News and Awards

Long-term data storage enters a new epoch. What will remain of the human race? We don’t know how long our species will survive, and even if we can hold on for thousands more tears it…

This badge denotes that the recipient was on a winning team recognized by an Executive Challenge team in the Microsoft Global Hackathon 2022. Hackathon Executive Challenges are sponsored by Microsoft leaders in strategic business areas.…

Desney Tan, along with fellow authors, Adiyan Mujibiya, Xiang Cao, Dan Morris, Shwetak N. Patel, Jun Rekimoto, received the 10-Year Impact Award from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Interactive Surfaces and Spaces Conference (ISS 2022)…

Microsoft’s leading researcher in the application of technologies in the field, Ranveer Chandra, tells how the company works to help create the future of agriculture.

Chicago’s air quality is among the worst in the U.S., and there are several local hotspots for particulate matter 2.5 — the tiny particles that come from diesel trucks and industry and enter people’s lungs…

Allison Koenecke (opens in new tab) who was previously a postdoctoral researcher in the Microsoft Research New England lab was recognized as Forbes 30 under 30 2023 (opens in new tab) in the Science category.…

We are open sourcing PDEArena, a modern, scalable, and easy to use PDE surrogate benchmarking framework. PDEArena is designed to train and evaluate neural surrogates for partial differential equations (PDE) at scale. As such, PDEArena…

Yujing Wang, Ziming Miao, Qi Chen, Yuqing Xia, Xing Xie, Mao Yang, and Zheng Liu researchers from Microsoft Research Asia lab along with co-authors Yujing Wang, Yingyan Hou, Haonan Wang, Ziming Miao, Shibin Wu, Hao…

Lester Mackey, Principal Researcher from Microsoft Research New England Lab along with his co-authors Jiaxin Shi, Yuhao Zhou, Jessica Hwang, and Michalis Titsias, received the Outstanding Paper award for their paper Gradient Estimation with Discrete…