About
I am currently an Applied Scientist at Microsoft. I am also the Co-Founder of the Plural Technology Collaboratory at Microsoft Research (see mission statement).
Previous Technical Projects
- Lead of the Healthcare Agent Orchestrator (Transforming Tumor Boards: AI Agents and the New Era of Personalized Cancer Care – Microsoft Research)
- Co-author Contextual Confidence Framework (paper (opens in new tab)) in collaboration with researchers from OpenAI (Zoë Hitzig and Pamela Mishkin). Featured in Microsoft Research 2023 Highlights. Accepted to SaTML 2025.
- Co-author of Cross-Platform Origin of Content provenance framework (GitHub (opens in new tab)).
- Co-author of Sandi: Accountability Mechanism (paper (opens in new tab)), see Microsoft Research Blog.
- Co-author of designated verifier signatures (GitHub (opens in new tab)).
- Co-author of zero-knowledge identity badges (GitHub (opens in new tab)).
Selected papers
- Jain, Shrey, Hitzig, Zoë., Mishkin, Pamela., “Contextual Confidence and Generative AI (opens in new tab)”, October, 2023. Accepeted to SaTML 2025.
- Wojtowicz, Zachary., Jain Shrey., Vincent, Nick “Push and Pull: A Framework for Measuring Attentional Agency (opens in new tab)”, May, 2024. Accepted to ACM FAccT 2025.
- Jain, Shrey, et al. “AI and Democracy’s Digital Identity Crisis (opens in new tab)”, SSRN, October, 2023.
- Laine, Kim, Shrey Jain, et al. “Rethinking trust in direct messages in the AI era”, Microsoft Research, September, 2023.
- Jain, Shrey, Divya Siddarth, and E. Glen Weyl. “Plural Publics (opens in new tab).” Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University, March, 2023.
- Jain, Shrey, Leon Erichsen, and Glen Weyl. “A plural decentralized identity frontier: Abstraction v. composability tradeoffs in web3 (opens in new tab).” arXiv preprint, August 2022.
- Jain, Shrey, et al., “Flatten: COVID-19 Survey Data on Symptoms, Demographics and Mental Health in Canada (version 1.0) (opens in new tab)” PhysioNet, May 2021.
- Jain, Shrey, et al. “Digital healthcare tools for the world’s poorest people and places: A new framework for syndromic surveillance forged in the fight against COVID-19 in Somalia (opens in new tab).” JMIR Preprints, April, 2021.
Media
I have given numerous talks and been on many podcasts relating to this research. Here are a few where I address core parts of my research:
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- Transforming Tumor Boards: AI Agents and the New Era of Personalized Cancer Care – Microsoft Research
- Microsoft Research Podcast on “Contextual Confidence and Generative AI” paper with Zoë Hitzig
- EDCON Montenegro, 2023 Talk (opens in new tab)
- Plurality Network Conference, Berkeley, California, 2023 (opens in new tab)
- DevCon, Bogota, 2022 Talk (opens in new tab)
- Bankless Green Pill Podcast, 2023 (opens in new tab)
- Radical X Change Podcast, 2023 (opens in new tab)
- Network Society Panel Moderated, Green Independence Conference, Warsaw, Poland (opens in new tab)
- Where to use a blockchain in non-financial applications? Reviewer to Vitalik Buterin (Founder of Ethereum) blog on this (opens in new tab)
- Schelling Point, Bogota, 2022 Talk (opens in new tab)
- Innovate Moldova in Chișinău, Moldova, 2022 (opens in new tab)
- Active Inference Institute Podcast, 2023 (opens in new tab)
- Social Zero-Knowledge Projects in Ethereum, 2022 (opens in new tab)
- Exploring Mechanism Design within Gitcoin, 2022 (opens in new tab)
- Visualizing Contextual Integrity Posting, 2023 (opens in new tab)
- Decentralized Identity Landscape, 2022 (opens in new tab)
- British Medical Journal, Innovations, MIT COVID-19 Datathon: data without boundaries (opens in new tab)
- Digital healthcare tools for the world’s poorest people and places: A new framework for syndromic surveillance forged in the fight against COVID-19 in Somalia (opens in new tab)
- Flatten: COVID-19 Survey Data on Symptoms, Demographics and Mental Health in Canada (opens in new tab)
- CBC Interview with Rosemary Barton, Flatten (opens in new tab)
- Toronto Star Article on Flatten (opens in new tab)
- Symptom Tracking Locally, National Post Article (opens in new tab)
- How big data, population health and other scientists are trying to map COVID-19 in the community (opens in new tab)
- COVID-19 on a Map, BlogTO (opens in new tab)
- Canadian university students create map of self-reported potential COVID-19 cases (opens in new tab)
- UofT News, Engineering students create free online map to help track the spread of COVID-19 (opens in new tab)