Microsoft Research Lab - India - Microsoft Research

In keeping with the global mission of Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research India is engaged in cutting-edge basic and applied research in multiple fields in computing, information technology, and related areas. Microsoft Research India also collaborates with a wide range of scientific and academic institutions to advance the state of the art in computing research in India. Microsoft Research India also collaborates extensively with the international scientific community and other Microsoft research labs to help push forward the boundaries of research. One of our flagship projects is the Massively Empowered Classroom.

India has a population of more than a billion people, more than 20 officially recognized languages, and innumerable dialects and startlingly different terrains and cultures. While 60% of the population derives its income from agriculture and related activities, India also has one of the world’s fastest growing and most dynamic IT industries. This wide, and sometimes stark, diversity makes it an ideal environment for research in a number of areas.

Learning Sparsely Used Overcomplete Dictionaries via Alternating Minimization

Alekh Agarwal, Animashree Anandkumar, Prateek Jain, Praneeth Netrapalli, in SIAM Journal of Optimization, September 11, 2016, View abstract

A Clustering Approach to Learn Sparsely-Used Overcomplete Dictionaries

Alekh Agarwal, Animashree Anandkumar, Praneeth Netrapalli, in IEEE Transcations on Information Theory, September 11, 2016, View abstract

Inferring Annotations For Device Drivers From Verification Histories

Zvonimir Pavlinovic, Akash Lal, Rahul Sharma, in Automated Software Engineering (ASE), ACM, September 2, 2016, View abstract

Structured Sparse Regression via Greedy Hard-thresholding

Prateek Jain, Nikhil Rao, Inderjit S. Dhillon, December 5, 2016, View abstract

Syntactic Complexity of Web Search Queries through the Lenses of Language Models, Networks and Users

Rishiraj Saha Roy, Smith Agarwal, Niloy Ganguly, Monojit Choudhury, September 1, 2016, View abstract

Regret Bounds for Non-decomposable Metrics with Missing Labels

Nagarajan Natarajan, Prateek Jain, in To appear in NIPS, December 5, 2016, View abstract

Experiments with Cross-lingual Systems for Synthesis of Code-Mixed Text

Sunayana Sitaram, Sai Krishna Rallabandi, Shruti Rijhwani, Alan W Black, Speech Synthesis Workshop 9, September 15, 2016, View abstract

Nearly-optimal Robust Matrix Completion

Yeshwanth Cherapanamjeri, Kartik Gupta, Prateek Jain, July 14, 2016, View abstract

IQ-Hopping: Distributed Oblivious Channel Selection for Wireless Networks

Apurv Bhartia, Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Krishna Kant Chintalapudi, Lili Qiu, Bozidar Radunovic, Ramachandran Ramjee, Krishna Chintalapudi, ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, July 1, 2016, View abstract

Block-wise Non-Malleable Codes

Nishanth Chandran, Vipul Goyal, Pratyay Mukherjee, Omkant Pandey, Jalaj Upadhyay, in ICALP 2016, June 30, 2016, View abstract

Streaming PCA: Matching Matrix Bernstein and Near-Optimal Finite Sample Guarantees for Oja’s Algorithm

Prateek Jain, Chi Jin, Sham Kakade, Praneeth Netrapalli, Aaron Sidford, in Proceedings of The 29th Conference on Learning Theory (COLT), June 25, 2016, View abstract

Efficient and Consistent Robust Time Series Analysis

Kush Bhatia, Prateek Jain, Purushottam Kar, Kamalaurben Parameswaran, June 21, 2016, View abstract

Diverse Yet Efficient Retrieval using Hash Functions

Vidyadhar Rao, Prateek Jain, C V Jawahar, in Proceedings of ACM International Conference in Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), June 6, 2016, View abstract

The Increasing Sophistication of Mobile Media Sharing in Lower-Middle-Class Bangalore

Jacki O'Neill, Kentaro Toyama, Jay Chen, Berthel Tate, Aysha Siddique, ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, June 3, 2016, View abstract

ICT-Enabled Grievance Redressal in Central India: A Comparative Analysis

Meghana Marathe, Jacki O'Neill, Paromita Pain, Bill Thies, ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, June 3, 2016, View abstract

A Design and Verification Methodology for Secure Isolated Regions

Sanjit Seshia, Akash Lal, Rohit Sinha, Sriram Rajamani, Manuel Costa, Kapil Vaswani, in Programming Languages Design and Implementation (PLDI), ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, June 1, 2016, View abstract

Tensor vs Matrix Methods: Robust Tensor Decomposition under Block Sparse Perturbations

Anima Anandkumar, Prateek Jain, Yang Shi, U N Niranjan, in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), May 10, 2016, View abstract

Peer-to-peer in the workplace: A view from the road

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Nicola J. Bidwell, Himanshu Zade, Srihari H. Muralidhar, Anupama Dhareshwar, Baneen Karachiwala, Tandong Neba Cedrick, Jacki O'Neill, ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, May 7, 2016, View abstract

Information Flows in Encrypted Databases

Kapil Vaswani, Ravi Ramamurthy, Ramarathnam Venkatesan, https://arxiv.org/, May 1, 2016, View abstract

Functions of Code-Switching in Tweets: An Annotation Scheme and Some Initial Experiments

Kalika Bali, Monojit Choudhury, Rafiya Begum, Koustav Rudra, Niloy Ganguly, LREC, May 1, 2016, View abstract

Inferring Annotations For Device Drivers From Verification Histories

Zvonimir Pavlinovic, Akash Lal, Rahul Sharma, Microsoft Research, April 1, 2016, View abstract

Reducing Depth in Constrained PRFs: From Bit-Fixing to NC

Nishanth Chandran, Srinivasan Raghuraman, Dhinakaran Vinayagamurthy, in Public Key Cryptography (PKC) 2016, Springer, March 6, 2016, View abstract

Does the Sharing Economy do any Good?

