through Privacy, Identity, and Responsible AI

Lightning talks: Responsible AI: The challenge of big models


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Xiting Wang

Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia

Sessions presenting

Track: Building User Trust Through Privacy, Identity, and Responsible AI

Lightning talks: Responsible AI: The challenge of big models


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Cameron Webb

Senior Policy Advisor for Equity, White House COVID-19 Response Team

Sessions presenting

Plenary: The future of human health


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Max Welling

Vice President and Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Research AI4Science

Sessions presenting

Plenary: The fifth paradigm of scientific discovery


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Daniel M. Westervelt

Assistant Research Professor, Columbia University

Sessions presenting

Track: Enabling a Resilient and Sustainable World

Panel discussion: Towards climate-smart cities: IoT networks for air pollution sensing


headshot of Andy Wilson

Andy Wilson

Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond

Sessions presenting

Track: Amplifying Human Productivity and Creativity

Panel discussion: Is the future of the metaverse work or play?


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Chenfei Wu

Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia

Sessions presenting

Track: Amplifying Human Productivity and Creativity

Lightning talks: AI for visual content creation


headshot of Fangzhao Wu

Fangzhao Wu

Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia

Sessions presenting

Track: Building User Trust Through Privacy, Identity, and Responsible AI

Lightning talks: Responsible AI: The challenge of big models


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Yingce Xia

Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia

Sessions presenting

Track: Precision Health — From Discovery to Delivery

Lightning talks: AI in life sciences


headshot of Jia Xing

Jia Xing

Associate Professor, Tsinghua University

Sessions presenting

Track: Enabling a Resilient and Sustainable World

Panel discussion and research talk: Computational advances in climate risk assessment


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Kevin Yang

Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research New England

Sessions presenting

Track: Precision Health — From Discovery to Delivery

Lightning talks: AI in life sciences


headshot of Xiaoyuan Yi

Xiaoyuan Yi

Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia

Sessions presenting

Track: Building User Trust Through Privacy, Identity, and Responsible AI

Lightning talks: Responsible AI: The challenge of big models


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Greg Zaverucha

Principal Software Development Engineer, Microsoft

Sessions presenting

Track: Building User Trust Through Privacy, Identity, and Responsible AI

Lightning talks: The identity revolution: Centering trust on people


headshot of Dongmei Zhang

Dongmei Zhang

Distinguished Scientist, Deputy Managing Director, Microsoft Research Asia

Sessions presenting

Plenary: Emerging foundations for planet-scale computing


Haiyan Zhang smiling for the camera

Haiyan Zhang

General Manager, Gaming AI, Microsoft Gaming

Sessions presenting

Track: Amplifying Human Productivity and Creativity

Panel discussion: From AI research to application in AAA-games


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Huishuai Zhang

Senior Researcher, Microsoft

Sessions presenting

Track: Building User Trust Through Privacy, Identity, and Responsible AI

Research talk: Differentially private fine-tuning of large language models


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YY (Yuanyuan) Zhou

Qualcomm Chair Professor, University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

Sessions presenting

Track: Future of the Cloud

Panel discussion: Emerging computing technologies in academia and industry


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Naomi Zimmerman

Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia

Sessions presenting

Track: Enabling a Resilient and Sustainable World

Panel discussion: Towards climate-smart cities: IoT networks for air pollution sensing