Welcome Session – Microsoft Research India Academic Summit 2026
Microsoft Research India Academic Summit 2026Speakers: Venkat Padmanabhan, Srinivasan Iyengar#MSRI #ARS2026
Plenary Talk 4: Aging Brain Research: Challenges and Opportunities
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…
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.
Talos: Scaling rare disease diagnosis with automated, iterative genomic reanalysis
Talos was built to help resolve a major bottleneck in genomic medicine: human review time. The open-source system recovered 90% of in-scope diagnoses while surfacing just 1.3 candidate variants per patient for expert review.
SmartKC: A Smartphone-based Corneal Topographer
We propose SmartKC, a low-cost, smartphone-based keratoconus diagnosis system comprising of a 3D-printed placido’s disc attachment, an LED light strip, and an intelligent smartphone app to capture the reflection of the placido rings on the…
BYOeB: Build Your Own expert Bot
BYOeB (Build Your Own Expert Bot) is a platform designed to build expert-in-the-loop WhatsApp-based chatbots. It enables developers to build chatbots that leverages human expertise to verify and edit responses. It is particularly valuable in…