The goal of research on Microsoft Research Asia – Shanghai (MSRA Shanghai) is to design advanced algorithms and systems to help solve cutting-edge challenges closely related to our life. The research in this area cares about the accessing of ubiquitous…

Launched in July 2025, Microsoft Research Asia – Singapore is Microsoft’s first research lab in Southeast Asia, established to advance fundamental and applied AI research, co-develop transformative AI solutions for key industries, and cultivate the next generation of AI talent…

Microsoft Research Asia – Tokyo brings together Microsoft Research’s global research capabilities with Japan’s deep expertise in advanced engineering, robotics, manufacturing, and the design of reliable systems for the real world.  Established in 2024 as Microsoft Research’s first lab in…

Microsoft Research Asia's Hub in Vancouver, BC Microsoft Research Asia – Vancouver lab, located in Vancouver, BC, Canada, is an expansion of Microsoft Research Asia into the Asia-Pacific region. Our mission is to bridge the gap between general artificial intelligence and…

Advancing human-Al co-creation through interactive intelligence. Interactive Intelligence (I.I. Group) is a research engineering team dedicated to advancing human–AI co-creation through interactive intelligence. We investigate how humans and intelligent systems can think, explore, and create together through interaction. Rather than…

The General Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Group is focusing on research of Large Foundation Models and General AI, Natural Language Processing, Speech Processing, and Multimodal AI.

Our current research focus is on deep/reinforcement learning, distributed machine learning, and graph learning. Other research projects from our group include learning to rank, computational advertising, and cloud pricing.

Online collaboration with real-time communication is becoming increasingly more important. Multimedia Computing and AI technologies are the two pillars of the strategy to achieve ultimate user experiences in a real-time online collaboration. In media computing group, we have been investing…

Built on Microsoft Research Asia’s more than two-decade advanced research and technology transfer foundation, Industry Innovation Center is staffed with a group of world-class researchers and applied scientists, with the mission to tackle real-world hard problems and demonstrate our thought…