Research for Industry
Unlocking new opportunities
People
Our group spans Microsoft Research and Azure Commercial Industry teams, and is made up of scientists, industry experts, engineers, architects, and program managers—and an amazing group of interns!
Core team
Ranveer Chandra
Managing Director, Research for Industry
B. Ashok
Senior Director of Applied Sciences and Engineering
Jiang Bian
Senior Principal Research Manager
Riyaz Pishori
Principal Research PM
Emre Kiciman
Senior Principal Research Manager
Leonardo Nunes
Principal Research SDE
Ram Nagaraja
Principal Program Manager
Alex Crown
Research Software Development Engineer
Bruno Silva
Angels de Luis Balaguer
Senior Research Software Engineer
Peeyush Kumar
Senior Research Scientist
Philipp Witte
Researcher
Rafael Padilha
Research Software Engineer
Renato Luiz de Freitas Cunha
Principal Research Software Development Engineer
Roberto Estevão
Research Software Development Engineer II
Sara Malvar
Senior Research Software Development Engineer
Suraj Jog
Senior Researcher
Swati Sharma
Senior Researcher – Azure for Industry
Tusher Chakraborty
Senior Researcher in M365 Copilot
Vaishnavi Ranganathan
Senior Researcher
Collaborators
Olaoluwa Adigun
Intern
University of Southern California
Jemimah Ayoma
Vendor
Anvita Bhagavathula
Intern
Brown University
Naga Bilwanth Gangarapu
Vendor
Christopher Cross
Intern
Stanford University
Eashan Gupta
Intern
University of Illinois
Vikram Iyer
Assistant Professor
University of Washington
Upinder Kaur
Intern
Purdue University
Sajad Khodadadian
Intern
Georgia Institute of Technology
Ming Min
Intern
MIT
Duncan Otieno Okwako
Vendor
Sayed Saad Afzal
Intern
MIT
Kumar Saurabh
Intern
Iowa State University
Somya Sharma
Intern
University of Minnesota
Heping Shi
Vendor
Anna-Marie Silvester
Software Engineering Manager
Kowshik Thopalli
Intern
Arizona State University
Qiuyue (Shirley) Xue
Intern
University of Washington
Boling Yang
Intern
University of Washington