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Microsoft Research Podcast

Microsoft Research Podcast

Researchers across the Microsoft research community

An ongoing series of conversations bringing you right up to the cutting edge of Microsoft Research.
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Top 10 Microsoft Research Podcast Episodes

Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Microsoft Research Podcast episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Microsoft Research Podcast for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Microsoft Research Podcast episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Microsoft Research Podcast - What’s Your Story: Ranveer Chandra

What’s Your Story: Ranveer Chandra

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10/19/23 • 32 min

In this new Microsoft Research Podcast series What’s Your Story, Lab Director Johannes Gehrke explores the who behind the technical and scientific advancements helping to reshape the world. He talks to members of the research community at Microsoft about what motivates their work and how they got where they are today.

Ranveer Chandra is Managing Director of Research for Industry and CTO of Agri-Food. He is also Head of Networking Research at Microsoft Research Redmond. His work in systems and networking is helping to bring more internet connectivity to more people and is yielding tools designed to help farmers increase food production more affordably and sustainably. In this episode, he shares what it was like growing up in Jamshedpur, India; why he focuses his efforts in the areas he does; and where the joy in his work comes from.

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Microsoft Research Podcast - Abstracts: November 14, 2024

Abstracts: November 14, 2024

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11/14/24 • 13 min

The efficient simulation of molecules has the potential to change how the world understands biological systems and designs new drugs and biomaterials. Tong Wang discusses AI2BMD, an AI-based system designed to simulate large biomolecules with speed and accuracy.

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Microsoft Research Podcast - What’s Your Story: Desney Tan

What’s Your Story: Desney Tan

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11/16/23 • 23 min

In this new Microsoft Research Podcast series What’s Your Story, Johannes Gehrke explores the who behind the technical and scientific advancements helping to reshape the world. A systems expert whose 10 years with Microsoft spans research and product, Gehrke talks to members of the company’s research community about what motivates their work and how they got where they are today.

Across his time at Microsoft, Desney Tan, Managing Director of Microsoft Research Redmond, has had the experience of shepherding research ideas into products multiple times, and much like the trajectory of research, his life journey has been far from linear. In this episode, Tan shares how he moved to the United States from Singapore as a teenager, how his self-described “brashness” as a Microsoft intern helped shift the course of his career, and how human impact has been a guiding force in his work.

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Microsoft Research Podcast - Abstracts: NeurIPS 2024 with Dylan Foster
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12/06/24 • 10 min

Can existing algorithms designed for simple reinforcement learning problems be used to solve more complex RL problems? Researcher Dylan Foster discusses the modular approach he and his coauthors explored in their 2024 NeurIPS paper on RL under latent dynamics.

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Microsoft Research Podcast - Abstracts: November 20, 2023

Abstracts: November 20, 2023

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11/20/23 • 14 min

Members of the research community at Microsoft work continuously to advance their respective fields. Abstracts brings its audience to the cutting edge with them through short, compelling conversations about new and noteworthy achievements.

In this episode, Shrey Jain, a Technical Project Manager at Microsoft Research, and Dr. Zoë Hitzig, a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, discuss their work on contextual confidence, which presents a framework to understand and more meaningfully address the increasingly sophisticated challenges generative AI poses to communication.

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Microsoft Research Podcast - Ideas: Solving network management puzzles with Behnaz Arzani
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06/13/24 • 43 min

Behnaz Arzani loves hard problems and the freedom to explore. That makes research a great fit! She discusses her work in network management, including the potential role of LLMs in the field; the challenges that excite her; and how storytelling changed her life.

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Microsoft Research Podcast - Abstracts: NeurIPS 2024 with Jindong Wang and Steven Euijong Whang
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12/13/24 • 11 min

Researcher Jindong Wang and Associate Professor Steven Euijong Whang explore the NeurIPS 2024 work ERBench. ERBench leverages relational databases to create LLM benchmarks that can verify model rationale via keywords in addition to checking answer correctness.

