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Welcome Session – Microsoft Research India Academic Summit 2026

June 26, 2026 | Venkat Padmanabhan, Srinivasan Iyengar

Microsoft Research India Academic Summit 2026Speakers: Venkat Padmanabhan, Srinivasan Iyengar#MSRI #ARS2026

graphical user interface, text, application

11:31

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Plenary Talk 1: Navigating the AI Horizon: Promises, Perils, and the Power of Collaboration

June 26, 2026 | Ece Kamar, Srinivasan Iyengar

Microsoft Research India Academic Research Summit 2026Speakers: 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…

55:58

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Plenary Talk 2: Reimagining Education and Skilling for the Age of AI: Challenges & Opportunities

June 26, 2026 | Manohar Swaminathan

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…

01:00:45

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Plenary Talk 4: Aging Brain Research: Challenges and Opportunities

June 26, 2026 | KVS Hari, Srinivasan Iyengar

Microsoft Research India Academic Research Summit 2026Speakers: Prof. KVS Hari#MSRI #ARS2026 KVS Hari discusses the biology of aging and its implications for brain research. The talk connects cellular aging, senescence, and molecular markers to the…

55:22

Publication

How Copilot Changed the Pace of Work in Word — And How We Measured It

Gaurav Verma, Siddharth Suri, Scott Counts

MSR-TR-2026-24 | June 2026

Published by Microsoft

Career Opportunity

Senior Data Scientist – LLM Evaluation

Posted: June 23, 2026

Location: Boulder, Colorado, US; Mountain View, CA, US; New York, NY, US; Redmond, WA, US

Research Area(s): Artificial intelligence, Data platforms and analytics, Human language technologies, Social sciences

As a Senior Data Scientist for LLM Evaluation, you will develop and implement cutting-edge methodologies to help us evaluate how well Copilot performs in real-world usage scenarios. Users turn to Copilot for all types of…

Publication

Can Social Networks Substitute for Reputation Systems? Evidence from a Large Scale Field Experiment

David Holtz, Alex Dow, Sinan Aral

AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media | May 2026

Project

Project Volano

Enabling everyone to shape AI Project Volano is carrying out cross-disciplinary research to understand how we can value and utilize community perspectives throughout the whole of the AI pipeline. Our first use case is to…

Publication

What if AI systems weren’t chatbots?

Sourojit Ghosh, Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Sanjana Gautam, Avijit Ghosh

FAccT ’26 | May 2026

Event

Global AI Value Challenge

May 6, 2026 – August 31, 2026 | Global online

AI systems are increasingly used in science, technology, and everyday decision-making. But a harder problem is often overlooked: when an honesty conflicts with kindness, how should an AI system respond? In situations with limited or…