July 6, 2026 –
July 11, 2026
Microsoft at ICML 2026
Korean Standard Time (UTC +9)
Location: Seoul, Korea
Booth schedule
| Date | Time | Session type | Session title | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, July 7 | 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM | Talk | World-R1:Reinforcing 3D Constraints for Text-to-Video Generation | Yifan Yang, Senior Research SDE, Microsoft Research Asia |
| 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Talk | World Modeling for Embodied AI | Kaixin Wang, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia | |
| 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM | Q&A | Meet the MAI Team | Kyle Lo, Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft AI | |
| 12:30 PM – 1:00 PM | Q&A | Explore Opportunities at Microsoft Research India | Manik Varma, Bishal Santra, Gaurav Sinha, Lokesh N, Yashoteja Prabhu, Microsoft Research India | |
| 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM | Talk | Rule-Based Validity in AI Reasoning | Rachel Lawrence, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge | |
| 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM | Demo | MagenticLite | Yash Lara, Microsoft Research AI Frontiers | |
| 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Talk | Froggy Team (Coding Agent) | Minseon Kim, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Montreal | |
| 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Talk | AIOps | Grace Gong, Service Engineering, C+AI | |
| 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM | Q&A | Meet the AI Frontiers Team | Yash Lara, Microsoft Research AI Frontiers | |
| 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM | Q&A | Meet the AIFX Team | Walid Krichene, AIFX | |
| 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM | Q&A | Meet the MAI Team | Young Jin Kim, Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft AI | |
| 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM | Talk | The Quality-Utility Paradox | Xianliang Yang, Applied Scientist, Microsoft Research Asia | |
| Wednesday, July 8 | 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM | Demo | MagenticLite | Yash Lara, Microsoft Research AI Frontiers |
| 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Q&A | Meet the Code|AI Team | Gaurav Mittal, Principal Researcher, Code|AI, Microsoft Core AI | |
| 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM | Q&A | Meet the team working on World-Action-Models at Microsoft Research | Lukas Schäfer, Postdoc, Microsoft Research Cambridge; Pallavi Choudhury, Principal Research Engineer, Microsoft Research Americas; Sergio Valcarcel Macua, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge; Chengzu Li, Research Intern, Microsoft Research Cambridge | |
| 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Demo | Global AI Values Challenge | Xiaoyuan Yi, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia | |
| 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM | Q&A | Meet the MAI Team | Brian Axelrod, Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft AI | |
| 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM | Talk | MoLoRA: Composable Specialization via Per-Token Adapter Routing | Shrey Shah, Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft AI | |
| 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Talk | Evaluating Next Action Prediction Systems | Tejas Agrawal, Research Fellow, PROSE | |
| 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Q&A | Explore Opportunities at Microsoft Research India | Manik Varma, Bishal Santra, Gaurav Sinha, Lokesh N, Yashoteja Prabhu, Microsoft Research India | |
| 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM | Q&A | Meet the AI Frontiers Team | Tim Pearce, Microsoft Research AI Frontiers NYC | |
| 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM | Q&A | Meet the MAI Team | Shrey Shah, Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft AI | |
| 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM | Q&A | Meet the AI for Science Team | Claudio Zeni, Senior Researcher, Krzysztof Maziarz, Principal Researcher, AI for Science | |
| Thursday, July 9 | 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM | Demo | MagenticLite | Yash Lara, Microsoft Research AI Frontiers |
| 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Q&A | Explore Opportunities at Microsoft Research India | Manik Varma, Bishal Santra, Gaurav Sinha, Lokesh N, Yashoteja Prabhu, Microsoft Research India | |
| 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Q&A | Meet the Code|AI Team | Gaurav Mittal, Principal Researcher, Code|AI, Microsoft Core AI | |
| 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM | Q&A | Meet the MAI Team | Lijuan Wang, Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft AI | |
| 12:30 PM – 1:00 PM | Q&A | Meet the AI Red Team | Eugenia Kim, AI Safety Researcher, Microsoft AI Red Team Research | |
| 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM | Talk | Skillopt: Training Agent Skills From Diagnosis to Optimization | Yifan Yang, Senior Research SDE, Microsoft Research Asia | |
| 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Q&A | Meet the AI for Science Team | Yu Xie, Senior Researcher, Krzysztof Maziarz, Principal Researcher, Claudio Zeni, Senior Researcher, AI for Science | |
| 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM | Q&A | Meet the AI Frontiers Team | Microsoft Research AI Frontiers | |
| 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM | Q&A | Meet the MAI Team |