Tawanna R. Dillahunt, Loren Terveen, Airi Lampinen, Cory Kendrick, Jacki O'Neill, ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, March 2, 2016, View abstract

Improving Document Ranking for Long Queries with Nested Query Segmentation

Rishiraj Saha Roy, Anusha Suresh, Niloy Ganguly, Monojit Choudhury, ECIR, March 1, 2016, View abstract

Uncovering Bugs in Distributed Storage Systems during Testing (not in Production!)

Pantazis Deligiannis, Matt McCutchen, Paul Thomson, Shuo Chen, Alastair F. Donaldson, John Erickson, Cheng Huang, Akash Lal, Rashmi Mudduluru, Shaz Qadeer, Wolfram Schulte, in 14th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), February 1, 2016, View abstract

A Statistical Approach To Material Classification Using Image Patch Exemplars

Manik Varma, Andrew Zisserman, in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, January 23, 2016, View abstract

A Critique of FCC’S TV White Space Regulations

Ramachandran Ramjee, Sumit Roy, Krishna Chintalapudi, in GetMobile, ACM, January 15, 2016, View abstract

Turking In A Global Labour Market

David Martin, Jacki O'Neill, Neha Gupta, Benjamin V. Hanrahan, in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Springer, January 13, 2016, View abstract

Information-theoretic Local Non-malleable Codes and their Applications

Bhavana Kanukurthi, Srinivasan Raghuraman, in Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC) 2016-A, Springer, January 1, 2016, View abstract

POS Tagging of Hindi-English Code Mixed Text from Social Media: Some Machine Learning Experiments

Royal Sequiera, Monojit Choudhury, Kalika Bali, in ICON 2015, NLPAI, December 1, 2015, View abstract

Improving Document Ranking for Long Queries with Nested Query Segmentation

Rishiraj Saha Roy, Anusha Suresh, Niloy Ganguly, Monojit Choudhury, Deepak Shankar, Tanwita Nimiar, Microsoft Research, December 31, 2015, View abstract

Alternating Minimization for Regression Problems with Vector-valued Outputs

Prateek Jain, Ambuj Tewari, in Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference on Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), December 10, 2015, View abstract

Predtron: A Family of Online Algorithms for General Prediction Problems

Prateek Jain, Nagarajan Natarajan, Ambuj Tewari, in Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference on Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), December 10, 2015, View abstract

Sparse Local Embeddings for Extreme Multi-label Classification

Kush Bhatia, Himanshu Jain, Purushottam Kar, Manik Varma, Prateek Jain, in Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference on Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), December 10, 2015, View abstract

Robust Regression via Hard Thresholding

Kush Bhatia, Prateek Jain, Purushottam Kar, in Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference on Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), December 10, 2015, View abstract

DiversiFi: Robust Multi-Link Interactive Streaming

Rajat Kateja, Nimantha Baranasuriya, Vishnu Navda, Venkat Padmanabhan, in CoNEXT 2015, ACM CoNext 2015, December 1, 2015, View abstract

QProbe: Locating the Bottleneck in Cellular Communication

Nimantha Baranasuriya, Vishnu Navda, Seth Gilbert, Venkat Padmanabhan, in CoNEXT 2015, ACM CoNext 2015 (best short paper award), December 1, 2015, View abstract

A Provably Correct Sampler for Probabilistic Programs

Chung-Kil Hur, Aditya Nori, Sriram Rajamani, , in Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS), Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, December 1, 2015, View abstract

Strength in Numbers: Robust Tamper Detection in Crowd Computations

Bimal Viswanath, Muhammad Ahmad Bashir, Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Simon Bouget, Saikat Guha, Krishna Gummadi, Aniket Kate, Alan Mislove, in Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN), November 1, 2015, View abstract

Efficient Matrix Sensing Using Rank-1 Gaussian Measurements

Kai Zhong, Prateek Jain, Inderjit S. Dhillon, in Proceedings of 26th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT), October 14, 2015, View abstract

Moat: Verifying Confidentiality of Enclave Programs

Rohit Sinha, Sriram Rajamani, Sanjit A. Seshia, Kapil Vaswani, in The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, October 1, 2015, View abstract

Social media platforms for low-income blind people in India

Edward Cutrell, Nicola Dell, Richard Anderson, Ed Cutrell, ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, October 1, 2015, View abstract

Empirical Analysis of Search Advertising Strategies

Bhanu Vattikonda, Vacha Dave, Saikat Guha, Alex C. Scoeren, in Proceedings of the 2015 Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), October 1, 2015, View abstract

Insider: Towards Breaking Down Mobile App Silos

Vageesh Chandramouli, Abhijnan Chakraborty, Vishnu Navda, Saikat Guha, Venkat Padmanabhan, Ramachandran Ramjee, , , in TRIOS Workshop held in conjunction with the SIGOPS SOSP 2015, September 15, 2015, View abstract

The Whodunit Challenge: Mobilizing the Crowd in India

, Rajan Vaish, Edward Cutrell, William Thies, Bill Thies, Ed Cutrell, Springer, September 1, 2015, View abstract

Volt: A Lazy Grounding Framework for Solving Very Large MaxSAT Instances

Ravi Mangal, Xin Zhang, Mayur Naik, Aditya Nori, in SAT '15: International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing, Springer, September 1, 2015, View abstract

Deterring cheating in online environments

Henry Corrigan-Gibbs, Nakull Gupta, Curtis Northcutt, Ed Cutrell, Bill Thies, in ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. (TOCHI), ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, September 1, 2015, View abstract

Secure Computation Interfaces

Manuel Costa, Sriram Rajamani, Mark Russinovich, Kapil Vaswani, Orion Hodson, Marcus Peinado, Microsoft Research, August 31, 2015, View abstract

