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Systems & networking

Researching next-generation systems and networks that power reliable, scalable, and efficient computing.

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GridSFM: A new, small foundation model for the electric grid

Microsoft at NSDI 2026: Advances in large-scale networked systems

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Project Silica’s advances in glass storage technology

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Agent Lightning: Adding reinforcement learning to AI agents without code rewrites

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Capybara: Dynamic Load Balancing with Microsecond-Scale TCP Migration

Inho Choi, Nimish Wadekar, Guangda Sun, Raj Joshi, Joshua Fried, Omar S. Navarro Leija, Dan R. K. Ports, Irene Zhang, Jialin Li

SIGCOMM ’26 | August 2026

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Nebula: Proving Machine Executions via Folding Schemes

Arasu Arun, Srinath Setty

May 2026

IEEE | May 2026

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Flashlight: PyTorch Compiler Extensions to Accelerate Attention Variants

Bozhi You, Irene Wang, Z. Mustafaoglu, Abhinav Jangda, Angelica Moreira, Roshan Dathathri, Divya Mahajan, K. Pingali

9th MLSys Conference 2026 | May 2026

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CornerCase: Automated Extremal Testing of Protocol Implementations using LLMs

Rathin Singha, Kuan Qian, S. Saikrishnan, Tracy Zhao, Soheil Abbasloo, Ryan Beckett, Siva Kesava Reddy Kakarla, Todd D. Millstein, George Varghese

June 2026

arXiv | June 2026

Career Opportunity

Research Software Development Engineer-MSRI

Posted: July 2, 2026

Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Research Area(s): Artificial intelligence, Systems and networking, Technology for emerging markets

Microsoft Research India (MSR India) is a leading research lab advancing innovation across the research areas like Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Theory, Technology & Empowerment and Systems. We are seeking to hire research engineers at Microsoft…

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SlimeMold: Scaling Distributed Hardware Load Balancers via a Unified Giant Connection Table

Ziyuan Liu, Zhixiong Niu, Ran Shu, Jianqin Zhang, Guohong Lai, Liang Gao, Na Wang, Zongying He, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports, Lihua Yuan, Peng Cheng, Yongqiang Xiong

ACM SoCC 2026

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A Backward-Compatible Protocol Upgrade for HotNets

Paolo Costa, Michael Schapira

June 2026

arXiv | June 2026

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Session on Inclusive AI: Data, Models, Evaluation

June 26, 2026 | Niloy Ganguly, Danish Pruthi, Sunayana Sitaram, Anoop Kunchukuttan, Ashutosh Modi

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…

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Session on Reasoning

June 26, 2026 | Hongxiang Fan, Nagarajan Natarajan

Microsoft Research India Academic Research Summit 2026Speakers: Hongxiang Fan, Imperial College London; Nagarajan Natarajan, Microsoft Research India#MSRI #ARS2026

01:22:21

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Session on Compute & Trust (Security)

June 26, 2026 | Krishna Pillutla, Danish Pruthi

Microsoft Research India Academic Research Summit 2026Speakers: Krishna Pillutla, IIT Madras; Danish Pruthi, IIsc Bangalore#MSRI #ARS2026

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Systems & networking

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