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Research Focus: Week of October 9, 2023
Research Focus: Principal researcher Lester Mackey recognized for pioneering statistical and ML techniques; Pareto frontiers in neural feature learning; structural inequality in the influencer industry; new research on cardinality estimation.
Awards | MacArthur Foundation
Lester Mackey, 2023 MacArthur Fellow
Microsoft Research congratulates computer scientist and statistician Lester Mackey on his selection as a 2023 MacArthur Fellow.
In the news | TechCrunch
Microsoft open sources EvoDiff, a novel protein-generating AI
This week, Microsoft introduced a general-purpose framework, EvoDiff, that the company claims can generate “high-fidelity,” “diverse” proteins given a protein sequence. Different from other protein-generating frameworks, EvoDiff doesn’t require any structural information about the target protein, cutting out what’s typically…
Awards | Bernoulli Society
Lester Mackey awarded Ethel Newbold Prize 2023
Lester Mackey (Stanford University and Microsoft Research New England) has become the fifth Ethel Newbold Prize Winner. The Ethel Newbold Prize is awarded biennially to an outstanding statistical scientist in early or mid-career for a body of work that represents…
In the news | Quanta Magazine
The Cryptographer Who Ensures We Can Trust Our Computers
Yael Tauman Kalai is a pioneering theoretical computer scientist who’s won impressive awards and changed the way people think about the internet. But as a kid, she wasn’t exactly a model student.
In the news | Nature
AI tools are designing entirely new proteins that could transform medicine
Digital art techniques can now devise custom, working biomolecules on demand. Read about recent advances in protein design, including MSR’s research into protein structure generation via folding diffusion.
Improving Subseasonal Forecasting with Machine Learning
| Lester Mackey, Soukayna Mouatadid, Genevieve Flaspohler, and Judah Cohen
This content was previously published by Nature Portfolio and Springer Nature Communities (opens in new tab) on Nature Portfolio Earth and Environment Community (opens in new tab). Improving our ability to forecast the weather and climate is of interest to all…
Highlights from CHI 2023
The ways in which people are able to interact with technologies can have a profound effect on a technology’s utility and adoptability. Building computing tools and services around people’s natural styles of work, communication, and play can give technology the…
Research Focus: Week of May 8, 2023
In this issue: Microsoft researchers win four more awards; AutoRXN automates calculations of molecular systems; LLM accelerator losslessly improves the efficiency of autoregressive decoding; a frequency domain approach to predict power system transients.