A User-Guided Approach to Program Analysis

Ravi Mangal, Xin Zhang, Mayur Naik, Aditya Nori, in Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) - ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper, ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, August 1, 2015, View abstract

Learning Refinement Types

He Zhu, Aditya Nori, Suresh Jagannathan, in International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP), ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, August 1, 2015, View abstract

Interpreting Advertiser Intent in Sponsored Search

Bhanu Vattikonda, Santhosh Kodipaka, Hongyan Zhou, Vacha Dave, Saikat Guha, Alex C. Scoeren, in Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), August 1, 2015, View abstract

Surrogate Functions for Maximizing Precision at the Top

, Prateek Jain, in Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Journal of Machine Learning Research, July 1, 2015, View abstract

Optimizing Non-decomposable Performance Measures: A Tale of Two Classes

, Prateek Jain, in Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Journal of Machine Learning Research, July 1, 2015, View abstract

Angelic Verification: Precise Verification Modulo Unknowns

, Shuvendu Lahiri, Akash Lal, Yi Li, in Computer Aided Verification (CAV), Springer, July 1, 2015, View abstract

Fast Exact Matrix Completion with Finite Samples

Prateek Jain, Praneeth Netrapalli, in Proceedings of The 28th Conference on Learning Theory (COLT), June 24, 2015, View abstract

DAG Inlining: A Decision Procedure for Reachability-Modulo-Theories in Hierarchical Programs

Akash Lal, Shaz Qadeer, in Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), ACM, June 1, 2015, View abstract

Asynchronous Programming, Analysis and Testing with State Machines

Akash Lal, Pantazis Deligiannis, Alastair Donaldson, Paul Thomson, Jeroen Ketema, in Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), ACM, June 1, 2015, View abstract

Efficient Synthesis of Probabilistic Programs

Aditya Nori, Sherjil Ozair, Sriram Rajamani, Deepak Vijaykeerthy, , in Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, June 1, 2015, View abstract

Composing Concurrency Control

Ofri Ziv, Alex Aiken, Guy Golan-Gueta, G. Ramalingam, Mooly Sagiv, G. Ramalingam, in Programming Language Design and Implementation, PLDI 2015, June 1, 2015, View abstract

Revisiting CGNet Swara and its Impact in Rural India

Meghana Marathe, Jacki O'Neill, Paromita Pain, Bill Thies, ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, May 15, 2015, View abstract

Broom: Sweeping out Garbage Collection From Big Data Systems

Ionel Gog, Jana Giceva, Malte Schwarzkopf, Kapil Vaswani, Dimitrios Vytiniotis, G. Ramalingam, Manuel Costa, Derek Murray, Steven Hand, Michael Isard, in Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS), USENIX – Advanced Computing Systems Association, May 1, 2015, View abstract

Sangeet Swara: A Community-Moderated Voice Forum in Rural India

Edward Cutrell, Gaetano Borriello, William Thies, Bill Thies, Ed Cutrell, ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, May 1, 2015, View abstract

User Interface Design for Low-Literate and Novice Users: Past, Present and Future

Indrani Medhi Thies, in Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction, Now Publishers Inc., April 1, 2015, View abstract

Iterative Cycle Detection via Delaying Explorers

Ankush Desai, Shaz Qadeer, Sriram Rajamani, Sanjit Seshia, , March 25, 2015, View abstract

Multi-k-ic depth three circuit lower bound

Neeraj Kayal, Chandan Saha, in Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS), LIPICS, March 1, 2015, View abstract

Blended Learning in Indian Colleges with Massively Empowered Classroom

Ed Cutrell, Jacki O'Neill, Srinath Bala, B. Nitish, Andrew Cross, , Viraj Kumar, Bill Thies, ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, March 1, 2015, View abstract

Increasing the reach of snowball sampling: The impact of fixed versus lottery incentives

Aditya Vashistha, Ed Cutrell, Bill Thies, , ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, March 1, 2015, View abstract

SMACK+Corral: A Modular Verifier (Competition Contribution)

Competition Contribution, Arvind Haran, Montgomery Carter, Michael Emmi, Akash Lal, Shaz Qadeer, Zvonimir Rakamaric, in Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS), Springer, March 1, 2015, View abstract

KrishiPustak: A Social Networking System for Low- Literate Farmers

Indrani Medhi Thies, Pedro Ferreira, Nakull Gupta, Jacki O'Neill, Ed Cutrell, , ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, March 1, 2015, View abstract

KrishiPustak: A Social Networking System for Low- Literate Farmers (Best paper honorable mention)

Indrani Medhi Thies, Pedro Ferreira, Nakull Gupta, Jacki O'Neill, Ed Cutrell, ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, March 1, 2015, View abstract

Automatic scalable atomicity via semantic locking

Guy Golan-Gueta, G. Ramalingam, Mooly Sagiv, Eran Yahav, G. Ramalingam, in ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, PPoPP 2015, February 1, 2015, View abstract

Tighter Low-rank Approximation via Sampling the Leveraged Element

Prateek Jain, Srinadh Bhojanapalli, Sujay Sanghavi, in Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), January 7, 2015, View abstract

On (1, eps)-Restricted Assignment Makespan Minimization

Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Sanjeev Khanna, Shi Li, in Proceedings of SODA, ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, January 1, 2015, View abstract

Dependent Array Type Inference from Tests

He Zhu, Aditya Nori, Suresh Jagannathan, in VMCAI '15: Verification, Model Checking and Abstract Interpretation, Springer, January 1, 2015, View abstract

The Hidden Graph Model: Communication Locality and Optimal Resiliency with Adaptive Faults

Nishanth Chandran, Wutichai Chongchitmate, Juan A. Garay, Shafi Goldwasser, Rafail Ostrovsky, Vassilis Zikas, in Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science, ITCS 2015, Rehovot, Israel, January 11-13, 2015, ACM, January 1, 2015, View abstract

