December 10, 2024 –
December 15, 2024
Microsoft at NeurIPS 2024
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Microsoft booth schedule
Stop by our booth to chat with our experts, see demos of our latest research and find out about career opportunities with Microsoft.
| Tuesday, December 10 | Session title | Speaker | Session type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 – 13:00 | WHAM: World and Human Action Model | Sam Devlin, Sergio Valcarcel Macua, Sarah Parisot, Linda Wen, Microsoft Research Redmond | Demo |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Coffee and AI Frontiers Hiring with John Langford | John Langford, Microsoft Research NYC/NE | Meet & Greet |
| 13:00 – 15:30 | Recruitment Hour | Toni Brown-Bell, University Recruiter, GTA Cammy Vasquez, Shiloah Vasquez | Recruitment |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Coffee and Applied Research hiring | Longqi Yang, E+D Office of Applied Research | Meet & Greet |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | MAIRA-2: Grounded Radiology Reporting | Shruthi Bannur, Kenza Bouzid Microsoft Health Futures | Talk |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Radfact: An LLM-based evaluation metric for AI generated Radiology Reporting | Stephanie Hyland, Daniel Coelho de Castro Microsoft Health Futures | Talk |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | AutoGen team AI Frontiers | Demo | |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | AutoGen team AI Frontiers | Demo | |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Empowering Scientific Innovation with the Science Foundation Model | Yingce Xia, Tao Qin AI for Science | Talk |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Coffee with the AI for Science team | AI for Science | Coffee Chat |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Peeyush Kumar, AI Interaction and Learning Microsoft Research Redmond | Meet & Greet |
| Wednesday, December 11 | Session title | Speaker | Session type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee and AI Frontiers Hiring with John Langford | John Langford | Meet & Greet |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | AutoGen team AI Frontiers | Demo | |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | AutoGen team AI Frontiers | Demo | |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | WHAM: World and Human Action Model | Sam Devlin, Sergio Valcarcel Macua, Sarah Parisot, Linda Wen Microsoft Research Redmond | Demo |
| 13:00 – 13:30 | TBD | MAIDAP | Info session |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Research Opportunities at Microsoft’s Office of Applied Research | Longqi Yang E+D Office of Applied Research | Meet & Greet |
| 14:00 – 16:00 | Recruitment Hour | Toni Brown-Bell, University Recruiter, GTA Cammy Vasquez, Shiloah Vasquez | Recruitment |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Leveraging Dynamic Sparsity in (Long-context) LLMs | Huiqiang Jiang Microsoft Research Asia | Talk |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Phi Silica with Quarot for Outlier-Free 4-bit inference | Pashmina Cameron, Maximilian Croci Windows ASG, MSR/MAI | Talk |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Phi Silica Multi Modal | Mohsen Fayyaz ASG | Demo |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Windows Agent Arena: Evaluating Multi-Modal OS Agents at Scale | Rogerio Bonatti Windows ASG | Talk |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Segmentation-aware Multimodal LLM for radiology | Valentina Salvatelli Microsoft Health Futures | Talk |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Coffee with the AI for Science team | AI For Science | Coffee Chat |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Accurate retrosynthesis prediction with Chimera | Krzysztof Maziarz AI For Science | Talk |
| Thursday, December 12 | Session title | Speaker | Session type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:30 – 14:30 | Recruitment Hour | Toni Brown-Bell, University Recruiter, GTA Cammy Vasquez, Shiloah Vasquez | Recruitment |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Pyramid Vector Quantization for LLMs | Maximilian Croci, Tycho van der Ouderaa MSR/MAI | Talk |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | EUREKA: Evaluating and Understanding Large Foundation Models | Besmira Nushi, Vidhisha Balachandran, Neel Joshi AI Frontiers | Demo |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | EUREKA: Evaluating and Understanding Large Foundation Models | Besmira Nushi, Vidhisha Balachandran, Neel Joshi AI Frontiers | Demo |
| AI For Science | |||
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Generative AI for science discovery | Tao Qin and Yingce Xia AI For Science | Talk |
| 13:00 – 13:30 | Podcast – TBD | ||
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Podcast – TBD | ||
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Podcast – TBD | ||
| 14:30 – 15:00 | OmniParser | Demo | |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | AutoGen team AI Frontiers | Demo | |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee with the AutoGen team | AutoGen team AI Frontiers | Coffee Chat |