{"id":968280,"date":"2023-10-10T10:46:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T17:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-event&#038;p=968280"},"modified":"2024-02-14T11:28:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T19:28:39","slug":"neurips-2023","status":"publish","type":"msr-event","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/neurips-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"NeurIPS 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<p>Microsoft is a proud sponsor of the <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/neurips.cc\/Conferences\/2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> (NeurIPS). This interdisciplinary conference brings together researchers in machine learning, neuroscience, statistics, optimization, computer vision, natural language processing, life sciences, natural sciences, social sciences, and other adjacent fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are pleased to share Microsoft has over 100 accepted papers and 18 workshops at this year\u2019s conference. Stop by our booth near the entrance of hall D to talk to our team, learn more about research at Microsoft, and explore our open career positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a data-bi-type=\"button\" class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/msr-chat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Explore Microsoft research with our new beta chat experience<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:0; padding-top:0\" class=\"wp-block-msr-immersive-section alignfull row has-background has-blue-20-background-color has-text-color has-black-color wp-block-msr-immersive-section\">\n\t\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-msr-immersive-section__wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-vertical-margin-small  has-vertical-padding-none  has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"outstanding-paper-award\">Outstanding Paper Award<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Microsoft Research congratulates the DecodingTrust team on their outstanding benchmarks track paper award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"decodingtrust-a-comprehensive-assessment-of-trustworthiness-in-gpt-models\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/decodingtrust-a-comprehensive-assessment-of-trustworthiness-in-gpt-models\/\">DecodingTrust: A Comprehensive Assessment of Trustworthiness in GPT Models<\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Boxin Wang, Weixin Chen, Hengzhi Pei, Chulin Xie, Mintong Kang, Chenhui Zhang, Chejian Xu, Zidi Xiong, Ritik Dutta, Rylan Schaeffer, Sang T. Truong, Simran Arora, Mantas Mazeika, Dan Hendrycks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zinanlin\/\">Zinan Lin<\/a>, Yu Cheng, Sanmi Koyejo, Dawn Song, Bo Li<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"535\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/NeurIPS-23_OutstandingPaper_1200x627-1024x535.jpg\" alt=\"graphical user interface, text, application\" class=\"wp-image-992118 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/NeurIPS-23_OutstandingPaper_1200x627-1024x535.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/NeurIPS-23_OutstandingPaper_1200x627-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/NeurIPS-23_OutstandingPaper_1200x627-768x401.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/NeurIPS-23_OutstandingPaper_1200x627-240x125.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/NeurIPS-23_OutstandingPaper_1200x627.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>General Chair<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tristan\/\">Tristan Naumann<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Competition Chair<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/taoqin\/\">Tao Qin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ethics Review Chair<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lmackey\/\">Lester Mackey<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Communication Chair<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lualex\/\">Alex X Lu<\/a>, Irene Chen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Board Members<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tristan\/\">Tristan Naumann<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wallach\/\">Hanna Wallach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"microsoft-booth-schedule\">Microsoft booth schedule<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Stop by our&nbsp;booth&nbsp;(#1003) to chat with our experts, see demos of our latest research and find out about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/neurips-2023\/opportunities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">career opportunities<\/a>&nbsp;with Microsoft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th>Monday, December 11<\/th><th>Session title<\/th><th>Speaker<\/th><th>Session type<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>09:15 &#8211; 09:30<\/td><td>AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen AI Applications via Multi-Agent