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Career Opportunity

Cambridge Residency Program – Robotics

Posted: September 22, 2026

Location: Cambridge, UK

Research Area(s): Hardware and devices, Human-computer interaction

Launch your research career after your PhD at Microsoft Research Cambridge. Join a multidisciplinary team advancing robotics through ambitious research, real-world experimentation, and software–hardware co-design. At Microsoft Research, you will contribute to groundbreaking robotics projects…

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Do AI Agents Understand Computer Architecture?

Ambika Sharan, Grigory Chirkov, Soheil Abbasloo

September 2026

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Towards Standardized Evaluation of GPU Memory Safety with GMSBench

Saurabh Singh, Jaewon Lee, Seonjin Na, Hyesoon Kim Georgia Institute of Technology, Microsoft, Nvidia

September 2026

arXiv | September 2026

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Detokenization Leaks: Reconstructing Local LLM Outputs From Cache Traces

Roy Weiss, B. Konstantinov, Eitam Sheetrit, Tomer Simon, Yisroel Mirsky

September 2026

arXiv | September 2026

Career Opportunity

Senior Researcher – AI Systems – Microsoft Research

Posted: September 2, 2026

Location: Cambridge, UK

Research Area(s): Artificial intelligence, Computer vision, Hardware and devices, Systems and networking

At Microsoft Research Cambridge, we are shaping the future of AI infrastructure by tackling long-horizon research challenges that will define the next generation of computing systems, co-designed with the hardware they run on and with…

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MakoXC: Rearchitecting DFT Exchange-Correlation with Matrix-Aligned and Knowledge-Organized Sparsity

Haozhi Han, Fusong Ju, Jie Bai, Ruge Zhang, Xiang Zhao, Liang Yuan, Yunquan Zhang, Ting Cao, Yunxin Liu, Yifeng Chen, Kun Li

September 2026

arXiv | September 2026

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Continue or Replan? Bernoulli-Continuation Policy Learning for Adaptive Horizon Execution

Weichen Xu, Zhenhua Liu, Lin Luo, Yaobo Liang, Chengtang Yao, Qingyu Mei, Jian Cao, Xixin Cao, Xingyi Zhang, Jiaolong Yang, Baining Guo

August 2026

arXiv | August 2026

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Principled Design of Indexing Functions for Memory Coloring

Stephan Dübler, Jana Hofmann, Boris Köpf, Stavros Volos

USENIX Security Symposium | August 2026

Distinguished Artifact Award

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FM-VLA: Force-based Memory for Vision-Language-Action Models in Contact-Rich Manipulation

Ruicheng Li, Qixiu Li, Ruichun Ma, Yu Deng, Lin Luo, Zhiying Du, Jianfeng Xiang, Huizhi Liang, Ruicheng Wang, Jiaolong Yang, Baining Guo

July 2026

arXiv | July 2026

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Photonic Ising machines toward and beyond a million spins

A. Aadhi, Nayem Al-Kayed, Tristan Austin, Charles St-Arnault, Nir Rotenberg, Hitesh Ballani, D. Plant, Edwin Ng, Yoshihisa Yamamoto, P. McMahon, B. Shastri

July 2026

arXiv | July 2026