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  1. Microsoft Research Asia StarTrack Scholars 2026: Societal AI——Upholding “Trustworthiness” and “Science” Amid Technological Transformation 

    December 8, 2025

    As large language models and other large-scale AI technologies advance rapidly, we are witnessing a profound societal transformation. These models not only possess general-purpose capabilities—excelling at tasks such as translation, question-answering, and programming—but in many scenarios perform at a level comparable to or even surpassing…

  2. Astral Space: Convex Analysis at Infinity 

    December 8, 2025 | Miro Dudík, Robert E. Schapire, and Matus Telgarsky

    Not all convex functions on Rn have finite minimizers; some can only be minimized by a sequence as it heads to infinity. In this work, we aim to develop a theory for understanding such minimizers at infinity. We study astral space, a compact extension of…

  3. Research Intern – AI Network Observability 

    December 6, 2025

    As a Research Intern in the Strategic Planning and Architecture (SPARC) group, you will contribute to the research, design, and development of tools to provide insights into multi-path network transports for large-scale Artificial Intelligence (AI) datacenter environments. Your work will focus on building high-performance tracing…

  4. Research Intern – AI Frameworks (Network Systems and Tools) 

    December 6, 2025

    Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) increasingly depend on breakthroughs in systems and architecture, where hardware, models, and software must be co-designed to scale efficiently. This Research Internship offers the opportunity to explore next-generation AI systems through performance modeling, architectural analysis, and emerging inference mechanisms. Research…

  6. Research Intern – Environmental Policy/Public Policy 

    December 6, 2025

    Microsoft Research (MSR) is seeking Research Interns to join our team and contribute to cutting-edge projects in decision making and policy analysis. Research Interns will collaborate with world-class researchers and engineers to advance the state of the art.

  7. Research Intern – Computational Social Science 

    December 6, 2025

    The Microsoft Research Computational Social Science (CSS) group is widely recognized as a leading center of computational social science research, lying at the intersection of computer science, statistics, and the social sciences. We have been heavily focused recently on the intersection of AI-based tools and…

  8. Senior Machine Learning Researcher – MSR AI for Science 

    December 5, 2025

    We seek a highly motivated ML Researchers to join our Biomolecular Emulator (BioEmu) and Small Molecules Drug Discovery project. The BioEmu project aims to model the dynamics and function of proteins --- how they change shape, bind to each other, and bind small molecules. In…

  9. Senior Researcher – Copilot Tuning Research 

    December 5, 2025

    The Copilot Tuning Research team is seeking a Senior Researcher with stellar research and system building skills and the desire to pursue the cutting edge in model development that pushes technological boundaries of AI for productivity applications across industries and domains. We are looking for…

  12. 10 Scientific breakthroughs from Microsoft researchers 

    December 5, 2025

    As AI becomes a bigger part of everyday life, scientists are finding exciting new ways of harnessing its transformative power to tackle some of society’s biggest challenges. From designing new materials to mapping flood risks through clouds, Microsoft researchers are using AI to solve problems more quickly…