Security, privacy, and cryptography
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Fuzzy Extractors are Practical
Despite decades of effort, a chasm existed between the theory and practice of device-level biometric authentication. Deployed authentication algorithms rely on data that overtly leaks private information about the biometric; thus, systems rely on externalized…
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Senior Researcher – Security – Microsoft Research
The Security Research Group at Microsoft Research Redmond is pushing the boundaries of data‑driven security. In this role as a Senior Researcher – Security, you will work alongside leading researchers and engineers to design and…
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Research Intern – Office of the Chief Scientific Officer
The Office of the Chief Scientific Officer works with senior leadership at Microsoft on strategy and opportunities at the frontiers of science, engineering, and responsible artificial intelligence (AI). The office collaborates closely with teams across…
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Microsoft Research India 2025 Highlights
Here are some highlights of the research and impact at Microsoft Research India in 2025, along with some glimpses of the lab milieu.
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Publicly-verifiable elections
Microsoft’s free, open-source ElectionGuard tools enable voters to verify their votes were accurately counted without compromising privacy or trusting election equipment or personnel. New research eliminates the need for cryptographic keys, making the process far…
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Reducing Privacy leaks in AI: Two approaches to contextual integrity
New research explores two ways to give AI agents stronger privacy safeguards grounded in contextual integrity. One adds lightweight, inference-time checks; the other builds contextual awareness directly into models through reasoning and RL.
