Plenary Talk 1: Navigating the AI Horizon: Promises, Perils, and the Power of Collaboration
- Ece Kamar, Microsoft; Srinivasan Iyengar, Microsoft
- MSR India Academic Research Summit 2026
Microsoft Research India Academic Research Summit 2026
Speakers: Ece Kamar
#msri #ARS2026
Ece Kamar frames the current AI moment through the rise of AI agents, balancing transformative potential with real risks. The talk argues that durable impact will require collaboration across academia, industry, and disciplines, along with advances across the broader computing and human-centered stack.
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Ece Kamar
CVP and Lab Director of AI Frontiers
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Srinivasan Iyengar
Senior Program Manager
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Series: Microsoft Research India Academic Research Summit 2026
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Multimodal & Embodied Intelligence (S2)
- Rajiv Ratn Shah,
- Tanuja Ganu,
- Mercy Ranjit
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Session: Compute & Trust (Systems)
- Ashish Panwar,
- Aditya Desai,
- Abhilash Jindal
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Multimodal & Embodied Intelligence (S1), Panel on Multimodal AI: Progress, Pitfalls, Possibilities
- Madhava Krishna,
- Sriram Ganapathy,
- Somak Aditya
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Session on Compute & Trust (Security)
- Krishna Pillutla,
- Danish Pruthi
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Panel: Is Retrieval Relevant in the Age of Reasoning?
- Himanshu Tyagi,
- Ravishankar Krishnaswamy,
- Mrinal Kanti Das
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Session on Reasoning
- Hongxiang Fan,
- Nagarajan Natarajan
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Human-Centered AI: Design, Deployment & Healthcare
- Manik Gupta,
- Anirudha Joshi,
- Aaditeshwar Seth
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Session on Retrieval
- Lokesh Nagalapatti,
- Soumen Chakrabarti
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Session on Inclusive AI: Data, Models, Evaluation
- Niloy Ganguly,
- Danish Pruthi,
- Sunayana Sitaram
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