Session on Inclusive AI: Data, Models, Evaluation
Microsoft Research India Academic Research Summit 2026 Speakers: Niloy Ganguly, IIT Kharagpur; Danish Pruthi, IIsc Bangalore; Sunayana Sitaram, Microsoft; Anoop Kunchukuttan, Bodhan AI; Ashutosh Modi, IIT Kanpur#MSRI #ARS2026 Sunayana Sitaram – Bridging Divides in AI…
Session on Retrieval
Microsoft Research India Academic Research Summit 2026Speakers: Lokesh Nagalapatti, Soumen Chakrabarti#MSRI #ARS2026 HOBIT- Lokesh Nagalapatti, Microsoft A Dense Subset Index for Collective Query Coverage – Soumen Chakrabarti, IITB
Plenary Talk 2: Reimagining Education and Skilling for the Age of AI: Challenges & Opportunities
Microsoft Research India Academic Research Summit 2026Speakers: Manohar Swaminathan#MSRI #ARS2026 Manohar Swaminathan argues that AI creates a rare opportunity to rethink education and skilling rather than patch the existing system. The talk connects employability, learner…
Human-Centered AI: Design, Deployment & Healthcare
Speakers: Manik Gupta, BITS Hyderabad; Anirudha Joshi, IIT Bombay; Aaditeshwar Seth, IIT Delhi; Ashish Makhani, Ashoka University; Mohit Jain, Microsoft; Tavpritesh Sethi, IIIT Delhi #MSRI #ARS2026
Session on Reasoning
Microsoft Research India Academic Research Summit 2026Speakers: Hongxiang Fan, Imperial College London; Nagarajan Natarajan, Microsoft Research India#MSRI #ARS2026
Panel: Is Retrieval Relevant in the Age of Reasoning?
Microsoft Research India Academic Research Summit 2026 Speakers: Himanshu Tyagi, IISc Bangalore; Ravishankar Krishnaswamy, Microsoft; Mrinal Kanti Das, IIT Palakkad; Niket Tandon, Microsoft; Srikanta Bedathur, IIT Delhi; Arun Iyer, Microsoft; Somak Aditya, IIT KGP #MSRI…
Plenary Talk 3: Challenges and research opportunities for global hyperscale services
Microsoft Research India Academic Research Summit 2026Speakers: Jim Kleewein#msri #ARS2026 Jim Kleewein outlines the practical realities of building and operating global hyperscale services. The talk emphasizes scale, availability, and the research opportunities that emerge when…
Session on Compute & Trust (Security)
Microsoft Research India Academic Research Summit 2026Speakers: Krishna Pillutla, IIT Madras; Danish Pruthi, IIsc Bangalore#MSRI #ARS2026
Multimodal & Embodied Intelligence (S1), Panel on Multimodal AI: Progress, Pitfalls, Possibilities
Microsoft Research India Academic Research Summit 2026 Multimodal & Embodied Intelligence (Session 1) and Panel discussion on Multimodal AI: Progress, Pitfalls, and Possibilities Session: Multimodal & Embodied Intelligence and Panel discussionSpeakers: Madhava Krishna (IIIT Hyderabad),…
Session: Compute & Trust (Systems)
Microsoft Research India Academic Research Summit 2026Speakers: Aditya Desai, IITB; Pankaj Pansari, Plaksha University; Sanchari Sen, IISc; Abhilash Jindal, IITD#MSRI #ARS2026