Human language technologies
Researching software and systems that bridge the linguistic divide between people and machines to make communicating with computers as natural as speaking with family and friends.
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Evaluation Validity in Information Retrieval
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Welcome Session – Microsoft Research India Academic Summit 2026
Microsoft Research India Academic Summit 2026Speakers: Venkat Padmanabhan, Srinivasan Iyengar#MSRI #ARS2026
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Plenary Talk 2: Reimagining Education and Skilling for the Age of AI: Challenges & Opportunities
Microsoft Research India Academic Research Summit 2026Speakers: Manohar Swaminathan#MSRI #ARS2026 Manohar Swaminathan argues that AI creates a rare opportunity to rethink education and skilling rather than patch the existing system. The talk connects employability, learner…
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Human-Centered AI: Design, Deployment & Healthcare
Speakers: Manik Gupta, BITS Hyderabad; Anirudha Joshi, IIT Bombay; Aaditeshwar Seth, IIT Delhi; Ashish Makhani, Ashoka University; Mohit Jain, Microsoft; Tavpritesh Sethi, IIIT Delhi #MSRI #ARS2026
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Session on Reasoning
Microsoft Research India Academic Research Summit 2026Speakers: Hongxiang Fan, Imperial College London; Nagarajan Natarajan, Microsoft Research India#MSRI #ARS2026
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Panel: Is Retrieval Relevant in the Age of Reasoning?
Microsoft Research India Academic Research Summit 2026 Speakers: Himanshu Tyagi, IISc Bangalore; Ravishankar Krishnaswamy, Microsoft; Mrinal Kanti Das, IIT Palakkad; Niket Tandon, Microsoft; Srikanta Bedathur, IIT Delhi; Arun Iyer, Microsoft; Somak Aditya, IIT KGP #MSRI…
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Session on Compute & Trust (Security)
Microsoft Research India Academic Research Summit 2026Speakers: Krishna Pillutla, IIT Madras; Danish Pruthi, IIsc Bangalore#MSRI #ARS2026
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Multimodal & Embodied Intelligence (S1), Panel on Multimodal AI: Progress, Pitfalls, Possibilities
Microsoft Research India Academic Research Summit 2026 Multimodal & Embodied Intelligence (Session 1) and Panel discussion on Multimodal AI: Progress, Pitfalls, and Possibilities Session: Multimodal & Embodied Intelligence and Panel discussionSpeakers: Madhava Krishna (IIIT Hyderabad),…
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Multimodal & Embodied Intelligence (S2)
Microsoft Research India Academic Research Summit 2026 Multimodal & Embodied Intelligence (Session 2) Speakers: Rajiv Ratn Shah, IIIT Delhi; Tanuja Ganu, Microsoft; Mercy Ranjit, Microsoft; Vineeth N B, Microsoft; Anand Mishra, IIT Jodhpur; Makarand Tapaswi,…
Microsoft Research Blog
Understanding the brain with AI-driven explanations and experiments
Researchers introduce generative causal testing, which translates black box models into clear hypotheses and verifies them in the scanner, revealing what specific brain regions respond to in language.
