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Venues:<\/strong> Microsoft Research Asia<\/a><\/p>\n

Contact us: <\/strong>If you have any questions about this event, please send an email to the Program Chair Lily Sun<\/a>, Research Program Manager at lisu@microsoft.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Venues: Microsoft Research Asia Contact us: If you have any questions about this event, please send an email to the Program Chair Lily Sun, Research Program Manager at lisu@microsoft.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":423627,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"msr_startdate":"2017-09-18","msr_enddate":"2017-09-20","msr_location":"Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing","msr_expirationdate":"","msr_event_recording_link":"","msr_event_link":"","msr_event_link_redirect":false,"msr_event_time":"","msr_hide_region":false,"msr_private_event":false,"footnotes":""},"research-area":[],"msr-region":[197903],"msr-event-type":[197944],"msr-video-type":[],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-program-audience":[],"msr-post-option":[],"msr-impact-theme":[],"class_list":["post-423609","msr-event","type-msr-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","msr-region-asia-pacific","msr-event-type-hosted-by-microsoft","msr-locale-en_us"],"msr_about":"Venues:<\/strong> Microsoft Research Asia<\/a>\r\n\r\nContact us: <\/strong>If you have any questions about this event, please send an email to the Program Chair Lily Sun<\/a>, Research Program Manager at lisu@microsoft.com<\/a>","tab-content":[{"id":0,"name":"About","content":"

Welcome to Microsoft Research Asia Ph.D. Forum 2017. This forum is organized by Microsoft Research Asia to provide a platform for the outstanding Ph.D. students to exchange insights, gain exposure and learn from each other.<\/p>\r\n

Over the years, Microsoft Research Asia has been proactively collaborating with the academic community on young research talents fostering, and has anointed nearly four hundred top researchers with the coveted honor of \u201cMicrosoft Research Ph.D. Fellow.\u201d The forum offers Fellows as well as other invited outstanding Ph.D. students only opportunities to learn the latest research achievements from Microsoft Research Asia, but also to explore opportunities with great potential in the near future.<\/p>\r\n

The forum consists of keynotes, research talks, fireside chat, and technology showcases. Specially, as future leaders, the young Ph.D. students will be invited to share their perception and insights on the societal impacts of AI.<\/p>"},{"id":1,"name":"Agenda","content":"

