About
Tianwei Chen is a senior software engineering manager at Microsoft focusing on agentic AI systems. His work spans the design and evaluation of autonomous agent frameworks, memory architectures for long-horizon tasks, and methodologies for assessing agent performance and reliability. He brings a practitioner’s perspective to his research, grounding theoretical investigation in the realities of building and deploying intelligent systems at scale. His interests sit at the intersection of systems engineering and applied AI, with a particular emphasis on how agents reason, retain context, and can be rigorously evaluated over time. He is committed to advancing both the technical foundations and practical standards of agentic AI development.