Structurally Heterogeneous Source Code Examples from Unstructured Knowledge Sources

Venkatesh Vinayakarao, Rahul Purandare, Aditya Nori, in Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation (PEPM), ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, January 1, 2015, View abstract

A Framework for Efficient Modular Heap Analysis

G. Ramalingam, Kapil Vaswani, in Foundations and Trends in Programming Languages, January 1, 2015, View abstract

Relax, No Need to Round: Integrality of Clustering Formulations

Pranjal Awasthi, Afonso S. Bandeira, Moses Charikar, Ravishankar Krishnaswamy, Soledad Villar, Rachel Ward, in Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science, ACM, January 1, 2015, View abstract

Fast algorithms for online stochastic convex programming

Shipra Agrawal, Nikhil Rangarajan, in SODA 2015 (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms), SIAM – Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, January 1, 2015, View abstract

Provable Submodular Minimization using Wolfe’s Algorithm

Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Prateek Jain, Pravesh Kothari, in Proceedings of NIPS, December 1, 2014, View abstract

“ye word kis lang ka hai bhai?” Testing the Limits of Word level Language Identification

Spandana Gella, Kalika Bali, Monojit Choudhury, NLPAI, December 1, 2014, View abstract

Online and Stochastic Gradient Methods for Non-decomposable Loss Functions

Prateek Jain, , in Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Neural Information Processing Systems, December 1, 2014, View abstract

Non-convex Robust PCA

Praneeth Netrapalli, U N Niranjan, Sujay Sanghavi, Anima Anandkumar, Prateek Jain, December 1, 2014, View abstract

On Iterative Hard Thresholding Methods for High-dimensional M-Estimation

, Prateek Jain, in Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Neural Information Processing Systems, December 1, 2014, View abstract

Turk-Life in India

Neha Gupta, David Martin, Ben Hanrahan, Jacki O'Neill, in Proceedings of Group 2014, ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork, November 9, 2014, View abstract

Characterizing Large-Scale Click Fraud in ZeroAccess

Paul Pearce, Vacha Dave, Chris Grier, Kirill Levchenko, Saikat Guha, Damon McCoy, Vern Paxson, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker, in Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, November 2, 2014, View abstract

Powering the Static Driver Verifier using Corral

Akash Lal, Shaz Qadeer, in Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), November 1, 2014, View abstract

Word-level Language Identification using CRF: Code-switching Shared Task Report of MSR India System

Gokul Chittaranjan, Yogarshi Vyas, Kalika Bali, Monojit Choudhury, in Proceedings of the First Workshop on Computational Approaches to Code Switching, Association for Computational Linguistics, October 1, 2014, View abstract

An Exponential Lower Bound for Homogeneous Depth Four Arithmetic Formulas

Neeraj Kayal, Nutan Limaye, Chandan Saha, Srikanth Srinivasan, in Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, October 1, 2014, View abstract

POS Tagging of English-Hindi Code-Mixed Social Media Content

Yogarshi Vyas, Spandana Gella, Jatin Sharma, Kalika Bali, Monojit Choudhury, in Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Association for Computational Linguistics, October 1, 2014, View abstract

A Program Transformation for Faster Goal-Directed Search

Akash Lal, Shaz Qadeer, in Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD), FMCAD, October 1, 2014, View abstract

Demo: Tracking User Browsing on a Demo Floor

Aishwarya Ganesan, Swati Rallapalli, Krishna Chintalapudi, Venkat Padmanabhan, Lili Qiu, in Mobicom 2014, ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, September 7, 2014, View abstract

Enabling Physical Analytics in Retail Stores Using Smart Glasses

Swati Rallapalli, Aishwarya Ganesan, Krishna Chintalapudi, Venkat Padmanabhan, Lili Qiu, , in ACM Mobicom 2014, ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, September 7, 2014, View abstract

WiFi-XL: Extending WiFi to Wide Areas in White Spaces

Apurv Bhartia, Mahanth Gowda, Krishna Kant Chintalapudi, Bozidar Radunovic, Ramachandran Ramjee, Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Lili Qiu, Romit Roy Chowdhury, Krishna Chintalapudi, Microsoft Research, September 1, 2014, View abstract

A Distributed Algorithm for Training Nonlinear Kernel Machines

Dhruv Mahajan, Keerthi Selvaraj, Sundararajan Sellamanickam, CoRR, September 1, 2014, View abstract

FastXML: A Fast, Accurate and Stable Tree-classifier for eXtreme Multi-label Learning

Yashoteja Prabhu, Manik Varma, in Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, August 1, 2014, View abstract

Online Gaming for Crowdsourcing Phrase-equivalents

A Kumaran, in the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics , ACL – Association for Computational Linguistics, August 1, 2014, View abstract

Discovering and understanding word level user intent in Web search queries

Rishiraj Saha Roy, Rahul Katare, Niloy Ganguly, Srivatsan Laxman, Monojit Choudhury, in Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, Elsevier, August 1, 2014, View abstract

Foundations of Data Science

John Hopcroft, Ravi Kannan, null, August 1, 2014, View abstract

Privacy amplification with asymptotically optimal entropy loss

Nishanth Chandran, Bhavana Kanukurthi, Rafail Ostrovsky, Leonid Reyzin, in Journal of ACM, ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, August 1, 2014, View abstract

FastXML: A Fast, Accurate and Stable Tree-classifier for eXtreme Multi-label Learning

Yashoteja Prabhu, Manik Varma, ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, August 1, 2014, View abstract

Position-Based Cryptography

Nishanth Chandran, Vipul Goyal, Ryan Moriarty, Rafail Ostrovsky, in SIAM Journal on Computing, SIAM – Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, August 1, 2014, View abstract

Active Learning for Sparse Bayesian Multilabel Classification

Deepak Vasisht, Andreas Damianou, Manik Varma, Ashish Kapoor, in Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, August 1, 2014, View abstract

