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In the news | AI Ireland
E204 ‘Multilingual Innovation and AI’ with Microsoft’s Kalika Bali
Today’s guest is Kalika Bali, Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research India. In the episode, Kalika talks about her intriguing journey and impactful work, as well as peeling back the layers of how accidental moments can shape careers and how…
In the news | CNBC
How Microsoft, Physics Wallah are bringing AI-driven learning to Indian classrooms
As part of its broader $3 billion AI and cloud investment in India, Microsoft is deepening its focus on education through a collaboration with edtech company Physics Wallah, aimed at improving learning outcomes using AI-powered tools and personalised academic support.
Research Focus: Week of May 7, 2025
In this issue: New research on compound AI systems and causal verification of the Confidential Consortium Framework; release of Phi-4-reasoning; enriching tabular data with semantic structure, and more.
Research Focus: Week of April 21, 2025
In this issue: our CHI 2025 & ICLR 2025 contributions, plus research on causal reasoning & LLMs; countering LLM jailbreak attacks; and how people use AI vs. AI-alone. Also, SVP of Microsoft Health Jim Weinstein talks rural healthcare innovation.
LLMs for safe low-level programming
Aseem Rastogi and Pantazis Deligiannis talk about two technical results from ICSE 2025 on using large language models (LLMs) for safe low-level programming. The results demonstrate LLMs inferring machine-checkable memory safety invariants in legacy C code and how LLMs assist…
Microsoft Research and Physics Wallah team up to enhance AI-based tutoring
| Chris Stetkiewicz
Limited resources, geography, and economic factors present barriers to quality education for many students in India. Learn how Microsoft Research is collaborating with Physics Wallah to make AI-based tutoring more accurate, reliable, and affordable.
Over the past two decades, Microsoft Research India has achieved an extraordinary record of innovation—in areas ranging from health and education to agriculture and accessibility.
Ideas: Building AI for population-scale systems with Akshay Nambi
| Chris Stetkiewicz and Akshay Nambi
Advances in AI are driving meaningful real-world impact. Principal Researcher Akshay Nambi shares how his passion for tackling real-world challenges across various domains fuels his work in building reliable and robust AI systems.
In the news | Microsoft Source Asia
Chasing peak sugar: India’s sugar cane farmers use AI to predict weather, fight pests and optimize harvests
The technology brings in weather, soil and other data from satellites as well as farm sensors onto a Microsoft data platform called Azure Data Manager for Agriculture (previously called FarmBeats), so farmers can see precisely what’s happening at their farm…