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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

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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…

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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…

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Full Stack Greenfield Projects : Are they still relevant?

June 25, 2026 | Bharat Goenka, Ashish Panwar, Siddarth Asokan

Speakers: Bharat Goenka Host: Ashish Panwar, Siddarth Asokan #MSRI #LabSabha We may be the last of the few product companies on this planet which continue to do this – and are in the middle of…

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Language & Voice AI for Africa: From Data to Deployment and Impact

May 7, 2026 | Vukosi Marivate, Tavonga Siyavora, Tobi Olatunji, Kiplangat Korir, John Quinn, Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, George Musumba, Joyce Nabende-Nakatumba, Mercy Muchai, Yann Le Beux

This seminar explores how language and voice AI systems can be built and scaled for African contexts—from community-driven data collection and multilingual foundation models to robust deployment and real-world applications across sectors such as agriculture,…

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Mixed Computational Experimental Screening for Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Battery Negolytes

Ernesto Martinez-Baez, Veronica Del Angel Hernandez, Rhys Olsen, Syed Mohammed Ali Hussaini, Rafiq A. Taj, Cameron Gruich, Bin Yun, Max Gavagan, Adam Foster, Jon Horner, Kathryn Oseen-Senda, Karin Strauss, Bryan R. Goldsmith, David G. Kwabi, Bichlien Nguyen, Jake Smith

chemrxiv | May 2026

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Beyond Swahili: Designing Inclusive AI for Bantu Languages

March 2, 2026 | Alfred Malengo Kondoro

Swahili has become one of the most consistently represented African languages in modern AI benchmarks, spanning machine translation, language modeling, and multilingual evaluation suites, far exceeding the coverage of any other Bantu language. This prominence…

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Mirror in the Sky: Democratizing Continent-Scale IoT Connectivity via Amateur Satellites

Jacqueline M. Schellberg, S. Jog, Vaishnavi Ranganathan, Krishna Chintalapudi, B. Priyantha, Bhuvana Krishnaswamy

Proceedings of the 27th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications | February 2026

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SatExt: Generative AI framework for Spatio-Spectral Satellite Unification and Beyond

Nazish Naeem, Peder Olsen, Vaishnavi Ranganathan

Proceedings of the 27th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications | February 2026

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Microsoft Research India 2025 Highlights

January 19, 2026

Here are some highlights of the research and impact at Microsoft Research India in 2025, along with some glimpses of the lab milieu.

Microsoft Research India 2025 Key Highlights

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