R2: An Efficient MCMC Sampler for Probabilistic Programs

Aditya Nori, Chung-Kil Hur, Sriram Rajamani, , in AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), AAAI, July 1, 2014, View abstract

Improving Unsupervised Query Segmentation using Parts-of-Speech Sequence Information

Rishiraj Saha Roy, Yogarshi Vyas, Niloy Ganguly, Monojit Choudhury, in Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR '14), ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, July 1, 2014, View abstract

Constrained Pseudorandom Functions: Verifiable and Delegatable

Nishanth Chandran, Srinivasan Raghuraman, Dhinakaran Vinayagamurthy, in IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive, July 1, 2014, View abstract

Query Expansion for Mixed-Script Information Retrieval

Rafael E. Banchs, Monojit Choudhury, Paolo Rosso, Parth Gupta, Kalika Bali, ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, July 1, 2014, View abstract

Learning Sparsely Used Overcomplete Dictionaries

Alekh Agarwal, Animashree Anandkumar, Prateek Jain, Praneeth Netrapalli, Rashish Tandon, in Proceedings of The 27th Conference on Learning Theory, COLT 2014, Barcelona, Spain, June 13-15, 2014, July 1, 2014, View abstract

Learning Mixtures of Discrete Product Distributions using Spectral Decompositions

Prateek Jain, Sewoong Oh, in Proceedings of The 27th Conference on Learning Theory, COLT 2014, Barcelona, Spain, June 13-15, 2014, July 1, 2014, View abstract

Universal Matrix Completion

Srinadh Bhojanapalli, Prateek Jain, in Proceedings of the 31th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2014, Beijing, China, 21-26 June 2014, July 1, 2014, View abstract

Large-scale Multi-label Learning with Missing Labels

Prateek Jain, , in Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Journal of Machine Learning Research, June 1, 2014, View abstract

Extrinsic Influence Factors in Software Reliability: A Study of 200,000 Windows Machines

Christian Bird, Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan, Andreas Zeller, in Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014), ACM, June 1, 2014, View abstract

On p-norm path following in multiple kernel learning for non-linear feature selection

Manik Varma, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning, Journal of Machine Learning Research, June 1, 2014, View abstract

Bandits with concave rewards and convex knapsacks

Shipra Agrawal, Nikhil Rangarajan, in EC 2014, ACM conference on Economics and Computation, June 1, 2014, View abstract

Slicing Probabilistic Programs

Chung-Kil Hur, Aditya Nori, Sriram Rajamani, , in Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), ACM, June 1, 2014, View abstract

(Near) Dimension Independent Risk Bounds for Differentially Private Learning

Prateek Jain, Abhradeep Guha Thakurta, in Proceedings of the 31th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2014, Beijing, China, 21-26 June 2014, June 1, 2014, View abstract

A super-polynomial lower bound for regular arithmetic formulas.

Neeraj Kayal, Chandan Saha, Ramprasad Saptharishi, in Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, June 1, 2014, View abstract

Super-polynomial lower bounds for depth four homogeneous arithmetic formulas

Neeraj Kayal, Nutan Limaye, Chandan Saha, Srikanth Srinivasan, in Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, June 1, 2014, View abstract

Ethnography in Parallel

Jacki O'Neill, Rinku Gajera, in COOP 2014-Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, Springer, May 27, 2014, View abstract

MUX: Algorithm Selection for Software Model Checkers

Varun Tulsian, Aditya Kanade, Rahul Kumar, Akash Lal, Aditya Nori, in Mining Software Repositories (MSR), ACM, May 1, 2014, View abstract

Probabilistic Programming

Andrew D. Gordon, Thomas A. Henzinger, Aditya Nori, Sriram Rajamani, Andy Gordon, in International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE Future of Software Engineering), IEEE, May 1, 2014, View abstract

Bootstrapping Privacy Compliance in Big Data Systems

Shayak Sen, Saikat Guha, Anupam Dutta, Sriram Rajamani, Janice Tsai, Jeannette Wing, in Proceedings of the 35th IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (Oakland), May 1, 2014, View abstract

Cluster Before You Hallucinate: Approximating Node-capacitated Network Design and Energy Efficient Routing

Ravishankar Krishnaswamy, Viswanath Nagarajan, Kirk Pruhs, Cliff Stein, in Proceedings of the 46th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, ACM, May 1, 2014, View abstract

Checking Linearizability of Encapsulated Extended Operations

Oren Zomer, Guy Golan-Gueta, G. Ramalingam, Mooly Sagiv, G. Ramalingam, Proceedings of European Symposium on Programming (ESOP), April 1, 2014, View abstract

Understanding the Linguistic Structure and Evolution of Web Search Queries

Rishiraj Saha Roy, M. Dastagiri Reddy, Niloy Ganguly, Monojit Choudhury, EVOLANG, April 1, 2014, View abstract

Optimizing Mobile Deployments

Ariel Schwartz, Mohini Bhavsar, Ed Cutrell, Jonathan Donner, Melissa Densmore, April 1, 2014, View abstract

Adtributor: Revenue Debugging in Advertising Systems

Ranjita Bhagwan, Rahul Kumar, Ramachandran Ramjee, George Varghese, Surjyakanta Mohapatra, Hemanth Manoharan, Piyush Shah, in Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implemenentation (NSDI), USENIX, April 1, 2014, View abstract

Re-encryption, Functional Re-encryption, and Multi-hop Re-encryption: A Framework for Achieving Obfuscation-Based Security and Instantiations from Lattices

Nishanth Chandran, Melissa Chase, Feng-Hao Liu, Ryo Nishimaki, Keita Xagawa, in Public-Key Cryptography - PKC 2014 - 17th International Conference on Practice and Theory in Public-Key Cryptography, Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 26-28, 2014. Proceedings, Springer, March 1, 2014, View abstract

