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Storycaster: An AI System for Immersive Room-Based Storytelling

Naisha Agarwal, Judith Amores, Andrew D. Wilson

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026) | April 2026

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Evaluating AI-Generated Images of Cultural Artifacts with Community-Informed Rubrics

Nari Johnson, Deepthi Sudharsan, Hamna, Samantha Dalal, Theo Holroyd, Anja Thieme, Hoda Heidari, Daniela Massiceti, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Cecily Morrison

April 2026

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Generative Video Compression with One-Dimensional Latent Representation

Zihan Zheng, Zhaoyang Jia, Naifu Xue, Jiahao Li, Bin Li, Zongyu Guo, Xiaoyi Zhang, Zhenghao Chen, Houqiang Li, Yan Lu

March 2026

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Multi-Object Advertisement Creative Generation

Jialu Gao, Mithun Gupta, Qun Li, Raveena Kshatriya, Andrew D. Wilson, Keng-hao Chang, Balasaravanan Thoravi Kumaravel

March 2026

Career Opportunity

Member of Technical Staff, Principal Tech Lead Manager, Image Generation

Posted: March 12, 2026

Location: Redmond, WA, US

Research Area(s): Artificial intelligence, Computer vision, Graphics and multimedia

We are hiring a Principal Tech Lead Manager to own and grow Copilot’s image generation capabilities. You will set the technical direction for image generation, lead a team of Applied AI engineers and platform engineers,…

Career Opportunity

Member of Technical Staff, Senior Applied AI Engineer, Image Generation

Posted: March 12, 2026

Location: Redmond, WA, US

Research Area(s): Artificial intelligence, Computer vision, Graphics and multimedia

We’re hiring a Senior Applied AI Engineer, Image Generation to join a fast‑moving, high‑ownership team building next‑generation AI assistant and productivity capabilities. This role blends LLM product engineering, evaluation science, hillclimbing, and internal tool building…

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InfoAlign: A Human-AI Co-Creation System for Storytelling with Infographics

Jielin Feng, Xinwu Ye, Qianhui Li, Verena Prantl, Jun-Hsiang Yao, Yuheng Zhao, Yun Wang, Siming Chen

CHI 2026 | February 2026

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FilMaster: Bridging Cinematic Principles and Generative AI for Automated Film Generation

Kaiyi Huang, Yukun Huang, Xintao Wang, Zinan Lin, Xuefei Ning, Pengfei Wan, Di Zhang, Yu Wang, Xihui Liu

ICLR 2026 | February 2026

Publication

Long Video Understanding with Learnable Retrieval in Video-Language Models

Jiaqi Xu, Cuiling Lan, Wenxuan Xie, Xuejin Chen, Yan Lu

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia | February 2026

Career Opportunity

Research Intern – Interactive Multimodal Futures Group (Situated & Affective Computing)

Posted: December 2, 2025

Location: Cambridge, MA, US; Redmond, WA, US

Research Area(s): Artificial intelligence, Audio and Acoustics, Computer vision, Data platforms and analytics, Graphics and multimedia, Human-computer interaction

The Interactive Multimodal Futures (IMF) group at Microsoft Research seeks a PhD-level Research Intern to work on a project at the intersection of situated interaction, affective computing, and human-centered AI systems. The project will include…