About
Gagan Bansal (he/him) is researcher at Microsoft Research, Redmond where he conducts interdisciplinary research on Artificial Intelligence and Human-Computer Interaction. His research broadly focuses on enabling human-AI interactions that help augment human performance. At Microsoft Research, he is currently part of the Human-AI eXperiences Team (HAX), where he helps lead innovation on human-centered AI and responsible AI. Prior to joining MSR in 2022, he graduated with a Ph.D in Computer Science from University of Washington, Seattle where he was advised by Dan Weld and was a part of the UW Lab for Human-AI Interaction. Visit his homepage for a complete list of publications and projects.
At Microsoft, he has played key roles in multiple agentic projects and research including creation and maintenance of AutoGen, a widely used open-source framework for developing multi-agent applications, AutoGen Studio, a popular low-code interface for authoring multi-agent workflows, and advancing reliability and capabilities of AutoGen and agents for solving complex tasks.