Locally Updatable and Locally Decodable Codes

Nishanth Chandran, Bhavana Kanukurthi, Rafail Ostrovsky, in Theory of Cryptography - 11th Theory of Cryptography Conference, TCC 2014, San Diego, CA, USA, February 24-26, 2014. Proceedings, Springer, March 1, 2014, View abstract

Being a turker

Benjamin V. Hanrahan, Jacki O'Neill, Neha Gupta, David, Martin, in Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing, pp. 224-235., ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, February 15, 2014, View abstract

VidWiki: Enabling the Crowd to Improve the Legibility of Online Educational Videos

Bill Thies, Ed Cutrell, Andrew Cross, ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, February 12, 2014, View abstract

No “one-size fits all”: Towards a principled approach for incentives in mobile crowdsourcing

John Rula, Vishnu Navda, Fabian Bustamante, Ranjita Bhagwan, Saikat Guha, in Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile), February 1, 2014, View abstract

Get Me Here: Using Verification Tools to Answer Developer Questions

Mike Barnett, Rob DeLine, Akash Lal, Shaz Qadeer, February 1, 2014, View abstract

Better Algorithms and Hardness for Broadcast Scheduling via a Discrepancy Approach

Nikhil Bansal, Moses Charikar, Ravishankar Krishnaswamy, Shi Li, in Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, January 1, 2014, View abstract

Bias-Variance Tradeoffs in Program Analysis

Alex Aiken, Aditya Nori, , in Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), ACM, January 1, 2014, View abstract

Hashing Hyperplane Queries to Near Points with Applications to Large-Scale Active Learning

Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan, Prateek Jain, Kristen Grauman, in IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. (PAMI), January 1, 2014, View abstract

Hallucination Helps: Energy Efficient Virtual Circuit Routing

Antonios Antoniadis, Sungjin Im, Ravishankar Krishnaswamy, Benjamin Moseley, Viswanath Nagarajan, Kirk Pruhs, Cliff Stein, in Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, January 1, 2014, View abstract

A distributed block coordinate descent method for training l1 regularized linear classifiers

Dhruv Mahajan, Keerthi Selvaraj, Sundararajan Sellamanickam, CoRR, January 1, 2014, View abstract

Position-Based Quantum Cryptography: Impossibility and Constructions

Harry Buhrman, Nishanth Chandran, Serge Fehr, Ran Gelles, Vipul Goyal, Rafail Ostrovsky, Christian Schaffner, in SIAM Journal on Computing, SIAM – Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, January 1, 2014, View abstract

Massively Empowered Classroom: Enhancing Technical Education in India

Ed Cutrell, Srinath Bala, Chetan Bansal, Andrew Cross, Naren Datha, Aldo John, Rahul Kumar, Madhusudan Parthasarathy, Siddharth Prakash, Sriram Rajamani, Bill Thies, Microsoft Technical Report, December 31, 2013, View abstract

Balancing Burden and Benefit: Non-Prescribed Use of Employer-Issued Mobile Devices

Ariel Schwartz, Mohini Bhavsar, Ed Cutrell, Jonathan Donner, Melissa Densmore, in Proc. ICTD 2013, Dec 07-10 2013, Cape Town, South Africa, ACM, December 7, 2013, View abstract

Understanding jugaad: ICTD and the tensions of appropriation, innovation and utility

Nimmi Rangaswamy, Melissa Densmore, in Proceedings of ICTD 2013, the 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, Cape Town, South Africa, ACM, December 1, 2013, View abstract

Phase Retrieval using Alternating Minimization

Praneeth Netrapalli, Prateek Jain, Sujay Sanghavi, in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 26: 27th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2013. Proceedings of a meeting held December 5-8, 2013, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, United States., December 1, 2013, View abstract

Memory Limited, Streaming PCA

Ioannis Mitliagkas, Constantine Caramanis, Prateek Jain, in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 26: 27th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2013. Proceedings of a meeting held December 5-8, 2013, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, United States., December 1, 2013, View abstract

Using automated voice calls to improve adherence to iron supplements during pregnancy: A pilot study

William Thies, Edward Cutrell, Niranjan Pai, Pradnya Supe, Shailesh Kore, Y.S. Nandanwar, Aparna Hegde, Ed Cutrell, Bill Thies, in Proceedings of ICTD 2013, the 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, ACM, December 1, 2013, View abstract

Multiple Mouse Text Entry for Single-Display Groupware

Saleema Amershi, Meredith Ringel Morris, Neema Moraveji, Ravin Balakrishnan, Kentaro Toyama, in CSCW, ACM, February 10, 2010, View abstract

Tighter Low-rank Approximation via Sampling the Leveraged Element

Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology

Nature in the City: Changes in Bangalore over Time and Space

November 19, 2015

Speakers

Harini Nagendra

Affiliation

University and Azim Premji Foundation

A Software only Mechanism for Device Pass-Through and Sharing

September 30, 2015

Speakers

Piyus Kedia

Affiliation

Microsoft

MobileFusion: Create 3D scans with your mobile phone

August 24, 2015

An Introduction to Concentration Inequalities and Statistical Learning Theory

August 24, 2015

Speakers

Purushottam Kar

Affiliation

MSRI

July 1, 2015

Extreme Multi-Label Classification

June 26, 2015

Speakers

Yashoteja Prabhu

Affiliation

IIT Delhi

Characterizing Large-Scale Click Fraud in ZeroAccess

June 20, 2015

How Different is ‘Different’: A Perspective on Music Similarity in Indian Art Music