Conversation<\/td><td>Gagan Bansal, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond<br>Chi Wang, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond<\/td><td>Demo<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>09:30 &#8211; 10:00<\/td><td>Research Opportunities at Microsoft&#8217;s Office of Applied Research<\/td><td>Longqi Yang, E+D Office of Applied Research<\/td><td>Meet & Greet<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>11:00 &#8211; 12:00<\/td><td>AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen AI Applications via Multi-Agent Conversation<\/td><td>Gagan Bansal, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond<br>Chi Wang, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond<\/td><td>Demo<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>12:00 &#8211; 13:00<\/td><td>Recruitment Hour<\/td><td>Toni Brown-Bell, University Recruiter, GTA<\/td><td>Recruitment<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>14:00 &#8211; 14:30<\/td><td>Book Launch &#8211; Deep Learning: Foundations and Concepts<\/td><td>Chris Bishop, Director and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Research AI4Science<\/td><td>Talk<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>14:30 &#8211; 15:00<\/td><td>AI4Science Meet and Greet<\/td><td>AI4Science Team<\/td><td>Meet & Greet<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>15:00 &#8211; 15:30<\/td><td>AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen AI Applications via Multi-Agent Conversation<\/td><td>Gagan Bansal, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond<br>Chi Wang, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond<\/td><td>Demo<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>15:30 &#8211; 16:30<\/td><td>Research and Engineering Opportunities at MSR India<\/td><td>Manik Varma, Distinguished Scientist & VP, Microsoft Research India<\/td><td>Meet & Greet<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th>Tuesday, December 12<\/th><th>Session title<\/th><th>Speaker<\/th><th>Session type<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>09:00 &#8211; 09:30<\/td><td>Any-to-Any Generation via Composable Diffusion<\/td><td>Ziyi Yang, Principal Researcher, Azure AI<\/td><td>Talk & Demo<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>09:30 &#8211; 10:00<\/td><td>Deep Learning Group Meet and Greet<br><em>Now Hiring<\/em><\/td><td>Lucas Liu, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond<br>Roland Fernandez, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond<br>Hao Cheng, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond<\/td><td>Meet & Greet<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>10:00 &#8211; 10:30<\/td><td>Mechanistic theory & science of foundation models<\/td><td>Cyril Zhang, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research NYC\/NE<\/td><td>Meet & Greet<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>12:00 &#8211; 13:00<\/td><td>Recruitment Hour<\/td><td>Toni Brown-Bell, University Recruiter, GTA<br>Longqi Yang, Principal Applied Research Manager, Office of Applied Research<br>Jian Jiao, Principal Software Engineer Manager, Bing<\/td><td>Recruitment<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>13:30 &#8211; 14:00<\/td><td>MatterGen: a generative model for inorganic materials design<\/td><td>Tian Xie, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research AI4Science<br>Ryota Tomioka, Researcher Manager, Microsoft Research AI4Science<br>Robert Pinsler, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research AI4Science<\/td><td>Talk<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>14:00 &#8211; 14:30<\/td><td>Book Launch &#8211; Deep Learning: Foundations and Concepts<\/td><td>Chris Bishop, Director and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Research AI4Science<\/td><td>Talk<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>14:30 &#8211; 15:00<\/td><td>AI4Science Meet and Greet<\/td><td>AI4Science Team<\/td><td>Meet & Greet<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>15:15 &#8211; 16:15<\/td><td>Research and Engineering Opportunities at MSR India<\/td><td>Manik Varma, Distinguished Scientist & VP, Microsoft Research India<\/td><td>Meet & Greet<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>16:15 &#8211; 16:45<\/td><td>Timewarp: Transferable Acceleration of Molecular Dynamics by Learning Time-Coarsened Dynamics<\/td><td>Andrew Foong, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research AI4Science<\/td><td>Talk<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th>Wednesday, December 13<\/th><th>Session title<\/th><th>Speaker<\/th><th>Session type<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>09:15 &#8211; 10:00<\/td><td>VeLLM: Building population scale copilots<\/td><td>Akshay Nambi, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research India<\/td><td>Demo<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>09:15 &#8211; 10:00<\/td><td>pywhy-llm: Advancing causality with LLMs<\/td><td>Amit Sharma, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research India<\/td><td>Demo<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>10:30 &#8211; 