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Speaker: Danqi Chen, Assistant Professor, Princeton University DensePhrases is an extractive phrase-search tool based on natural language input that achieves dense retrieval of billion-scale

Speaker: Jennifer Neville, Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond Data trails, recording the way that people interact with content and with each other in an enterprise, are a

Speaker: Longqi Yang, Senior Applied Research Scientist, Microsoft Shamsi Iqbal, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Jaime Teevan, Chief Scientist, Microsoft Research Our experience in the

Speakers: Jaime Teevan, Chief Scientist, Microsoft Denae Ford Robinson, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond Jenna Butler, Senior Applied Research Scientist, Microsoft Brian Houck

Speaker: Yaming Yang, RSDE2, Microsoft Research Asia To alleviate data sparsity and cold-start problems of traditional recommender systems (RSs), incorporating knowledge graphs (KGs) to supplement

Speaker: Stephen Voida, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder Learn more about the 2021 Microsoft Research Summit: Aka.ms/researchsummit

00:00 Tutorial: ElectionGuard: Enabling voters to verify election integrity Speaker: Josh Benaloh, Senior Principal Cryptographer, Microsoft Research Redmond This tutorial will describe

Speakers: Sean Rintel, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge Shiraz Cupala, Partner Group Manager, Microsoft Abigail Sellen, Deputy Director, Microsoft Research Cambridge John Tang

Moderator: Xilin Chen, Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences Speakers: Kyoung Mu Lee, Professor, Seoul National University Yi Ma, Professor, University of California, Berkeley Katsushi Ikeuchi

Speakers: Venkat Padmanabhan, Deputy Managing Director, Microsoft Research India Zhixiong Niu, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia Francis Y.

Moderator: Kristen Severson, Sr. Researcher, Microsoft Research New England Speakers: Ava Soleimany, Sr.

Speakers: Alec Wolman, Senior Principal Research Manager, Azure for Operators, Microsoft Lihua Yuan, Partner Software Engineering Manager, Microsoft Azure Daniel Firestone, Engineering Director

Moderator: Emre Kiciman, Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond Panelists: Amit Sharma, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research India Dean Eckles, Associate Professor, Massachusetts

Speakers: Ed Doran, Senior Director, Microsoft Research  Redmond Nancy Baym, Senior Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research  New England Jonathan Larson, Principal Data Architect, Microsoft

Speakers: Aaron Halfaker, Principal Applied Research Scientist, Microsoft Experiences and Devices Charles Isbell, John P. Imlay Jr.

Speakers: Margaret-Anne Storey, Professor, University of Victoria Bryan Liles, Principal Engineer, VMware Amanda Silver, CVP of Product, Microsoft Developer Division Nicole Forsgren, Partner

00:00 Introduction Speaker: Mike Bassani, GM of Supply Chain, Azure Global Commercial Industry The consumer goods industry has been disrupted by personalization of retail, automation of the supply

Speakers: Bill Borden, CVP, Microsoft Worldwide Financial Services Nick Lewins, FSI Lead, Microsoft Research Redmond Florian Kerschbaum, Professor, University of Waterloo Cedric Membrez, Scientist

Speakers: Geoff Gordon, Partner Researcher, Microsoft Research Montreal Emma Brunskill, Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Stanford University Craig Boutilier, Principal Scientist

Speakers: Greg Lewis, Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond Ya Xu, Head of Data, LinkedIn Totte Harinen, Data Scientist, Toyota Research Institute Dawen Liang, Senior Research

Moderator: Mary Gray, Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research New England Speakers: Ben Ale-Ebrahim, PhD Candidate, Indiana University Calvin Liang, PhD Candidate & Microsoft Research

Moderator: Adith Swaminathan, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond Speakers: Javier González Hernández, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge Justin Ding, Principal

Speakers: Jitendra (Jitu) Padhye, Partner Development Lead, Microsoft Erica Lan, Corporate Vice President, Azure Core Engineering, Microsoft Sylvia Ratnasamy, Professor, University of California

Moderator: Eric Horvitz, Chief Scientific Officer, Microsoft Panelists: Nitin Agrawal, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Soumen Chakrabati, Professor, IIT Bombay Susan Dumais, Technical Fellow &

00:00 Carbon capture and storage Speakers: Sverre Brandsberg Dahl, Partner, Microsoft Azure Felix J.

Speakers: Juan Lavista Ferres, Chief Scientist and Lab Director, Microsoft Research Mingqi Wu, Principal Data Scientist, Gaming at Microsoft Sonia Jaffe, Senior Research Economist, Microsoft

Moderator: Denae Ford Robinson, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond Panelists: Margaret Price, Principal Design Strategist, Microsoft EDU Bobby Dresser, Director of Product, GitHub Mala

Speakers: Mingfei Sun, Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge Roberta Raileanu, PhD Student, NYU Wendelin Böhmer, Assistant Professor, Delft University of Technology Harm van Seijen, Principal

Speakers: Eric Horvitz, Chief Scientific Officer, Microsoft Miles Brundage, Head of Policy Research, OpenAI Yejin Choi, Professor, University of Washington AI2 Percy Liang, Associate Professor

Moderator: Qingwei Lin, Sr.