June 15, 2015

Speakers

Kaustuv Kanti Ganguli

Affiliation

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai

WIKIBHASHA NEW

June 10, 2015

99DOTS: low-cost monitoring and improving medication adherence

May 26, 2015

DebugAdvisor- a recommendation system for debugging

May 11, 2015

Rich Interactive Narratives- Microsoft Research India

May 4, 2015

P: Safe Asynchronous Event-Driven Programming

May 3, 2015

Sriram Rajamani: Assistant Director MSRI, talks about Microsoft Research Fellow Program

January 8, 2015

Squared Distance Matrix of a Tree

December 9, 2014

Speakers

Ravindra B. Bapat

Affiliation

Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi

ThirdEye: Tracking User’s Physical Browsing in Indoor Spaces

November 12, 2014

Communication with Imperfectly Shared Randomness

October 10, 2014

Speakers

Madhu Sudan

Affiliation

Microsoft

Konstantinos Vamvourellis talks about his stint at MSR India

September 15, 2014

Affiliation

City University of New York

Sumit Roy

Affiliation

White Space Networking and Spectrum Sharing – Part 2

July 30, 2014

Speakers

Sumit Roy

Microsoft

Peter Lee

Affiliation

Microsoft Research

Machine Learning, Natural Language Systems and Applications

Established: April 12, 2015

Understanding, analyzing and processing data is at the core of building most of the modern large scale systems and intelligent applications. We work on various aspects of data-driven algorithms including fast machine learning algorithms that can learn from large scale…

Systems

Established: April 9, 2015

Systems work at MSR India covers a broad spectrum of areas ranging from program verification, programming languages and tools, distributed systems, networking and security. We are interested in both building real world systems and studying the principles behind how to…

Foundations

Established: April 9, 2015

Algorithms and Data Sciences Two features are common to much of the field of Algorithms- mathematical guarantees of time and space for even the worst-case input and random access to the entire input. The field however anticipated the explosion of…

Technology for Emerging Markets

Established: November 30, 2004

The Technology for Emerging Markets group seeks to address the needs and aspirations of people in the world's developing communities. Our research targets people who are increasingly consuming computing technologies and services as well as those for whom access to…

Academic Research Summit

Infosys Ltd., Hinjewadi Campus, Phase II, Pune, India | January 2016

The Academic Research Summit was a forum to share ideas and results on some of the most exciting new directions in computer science.

MSR India Summer School 2016 on IoT

Indian Institue of Science , Bangalore, INDIA | June 2016

The MSR India Summer School series, held in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), consists of lectures in a chosen area by leading experts from around the world. The aim is to introduce students and researchers to important…

MSR India Summer School 2015 on Machine Learning

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore India | June 2015

TechFest 2010

Redmond, WA, U.S. | March 2010

TechVista 2010

Bangalore, India | January 2010

TechVista brings together the best minds from the scientific and academic worlds onto a common platform and provides an opportunity for the research community, government, and students to interact and exchange ideas on research and its future directions.

99DOTS

Established: May 1, 2014

Low-cost medication adherence and monitoring 99DOTS is a technology-enabled project focusing on medication adherence for anti-Tuberculosis drugs. Treatment programs wrap each anti-TB blister pack in a custom envelope, which hides phone numbers behind the medication. Patients can only see these hidden…

UIs for Low-Literate Users

Established: June 20, 2006

One of the greatest challenges in providing information and communication technology access is that about 775 million people in the world are completely non-literate and many are able to read only with great difficulty and effort. Even though mobile phone…

Project Mélange

Established: January 1, 2012

Project Mélange: Understanding MixEd LANguaGE and Code-mixing The goal of Project Mélange is to understand the uses of and build tools around code-mixing. Multilingual communities exhibit code-mixing, that is, mixing of two or more socially stable languages in a single…

Future workplaces

Established: April 26, 2016

Technology platforms are emerging as a new kind of workplace: from crowdwork to ‘peer economy’ platforms. This project uses ethnographic methods to address questions such as: Who are the workers on these platforms? What are their work practices? How do…

Safe asynchronous programming with P and P#

Established: March 15, 2016

We are designing programming languages for building safe and reliable asynchronous systems. The languages are based on the programming idiom of communicating state machines. They offer first-class support for writing safety and liveness specifications as well as building abstract models of…

Green Spaces

Established: July 1, 2010

Connecting the Next Billion Users to the Broadband Internet. The number of broadband Internet subscribers in India in July 2015 is only 113 million, or less than 10% of India’s population. To extend the availability of broadband Internet to the…

Seabed

Established: December 1, 2015

Seabed is a project to provide analytics over encrypted Big Data. The challenge is to develop fast yet secure cryptographic techniques that support a suite of applications such as Business Intelligence tools and large-scale Machine Learning frameworks. Currently, we are…

Trusted Cloud

Established: August 31, 2015

The Trusted Cloud project at Microsoft Research aims to provide customers of cloud computing complete control over their data: no one should be able to access the data without the customer’s permission. Even if there are malicious employees…

PinDrop

Established: May 28, 2015

The PinDrop project focuses on building the substrate for supporting high-quality real-time streaming over wired and wireless networks. Context Real-time streaming across the wide-area network (WAN) is key to several existing and anticipated services, including voice and video conferencing (e.g.,…

Provable Non-convex Optimization for Machine Learning Problems

Established: April 4, 2014

In this work, we explore theoretical properties of simple non-convex optimization methods for problems that feature prominently in several important areas such as recommendation systems, compressive sensing, computer vision etc. Talks: Provable Non-convex Optimization for Machine Learning. Summer School on…

R2: A Probabilistic Programming System

Established: July 16, 2013

What is R2? R2 is a probabilistic programming system that uses powerful techniques from program analysis and verification for efficient Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) inference. The language that is used to describe probabilistic models in R2 is based on…

Q Program Verifier

Established: May 9, 2013

The Q program verifier is a collection of front-ends that compile different source languages to an intermediate representation (IR), and back-ends that perform verification on the IR. Together, Q is a verification platform that hosts multiple tools and technologies for…