11:00<\/td><td>Health Futures Meet & Greet<\/td><td>Alex Lu, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Health Futures<\/td><td>Meet & Greet<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>11:00 -12:00<\/td><td>Recruitment Hour<\/td><td>Toni Brown-Bell, University Recruiter, GTA<br>Wenhao Lu, Principal Applied Scientist, Bing<\/td><td>Recruitment<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>12:00 &#8211; 12:30<\/td><td>Meet & Greet &#8211; Resource Efficient Finetuning and Evaluation<\/td><td>Weiwei Yang, Director, Microsoft Research Redmond<\/td><td>Meet & Greet<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>12:30 &#8211; 13:00<\/td><td>Meet & Greet &#8211; ML, Data Science <\/td><td>Kate Lytvynets, Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft Research Redmond<\/td><td>Meet & Greet<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>13:00 &#8211; 13:30<\/td><td>Community Centered Innovation &#8211; Regenerative, Environmental and Social Justice perspective<\/td><td>Peeyush Kumar, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Redmond<\/td><td>Talk<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>13:30 &#8211; 14:00<\/td><td>HuggingGPT: Solving AI Tasks with ChatGPT and Its Friend in Hugging Face<\/td><td>Kaitao Song, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia<\/td><td>Talk<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>14:00 &#8211; 14:30<\/td><td>MSRA Shanghai Meet & Greet<\/td><td>MSRA Shanghai<\/td><td>Meet & Greet<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>14:30 &#8211; 15:00<\/td><td>AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen AI Applications via Multi-Agent Conversation<\/td><td>Gagan Bansal, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond<\/td><td>Demo<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>15:15 &#8211; 16:15<\/td><td>Research and Engineering Opportunities at MSR India<\/td><td>Manik Varma, Distinguished Scientist & VP, Microsoft Research India<\/td><td>Meet & Greet<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>16:30 &#8211; 17:15<\/td><td>Causality and LLMs<\/td><td>Robert Ness, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond<\/td><td>Talk<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>16:30 &#8211; 17:15<\/td><td>FABind: Fast and Accurate Protein-Ligand Binding<\/td><td>Tao Qin, Senior Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research AI4Science<\/td><td>Talk & Demo<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th>Thursday, December 14<\/th><th>Session title<\/th><th>Speaker(s)<\/th><th>Session type<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>09:15 &#8211; 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This interdisciplinary conference brings together researchers in machine learning, neuroscience, statistics, optimization, computer vision, natural language processing, life sciences, natural sciences, social sciences, and other adjacent fields.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We are pleased to share Microsoft has over 100 accepted papers and 18 workshops at this year\u2019s conference. Stop by our booth near the entrance of hall D to talk to our team, learn more about research at Microsoft, and explore our open career positions.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:buttons {\"layout\":{\"type\":\"flex\",\"justifyContent\":\"center\"}} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons\"><!-- wp:button {\"className\":\"is-style-fill\"} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/msr-chat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Explore Microsoft research with our new beta chat experience<\/a><\/div>\n<!-- \/wp:button --><\/div>\n<!-- \/wp:buttons -->\n\n<!-- wp:msr\/immersive-section {\"verticalPadding\":\"0\",\"backgroundColor\":\"blue-20\",\"textColor\":\"black\"} -->\n<!-- wp:media-text {\"mediaPosition\":\"right\",\"mediaId\":992118,\"mediaLink\":\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/neurips-2023\/neurips-23_outstandingpaper_1200x627\/\",\"mediaType\":\"image\",\"backgroundColor\":\"\"} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\"><!-- wp:heading {\"level\":4} -->\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"outstanding-paper-award\">Outstanding Paper Award<\/h4>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Microsoft Research congratulates the DecodingTrust team on their outstanding benchmarks track paper award.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":5} -->\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"decodingtrust-a-comprehensive-assessment-of-trustworthiness-in-gpt-models\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/decodingtrust-a-comprehensive-assessment-of-trustworthiness-in-gpt-models\/\">DecodingTrust: A Comprehensive Assessment of Trustworthiness in GPT Models<\/a><\/h5>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Boxin Wang, Weixin Chen, Hengzhi Pei, Chulin Xie, Mintong Kang, Chenhui Zhang, Chejian Xu, Zidi Xiong, Ritik Dutta, Rylan Schaeffer, Sang T. Truong, Simran Arora, Mantas Mazeika, Dan Hendrycks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zinanlin\/\">Zinan Lin<\/a>, Yu Cheng, Sanmi Koyejo, Dawn Song, Bo Li<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/NeurIPS-23_OutstandingPaper_1200x627-1024x535.jpg\" alt=\"graphical user interface, text, application\" class=\"wp-image-992118 size-full\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- \/wp:media-text -->\n<!