Microsoft Research Podcast

Ideas: Steering AI toward the work future we want 

Microsoft Chief Scientist Jaime Teevan and researchers Jenna Butler, Jake Hofman, and Rebecca Janssen unpack the New Future of Work Report 2025 and explore the ideal AI-driven working world. Plus, is AI a tool or a collaborator? And why the answer matters.

Recent Podcasts

  1. Microsoft Research Podcast | Collaborators: Healthcare Innovation to Impact | outline illustrations of Jonathan Carlson, Smitha Saligrama, Will Guyman, Cameron Runde, Dr. Matthew Lungren

    Collaborators: Healthcare Innovation to Impact 

    May 20, 2025

    In this discussion, Matthew Lungren, Jonathan Carlson, Smitha Saligrama, Will Guyman, and Cameron Runde explore how teams across Microsoft are working together to generate advanced AI capabilities and solutions for developers and clinicians around the globe.

  2. Outline illustration of Daniela Massiceti next to Martin Grayson

    Abstracts: September 30, 2024 

    September 30, 2024 | Amber Tingle, Daniela Massiceti, and Martin Grayson

    The personalizable object recognizer Find My Things was recently recognized for accessible design. Researcher Daniela Massiceti and software development engineer Martin Grayson talk about the research project’s origins and the tech advances making it possible.

  3. Microsoft Research Podcast | What's Your Story | Weishung Liu

    What’s Your Story: Weishung Liu 

    May 30, 2024 | Johannes Gehrke and Weishung Liu

    Principal PM Manager Weishung Liu shares how a career delivering products and customer experiences aligns with her love of people and storytelling and how—despite efforts to defy the expectations that come with growing up in Silicon Valley—she landed in tech.

  4. Jianfeng Gao on the Microsoft Research Podcast

    Going deep on deep learning with Dr. Jianfeng Gao 

    Episode 104 |

    Dr. Jianfeng Gao is a veteran computer scientist, an IEEE Fellow and the current head of the Deep Learning Group at Microsoft Research. He and his team are exploring novel approaches to advancing the state-of-the-art on deep learning in areas like NLP, computer vision, multi-modal…

  5. Photo of Andrew Fitgibbon

    All Data AI with Dr. Andrew Fitzgibbon 

    June 12, 2019

    You may not know who Dr. Andrew Fitzgibbon is, but if you’ve watched a TV show or movie in the last two decades, you’ve probably seen some of his work. An expert in 3D computer vision and graphics, and head of the new All Data…