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In the news | New benchmarks and models for low-resource languages, medical and brain foundation models, AI in space, and innovation kits
“Cognitive Load Estimation Using Brain Foundation Models and Interpretability for BCIs” paper featured in MSR Research Focus Channel
The paper “Cognitive Load Estimation Using Brain Foundation Models and Interpretability for BCIs”, accepted for publication during ICASSP 2026, with authors Deeksha M Shama, Dimitra Emmanouilidou, Ivan Tashev, is featured in the MSR Research Focus Channel.
In the news | Our Digital Life Episode 7: Audio Signal Processing in the Era of AI
Audio Signal Processing in the Era of AI with Dr. Ivan Tashev
In this episode of the IEEE Signal Processing Society podcast, Felicia Lim, a staff software engineer at Google, where she works on audio signal processing and machine learning, interviews Dr. Ivan Tashev, Partner Software Architect at Microsoft Research (MSR) –…
Research Focus: Week of April 21, 2025
In this issue: our CHI 2025 & ICLR 2025 contributions, plus research on causal reasoning & LLMs; countering LLM jailbreak attacks; and how people use AI vs. AI-alone. Also, SVP of Microsoft Health Jim Weinstein talks rural healthcare innovation.
Research Focus: Week of October 7, 2024
Simplifying secure decision tree training; Improving accuracy of audio content detection; A novel neurosymbolic system for converting text to tables; New video series: AI for Business Transformation; TEE security protections for container workloads.
Research Focus: Week of July 29, 2024
In this issue: Skeleton Posterior-guided OpTimization (SPOT) exhibits potential in various causal discovery tasks; Using visual imagery for an EEG-based brain–computer interface; Developing human-centered AI systems to assist creative professionals.
Awards | ICASSP 2024
Best Paper Award for “Adapting Frechet Audio Distance for Generative Music Evaluation”
Congratulations to our amazing undergraduate -at the time- student Azalea Gui (in: azalea-gui-b17ab4262) for winning the “Best Student Paper Award” at ICASSP’24 along with co-authors Hannes Gamper, Sebastian Braun, Dimitra Emmanouilidou. The research work was done as part of the…
Research Focus: Week of April 1, 2024
In this issue: New research helps COMET embrace African languages; FeatUp improves deep features, a computer vision research cornerstone; LLMs in the Imaginarium: Tool Learning through Simulated Trial and Error; Benchmarking LLMs across languages and more.
What’s Your Story: Ivan Tashev
| Johannes Gehrke and Ivan Tashev
Partner Software Architect Ivan Tashev talks about applying his expertise in audio signal processing to the design and study of audio components for Microsoft products such as Kinect and shares how a focus on what he can control has fueled…
In the news | Microsoft Research Podcast series What’s Your Story: Ivan Tashev
What is your story: Ivan Tashev
In the Microsoft Research Podcast series What’s Your Story, Johannes Gehrke explores the who behind the technical and scientific advancements helping to reshape the world. A systems expert whose 10 years with Microsoft spans research and product, Gehrke talks to members of the…