The Research Intern will conduct empirical research on how human oversight shapes the economic return of AI-assisted work. This includes designing controlled experiments, developing session-level evaluation frameworks that link inference cost to output quality and…
Small foundation models for the electric grid GridFM is a Microsoft Research initiative to build a foundation model (FM) for electric power grids, applying modern AI methods—similar to large language/weather models—to complex grid physics. Traditional…
The Microsoft Research Computational Social Science (CSS) group is widely recognized as a leading center of computational social science research, lying at the intersection of computer science, statistics, and the social sciences. We have been…
Science + Innovation for Next-Gen Productivity IDEAS Research is the applied science team in IDEAS, the central data organization in Microsoft’s productivity division. Our mission is to advance the frontier of human productivity in the…
The Economics and Computation group has multiple Research Intern positions for the summer of 2026. Research areas include market design, the economics of Artificial Intelligence (AI), economics and computation, social learning, applied microeconomics, microeconomic theory,…
Magentic Marketplace is an open-source simulation environment for exploring the numerous possibilities of agentic markets and their societal implications at scale. It provides a foundation for studying these markets and guiding them toward outcomes that benefit everyone.
Recently, we released a paper Working with AI: Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI that studied what occupations might find AI chatbots useful, and to what degree. The paper sparked significant discussion, which is no surprise since people care deeply about the future of AI and jobs–that’s part…