Infer.NET Fun

Established: April 2, 2012

"I think it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing." Alan J. Perlis - ACM Turing Award Winner 1966. Infer.NET Fun turns the simple succinct syntax of F# into an executable modeling language for Bayesian machine…

Duality

Established: February 7, 2012

Duality solves Relation Post-Fixed Point problems using Craig interpolation. In can be used, for example, to generate proofs for procedural programs in the form of procedure summaries. Duality is envisioned as a generic engine for program analysis, supporting applications such…

Rich Interactive Narratives

Established: July 23, 2010

The Microsoft Rich Interactive Narratives (RIN) research project combines traditional forms of storytelling with new visualization technologies to create compelling interactive digital narratives. The RIN project is an undertaking by Microsoft Research India in collaboration with…

CoCoNet

Established: June 1, 2009

Content Compression in Networks With the advent of globalization, networked services have a global audience. For example, a large corporation today may have branch offices at dozens of cities around the globe. In such a setting, the corporation's IT admins…

SixthSense

Established: December 26, 2008

RFID based enterprise intelligence The vision of the SixthSense project in the MNS group at Microsoft Research India is the workplace or home of the future where computing is extended to encompass non-computing entities such as people, objects, and spaces to…

NetPrints

Established: March 1, 2009

Diagnosing Home Network Misconfigurations using Shared Knowledge The Problem Today's home network is typically a collection of several devices and applications. While the broadband modem acts as the home's window to the Internet world, there are a variety of different…

Visual tracking

Established: October 7, 2008

At Microsoft Research Cambridge we are developing new machine vision algorithms to automatically track moving objects in image sequences. Demos (click to download demo videos) video 1 video 2 video 3 video 4 Computer Vision at MSR Cambridge

The Yogi Project

Established: August 1, 2007

Yogi is a research project within the Rigorous Software Engineering group at Microsoft Research India on software property checking. Our goal is to build a scalable software property checker by systematically combining static analysis with testing. We believe that this…

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We are Hiring!

We are looking for curious minds that can make our next batch of Research Fellows at Microsoft Research India.
Applications for the 2017 cycle of the Research Fellow program are open now!

Application Procedure: Apply with your CV, a statement of research, and at least one letter of recommendation about your ability and aptitude for research. Applications are accepted at our careers website. Please submit your application at https://careers.research.microsoft.com/.

(UPDATE: We learned that the careers site requires contact information for two letter writers. If you would like to have just one letter writer, please enter dummy information for the second letter writer. For example, you can enter first name and last name “none”, email address “none@none.com”, and university “Other”. Thank you!)

For 2016-2017, we will review applications in both the fall and the spring. Here is the timeline:

September 23, 2016: Deadline for full consideration in fall cycle.
November – December, 2016: Offers extended to fall applicants.
February 1, 2017: Deadline for full consideration in spring cycle.
April – May, 2017: Offers extended to spring applicants.
July, 2017: Research Fellows start (from both fall and spring application cycles).

For candidates who have completed a PhD, we have a different program called Post-Doctoral Research Fellow program.

Ganesh Ananthanarayanan

“Awesome ‘pre-doc’ program that convinced me about a research career. Great launch pad after undergrad to hit the ground running during my PhD!”

Pavan A

“I really loved meeting a lot of people from different backgrounds in computer science, be it researchers or the diverse interns. It gave me a broad idea about research in CS. I liked the fact that I was always working on new code, and not having to maintain old code (as in traditional software companies). The best part about my work was the freedom to think for myself, the independence and ownership of my project.”

Bhavish Aggarwal

“Great program. Helped me build an analytical rigour beyond college and a curiosity for all things tech that helped in my future as an entrepreneur.”

Raajay Vishwanathan

“For me personally, the RAship @ MSRI, cleared any hesitations about wanting to pursue a career in research. Being able to work with really smart people, familiarizing with hottest problems across different CS fields and learning/adopting the rigorous approach to tackle them, gave me a 2-year head start at grad school. An awesome bunch of people to hang out with, if one is interested in CS research.”

Aditya Vashistha

“The MSR RA program was a remarkable two year journey that gave me tremendous opportunities to find technological solutions for the world’s biggest problems in the domain of healthcare, information access and civic engagement.”

Rahul Kidambi

“Three attributes come to my mind while describing my time at MSR India as an RA: Amazing mentors, a very open atmosphere to brainstorm and work on exciting problems that you feel most passionate about, and really smart and friendly people around you to hang out with.”

Rikin Gandhi

“I got to research how technology could help me be the change in rural India and launch Microsoft’s first nonprofit spin-off, Digital Green.”

Abishek Kumarasubramanian

“I absolutely loved it. I cannot think any other option that would be more fun and more useful for a research career. Phenomenal! And Fantastic is what I always feel when I think about my AR times.”

Tathagata Das

“The AR program gave me the chance to work with the brightest minds. It helped me to unlock my research potential and eventually achieve my dream career path.”

Prabhanjan Ananth

“I liked the fact that independent thinking was encouraged which has helped me in developing my research abilities. Another plus point is being surrounded by researchers and other RAs who have greatly inspired me.”

Abhijnan Chakraborty

“The time I spent as RA at MSR India was very memorable and enriching experience for me. It exposed a young graduate like me, who was fresh out of college, to the world of research. I worked under close mentorship of world class researchers for two years, where I learned how to design solutions for real-world problems, which have the potential to impact millions of people. I was encouraged to publish papers and attend top tier conferences, which helped me to choose research as the long-term career option.”

Suraj Jain“MSR gave me opportunity to work with world class researchers and convert my ideas into working product used by millions of peoples worldwide.”

Pritish Kamath

“At MSR, I was exposed to the frontiers of research. Working with an exceptional mentor and colleagues helped me towards gaining the much-needed maturity before starting grad school.”

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