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December 10, 2023 – December 16, 2023

Microsoft at NeurIPS 2023

Central Standard Time (UTC -6)

Location: New Orleans, LA

Microsoft booth schedule

Stop by our booth (#1003) to chat with our experts, see demos of our latest research and find out about career opportunities with Microsoft.

Monday, December 11Session titleSpeakerSession type
09:15 – 09:30AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen AI Applications via Multi-Agent ConversationGagan Bansal, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond
Chi Wang, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond		Demo
09:30 – 10:00Research Opportunities at Microsoft’s Office of Applied ResearchLongqi Yang, E+D Office of Applied ResearchMeet & Greet
11:00 – 12:00AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen AI Applications via Multi-Agent ConversationGagan Bansal, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond
Chi Wang, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond		Demo
12:00 – 13:00Recruitment HourToni Brown-Bell, University Recruiter, GTARecruitment
14:00 – 14:30Book Launch – Deep Learning: Foundations and ConceptsChris Bishop, Director and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Research AI4ScienceTalk
14:30 – 15:00AI4Science Meet and GreetAI4Science TeamMeet & Greet
15:00 – 15:30AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen AI Applications via Multi-Agent ConversationGagan Bansal, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond
Chi Wang, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond		Demo
15:30 – 16:30Research and Engineering Opportunities at MSR IndiaManik Varma, Distinguished Scientist & VP, Microsoft Research IndiaMeet & Greet
Tuesday, December 12Session titleSpeakerSession type
09:00 – 09:30Any-to-Any Generation via Composable DiffusionZiyi Yang, Principal Researcher, Azure AITalk & Demo
09:30 – 10:00Deep Learning Group Meet and Greet
Now Hiring		Lucas Liu, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond
Roland Fernandez, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond
Hao Cheng, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond		Meet & Greet
10:00 – 10:30Mechanistic theory & science of foundation modelsCyril Zhang, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research NYC/NEMeet & Greet
12:00 – 13:00Recruitment HourToni Brown-Bell, University Recruiter, GTA
Longqi Yang, Principal Applied Research Manager, Office of Applied Research
Jian Jiao, Principal Software Engineer Manager, Bing		Recruitment
13:30 – 14:00MatterGen: a generative model for inorganic materials designTian Xie, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research AI4Science
Ryota Tomioka, Researcher Manager, Microsoft Research AI4Science
Robert Pinsler, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research AI4Science		Talk
14:00 – 14:30Book Launch – Deep Learning: Foundations and ConceptsChris Bishop, Director and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Research AI4ScienceTalk
14:30 – 15:00AI4Science Meet and GreetAI4Science TeamMeet & Greet
15:15 – 16:15Research and Engineering Opportunities at MSR IndiaManik Varma, Distinguished Scientist & VP, Microsoft Research IndiaMeet & Greet
16:15 – 16:45Timewarp: Transferable Acceleration of Molecular Dynamics by Learning Time-Coarsened DynamicsAndrew Foong, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research AI4ScienceTalk
Wednesday, December 13Session titleSpeakerSession type
09:15 – 10:00VeLLM: Building population scale copilotsAkshay Nambi, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research IndiaDemo
09:15 – 10:00pywhy-llm: Advancing causality with LLMsAmit Sharma, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research IndiaDemo
10:30 – 11:00Health Futures Meet & GreetAlex Lu, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Health FuturesMeet & Greet
11:00 -12:00Recruitment HourToni Brown-Bell, University Recruiter, GTA
Wenhao Lu, Principal Applied Scientist, Bing		Recruitment
12:00 – 12:30Meet & Greet – Resource Efficient Finetuning and EvaluationWeiwei Yang, Director, Microsoft Research RedmondMeet & Greet
12:30 – 13:00Meet & Greet – ML, Data Science Kate Lytvynets, Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft Research RedmondMeet & Greet
13:00 – 13:30Community Centered Innovation – Regenerative, Environmental and Social Justice perspectivePeeyush Kumar, Senior Researcher, Microsoft RedmondTalk
13:30 – 14:00HuggingGPT: Solving AI Tasks with ChatGPT and Its Friend in Hugging FaceKaitao Song, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research AsiaTalk
14:00 – 14:30MSRA Shanghai Meet & GreetMSRA ShanghaiMeet & Greet
14:30 – 15:00AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen AI Applications via Multi-Agent ConversationGagan Bansal, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research RedmondDemo
15:15 – 16:15Research and Engineering Opportunities at MSR IndiaManik Varma, Distinguished Scientist & VP, Microsoft Research IndiaMeet & Greet
16:30 – 17:15Causality and LLMsRobert Ness, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research RedmondTalk
16:30 – 17:15FABind: Fast and Accurate Protein-Ligand BindingTao Qin, Senior Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research AI4ScienceTalk & Demo
Thursday, December 14Session titleSpeaker(s)Session type
09:15 – 10:00Postdoc Q&AKonstantin Klemmer, Pos Doc Researcher, Microsoft Research New England
Toni Brown-Bell, University Recruiter, GTA		Postdoc Q&A
10:00 – 10:30Open opportunities in learning to make decisionsDylan Foster, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research NYC/NE
John Langford, Partner Research Manager, Microsoft Research NYC/NE
Cyril Zhang, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research NYC/NE		Meet & Greet
10:30 – 11:00Bridging Discrete and Backpropagation: Straight-Through and BeyondLucas Liu, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research RedmondTalk
11:00 – 11:30Survival Instinct in Offline Reinforcement LearningChing-An Cheng, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research RedmondTalk
11:30 – 12:30Research and Engineering Opportunities at MSR IndiaManik Varma, Distinguished Scientist & VP, Microsoft Research IndiaMeet & Greet
12:30 – 13:00Analog Optical Compute for Machine Learning and OptimizationJannes Gladrow, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research CambridgeTalk
13:00 – 14:00Recruitment HourToni Brown-Bell, University Recruiter, GTARecruitment