-- \/wp:msr\/immersive-section -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>General Chair<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tristan\/\">Tristan Naumann<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Competition Chair<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/taoqin\/\">Tao Qin<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Ethics Review Chair<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lmackey\/\">Lester Mackey<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Communication Chair<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lualex\/\">Alex X Lu<\/a>, Irene Chen<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Board Members<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tristan\/\">Tristan Naumann<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wallach\/\">Hanna Wallach<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:spacer {\"height\":\"30px\"} -->\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<!-- \/wp:spacer -->\n<!-- \/wp:msr\/content-tab -->\n\n<!-- wp:msr\/content-tab {\"title\":\"Booth schedule\"} -->\n<!-- wp:heading -->\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"microsoft-booth-schedule\">Microsoft booth schedule<\/h2>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Stop by our&nbsp;booth&nbsp;(#1003) to chat with our experts, see demos of our latest research and find out about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/neurips-2023\/opportunities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">career opportunities<\/a>&nbsp;with Microsoft.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:table {\"hasFixedLayout\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th>Monday, December 11<\/th><th>Session title<\/th><th>Speaker<\/th><th>Session type<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>09:15 - 09:30<\/td><td>AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen AI Applications via Multi-Agent Conversation<\/td><td>Gagan Bansal, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond<br>Chi Wang, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond<\/td><td>Demo<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>09:30 - 10:00<\/td><td>Research Opportunities at Microsoft's Office of Applied Research<\/td><td>Longqi Yang, E+D Office of Applied Research<\/td><td>Meet &amp; 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VP, Microsoft Research India<\/td><td>Meet &amp; Greet<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:table -->\n\n<!-- wp:table {\"hasFixedLayout\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th>Tuesday, December 12<\/th><th>Session title<\/th><th>Speaker<\/th><th>Session type<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>09:00 - 09:30<\/td><td>Any-to-Any Generation via Composable Diffusion<\/td><td>Ziyi Yang, Principal Researcher, Azure AI<\/td><td>Talk &amp; Demo<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>09:30 - 10:00<\/td><td>Deep Learning Group Meet and Greet<br><em>Now Hiring<\/em><\/td><td>Lucas Liu, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond<br>Roland Fernandez, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond<br>Hao Cheng, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond<\/td><td>Meet &amp; Greet<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>10:00 - 10:30<\/td><td>Mechanistic theory &amp; science of foundation models<\/td><td>Cyril Zhang, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research NYC\/NE<\/td><td>Meet &amp; 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VP, Microsoft Research India<\/td><td>Meet &amp; Greet<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>16:15 - 16:45<\/td><td>Timewarp: Transferable Acceleration of Molecular Dynamics by Learning Time-Coarsened Dynamics<\/td><td>Andrew Foong, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research AI4Science<\/td><td>Talk<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:table -->\n\n<!-- wp:table {\"hasFixedLayout\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th>Wednesday, December 13<\/th><th>Session title<\/th><th>Speaker<\/th><th>Session type<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>09:15 - 10:00<\/td><td>VeLLM: Building population scale copilots<\/td><td>Akshay Nambi, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research India<\/td><td>Demo<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>09:15 - 10:00<\/td><td>pywhy-llm: Advancing causality with LLMs<\/td><td>Amit Sharma, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research India<\/td><td>Demo<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>10:30 - 11:00<\/td><td>Health Futures Meet &amp; Greet<\/td><td>Alex Lu, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Health Futures<\/td><td>Meet &amp; 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