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 is reinforcing its commitment to advancing AI research and innovation across the Asia-Pacific region with the opening of Microsoft Research Asia – Tokyo. The Tokyo lab will focus on critical areas that reflect Japan's socioeconomic priorities, including embodied AI,…

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.

The Intelligent Multimedia (IM) group aims to build seamless yet efficient multimedia applications and services through breakthroughs in fundamental theory and innovations in algorithm and system technology. We address the problems of intelligent multimedia content sensing, processing, analysis, services, and…

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…