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Microsoft Research Podcast - Abstracts: October 9, 2023

Abstracts: October 9, 2023

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10/09/23 • 13 min

Members of the research community at Microsoft work continuously to advance their respective fields. Abstracts brings its audience to the cutting edge with them through short, compelling conversations about new and noteworthy achievements.

In this episode, Dr. Sheng Zhang, a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, joins host Dr. Gretchen Huizinga to discuss “UniversalNER: Targeted Distillation from Large Language Models for Open Named Entity Recognition.” In this paper, Zhang and his coauthors present mission-focused instruction tuning, a method for distilling large language models into smaller, more efficient ones for a broad application class. Their UniversalNER models achieved state-of-the-art performance in named entity recognition, an important natural language processing (NLP) task. Model distillation has the potential to make NLP and other capabilities more accessible, particularly in specialized domains such as biomedicine, which could benefit from more resource-efficient and transparent options.

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Microsoft Research Podcast - Collaborators: Project InnerEye with Javier Alvarez and Raj Jena
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08/17/23 • 39 min

Transforming research ideas into meaningful impact is no small feat. It often requires the knowledge and experience of individuals from across disciplines and institutions. Collaborators, a new Microsoft Research Podcast series, explores the relationships—both expected and unexpected—behind the projects, products, and services being pursued and delivered by researchers at Microsoft and the diverse range of people they’re teaming up with.

In this episode, Dr. Gretchen Huizinga talks with Microsoft Health Futures Senior Director Javier Alvarez and Dr. Raj Jena, a radiation oncologist at Addenbrooke’s hospital, part of Cambridge University Hospitals in the United Kingdom, about Project InnerEye, a Microsoft Research effort that applies machine learning to medical image analysis. The pair shares how a 10-plus-year collaborative journey—and a combination of research and good software engineering—has resulted in the hospital’s creation of an AI system that is helping to decrease the time cancer patients have to wait to begin treatment. Alvarez and Jena chart the path of their collaboration in AI-assisted medical imaging, from Microsoft Research’s initiation of Project InnerEye and its decision to make the resulting research tools available in open source to Addenbrooke’s subsequent testing and validation of these tools to meet the regulatory requirements for use in a clinical setting. They also discuss supporting clinician productivity—and ultimately patient outcomes—and the important role patients play in incorporating AI into healthcare.

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Microsoft Research Podcast - AI Frontiers: Measuring and mitigating harms with Hanna Wallach
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09/28/23 • 41 min

Powerful large-scale AI models like GPT-4 are showing dramatic improvements in reasoning, problem-solving, and language capabilities. This marks a phase change for artificial intelligence—and a signal of accelerating progress to come.

In this Microsoft Research Podcast series, AI scientist and engineer Ashley Llorens hosts conversations with his collaborators and colleagues about what these models—and the models that will come next—mean for our approach to creating, understanding, and deploying AI, its applications in areas such as healthcare and education, and its potential to benefit humanity.

This episode features Partner Research Manager Hanna Wallach, whose research into fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in AI and machine learning has helped inform the use of AI in Microsoft products and services for years. Wallach describes how she and a team of applied scientists expanded their tools for measuring fairness-related harms in AI systems to address harmful content more broadly during their involvement in the deployment of Bing Chat; her interest in filtering, a technique for mitigating harms that she describes as widely used but not often talked about; and the cross-company collaboration that brings policy, engineering, and research together to evolve and execute the Microsoft approach to developing and deploying AI responsibly.

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Microsoft AI: Responsible AI Principles and Approach

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FAQ

How many episodes does Microsoft Research Podcast have?

Microsoft Research Podcast currently has 212 episodes available.

What topics does Microsoft Research Podcast cover?

The podcast is about Podcasts and Technology.

What is the most popular episode on Microsoft Research Podcast?

The episode title 'What’s Your Story: Ranveer Chandra' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Microsoft Research Podcast?

The average episode length on Microsoft Research Podcast is 32 minutes.

How often are episodes of Microsoft Research Podcast released?

Episodes of Microsoft Research Podcast are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of Microsoft Research Podcast?

The first episode of Microsoft Research Podcast was released on Nov 27, 2017.

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