September 18 (Monday)<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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18:30 \u2013 20:00<\/div><\/td>\r\n
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Welcome Reception<\/div><\/td>\r\n
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September 19 (Tuesday)<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Time (PDT)<\/th>\r\nSession<\/th>\r\nSpeaker<\/th>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/thead>\r\n
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9:30 \u2013 10:30<\/div><\/td>\r\n
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Face to Face with Andy<\/div><\/td>\r\n
Speaker: Andrew Yao\r\nChair: Baining Guo<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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10:30 \u2013 11:00<\/div><\/td>\r\n
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Group Photo & Break<\/div><\/td>\r\n
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11:00 \u2013 11:45<\/div><\/td>\r\n
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Research Talks on Media, CV, and Graphics<\/div><\/td>\r\n
Chair: Ting Zhang\r\nSpeakers: Tao Mei, Jing Liao, Yizhong Zhang<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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11:45 \u2013 13:30<\/div><\/td>\r\n
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Poster Session<\/div><\/td>\r\n
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13:30 \u2013 14:15<\/div><\/td>\r\n
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Research Talks on Human and Machine Intelligence<\/div><\/td>\r\n
Chair: Yingce Xia\r\nSpeakers: Jun Yan, Tao Qin, Xing Xie<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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14:15 \u2013 15:00<\/div><\/td>\r\n
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Research Talks on Systems, Software and HCI<\/div><\/td>\r\n
Chair: Wei Bai\r\nSpeakers: Justin Ding, Fan Yang, Koji Yatani<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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15:00 \u2013 15:30<\/div><\/td>\r\n
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Break<\/div><\/td>\r\n
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15:30 \u2013 16:30<\/div><\/td>\r\n
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Fireside Chat on Career Development<\/div><\/td>\r\n
Chair: Tim Pan\r\nHonored guests: Koji Yatani, Ying Yan<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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16:30 \u2013 17:30<\/div><\/td>\r\n
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Societal Impacts of AI<\/div><\/td>\r\n
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18:30 \u2013 20:00<\/div><\/td>\r\n
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Dinner<\/div><\/td>\r\n
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A series of features have been shipped to the product of Microsoft PowerBI since 2015, including Quick-Insights, Scoped-Insights, Summary-Insights, Why-Analysis, etc., which facilities automated data analysis with real time experience.\r\n\r\nDuring his early years in MSRA (2010 ~ 2014), he mainly focused on data mining for large-scale software systems.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n\r\n[panel header=\"Jing Liao, Microsoft Research Asia\"]\r\n\r\nJing<\/a> is currently a researcher in Visual Computing Group at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA). Before she joined MSRA in Dec. 2015, she received her dual Ph.D. degrees from Zhejiang University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, under the supervision of Prof. Jinhui Yu and Prof. Pedro V. Sander.\r\n\r\nHer research interests include image and video processing, computational photography, non-photo-realistic rendering.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n\r\n[panel header=\"Tao Mei, Microsoft Research Asia\"]\r\n\r\nTao Mei<\/a> is a Senior Researcher with Microsoft Research Asia. His current research interests include multimedia analysis and understanding, computer vision, and machine learning. He is leading a team working on image and video analysis, vision and language, and multimedia search. Tao has shipped a dozen inventions and technologies to Microsoft products, such as Windows Photo, Bing, Office, Azure, OneDrive, Cognitive Services, Chat Bot, Cognitive Services, etc. He has authored or co-authored over 100 papers (with an h-index of 43) in journals and conferences, 10 book chapters, and edited four books. He holds over 40 US and international patents (with 18 granted).\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n\r\n[panel header=\"Tim Pan, Microsoft Research Asia\"]\r\n\r\nDr. Tim Pan is Director of Microsoft Research Connections at Microsoft Research Asia, responsible for the lab\u2019s academic collaboration in the Asia-Pacific region.\r\n\r\nTim Pan earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis. He had 20 years of experience in the computer industry and co-founded two technology companies in smart card IC and large banking systems. Tim joined MSRA in 2005-2007 and rejoined in 2012.\r\n\r\nTim has great passion for talent-fostering. He served as a board member of St. John\u2019s University (Taiwan) for 10 years, offered courses and gave lectures in high-tech venture and various CS-related subjects and wrote a best-selling textbook in information security. Tim is a CISSP and holds several other industrial licenses.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n\r\n[panel header=\"Tao Qin, Microsoft Research Asia\"]\r\n\r\nDr. Tao Qin<\/a> is currently a Lead Researcher in Microsoft Research Asia. His research interests include machine learning (with the focus on deep learning and reinforcement learning), artificial intelligence (with applications to robotics), game theory (with applications to cloud computing, online and mobile advertising, ecommerce), information retrieval and computational advertising. He got his PhD degree and Bachelor degree both from Tsinghua University. He is a member of ACM and IEEE, and an Adjunct Professor (PhD advisor) in the University of Science and Technology of China.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n\r\n[panel header=\"Xing Xie, Microsoft Research Asia\"]\r\n\r\nDr. Xing Xie<\/a> is currently a senior research manager in Microsoft Research Asia, and a guest Ph.D. advisor for the University of Science and Technology of China. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1996 and 2001, respectively. He joined Microsoft Research Asia in July 2001, working on data mining, social computing and ubiquitous computing. During the past years, he has published over 160 referred journal and conference papers, such as ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, ACM Transactions on the Web, ACM\/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, etc. He has more than 50 patents filed or granted. He has been invited to give keynote speeches at MobiQuitous 2016, SocInfo 2015, Socialinformatics 2015, GbR 2015, W2GIS 2011, HotDB 2012, SRSM 2012, etc.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n\r\n[panel header=\"Jun Yan, Microsoft Research Asia\"]\r\n\r\nDr. Jun Yan<\/a> received the Ph.D. degree in digital signal processing and pattern recognition from the department of information science, school of mathematical science, Peking University, P.R. China. During his Ph.D., he has been a research intern of MSRA from 2003 to 2005 and awarded as Microsoft fellow in 2004. Before join Microsoft, he has been a research associate at CBI, HMS, Harvard, Cambridge, MA, in 2005. He joined Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) from 2006. Currently he is working in the Data Mining and Enterprise Intelligence group of MSRA as a senior research manager.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n\r\n[panel header=\"Ying Yan, Microsoft Research Asia\"]\r\n\r\nYing Yan<\/a> is currently working as a Lead Researcher in Cloud Computing Group, MSRA. She got her PhD degree in computer science from Fudan University. She was MSRA PhD fellow. She has 26 publications on the top Database conferences. Before joining MSRA, she also had more than two years working experience in Bing indexserve team.\r\n\r\nHer current research interest includes big data analytic, database optimization and Blockchain technology.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n\r\n[panel header=\"Fan Yang, Microsoft Research Asia\"]\r\n\r\nFan Yang is a researcher at the Systems Research Group in Microsoft Research Asia. Previously, he was affiliated with the Wireless and Networking Group in MSRA from 2004 to 2010. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Nanjing University.\r\n\r\nHis research interests include distributed systems, mobile systems, Internet architecture and protocols, and wireless media communications. He built a few distributed graph engines, among other things.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n\r\n[panel header=\"Andrew Yao, Tsinghua University\"]\r\n\r\nAndrew Yao is currently the dean of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He received his BS in Physics from National Taiwan University, PhD in Physics from Harvard University, and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois. From 1975 onward, Yao served on the faculty at MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley and, during 1986 to 2004, as William and Edna Macaleer Professor of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University. In 2004, he left Princeton to join Tsinghua University in Beijing. He is also a Distinguished Professor-at-Large at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.\r\n\r\nYao\u2019s research interests are in the theory of computation and its applications to cryptography and quantum computing. In 2000, he was honored with the prestigious A.M. Turing Award for his contributions to the theory of computation, including pseudorandom number generation, cryptography, and communication complexity. He has received numerous other honors and awards, including the George Polya Prize, the Donald E. Knuth Prize, and several honorary degrees. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n\r\n[panel header=\"Koji Yatan, The University of Tokyo\"]\r\n\r\nHe received his Ph.D. at University of Toronto under the supervision by Prof. Khai N. Truong at Dynamic Graphics Project. His research interests lie in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and ubiquitous computing. More specifically, his current research focuses on novel applications over emerging information infrastructure, such as AI and IoT systems. In particular, his research emphasizes on development and evaluations of sensing technologies to enable new applications for mobile\/wearable devices, productivity\/creativity support, and interactive systems to encourage user behavior changes. Besides HCI and ubiquitous computing, he is interested in machine learning, statistical analysis, computational linguistics, psychology, and physiology.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n\r\n[panel header=\"Yizhong Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia\"]\r\n\r\nYizhong Zhang is an associate researcher at Microsoft Research Asia. He received his Ph.D. from Zhejiang University 2016. His research interests include physically based simulation, computer graphics, computational fabrication and robotics.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n\r\n[\/accordion]"},{"id":3,"name":"Technology Showcases","content":"\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Exhibit 1<\/div><\/td>\r\n
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How Does Bug-Handling Effort Differ among Different Programming Languages?<\/div><\/td>\r\n
Jie Zhang, Peking University<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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Exhibit 2<\/div><\/td>\r\n
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Mining Significant Microblogs for Misinformation Identification:An Attention-based Approach<\/div><\/td>\r\n
Qiang Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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Exhibit 3<\/div><\/td>\r\n
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Faithful to the Original: Fact Aware Neural Abstractive Summarization<\/div><\/td>\r\n
Ziqiang Cao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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Exhibit 4<\/div><\/td>\r\n
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Boosting Image Captioning with Attributes<\/div><\/td>\r\n
Yingwei Pan, University of Science and Technology of China<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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Exhibit 5<\/div><\/td>\r\n
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Dual Learning: A New Learning Paradigm<\/div><\/td>\r\n
Yingce Xia, University of Science and Technology of China<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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Exhibit 6<\/div><\/td>\r\n
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Interleaved Group Convolutions<\/div><\/td>\r\n
Ting Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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Exhibit 7<\/div><\/td>\r\n
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DCTM: Discrete-Continuous Transformation Matching for Semantic Flow<\/div><\/td>\r\n
Seungryong Kim, Yonsei University<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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Exhibit 8<\/div><\/td>\r\n
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Towards Zero Copy Dataflows using RDMA<\/div><\/td>\r\n
Li Chen, HKUST<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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Exhibit 9<\/div><\/td>\r\n
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Regularizing Deep Neural Networks by Noise: Its Interpretation and Optimization<\/div><\/td>\r\n
Hyeonwoo Noh, POSTECH<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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Exhibit 10<\/div><\/td>\r\n
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Expressing Unknowns in Library Code<\/div><\/td>\r\n
Hao Tang, Peking University<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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Exhibit 11<\/div><\/td>\r\n
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Rendering Speech Across Speaker and Language Difference<\/div><\/td>\r\n
Feng-Long Xie, Harbin Institute of Technology<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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Exhibit 12<\/div><\/td>\r\n
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The Data Civilizer System<\/div><\/td>\r\n
Dong Deng, MIT<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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Exhibit 13<\/div><\/td>\r\n
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VQS: Linking Segmentations to Questions and Answers for Supervised Attention in VQA and Question-Focused Semantic Segmentation<\/div><\/td>\r\n
Chuang Gan, Tsinghua University<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>"}],"msr_startdate":"2017-09-18","msr_enddate":"2017-09-20","msr_event_time":"","msr_location":"Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing","msr_event_link":"","msr_event_recording_link":"","msr_startdate_formatted":"September 18, 2017","msr_register_text":"Watch now","msr_cta_link":"","msr_cta_text":"","msr_cta_bi_name":"","featured_image_thumbnail":"\"a","event_excerpt":"Welcome to Microsoft Research Asia Ph.D. Forum 2017. This forum is organized by Microsoft Research Asia to provide a platform for the outstanding Ph.D. students to exchange insights, gain exposure and learn from each other. Over the years, Microsoft Research Asia has been proactively collaborating with the academic community on young research talents fostering, and has anointed nearly four hundred top researchers with the coveted honor of \u201cMicrosoft Research Ph.D. Fellow.\u201d The forum offers Fellows…","msr_research_lab":[],"related-researchers":[],"msr_impact_theme":[],"related-academic-programs":[],"related-groups":[],"related-projects":[],"related-opportunities":[],"related-publications":[],"related-videos":[],"related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-event\/423609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/msr-event"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-event\/423609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425463,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-event\/423609\/revisions\/425463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"msr-research-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-area?post=423609"},{"taxonomy":"msr-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-region?post=423609"},{"taxonomy":"msr-event-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-event-type?post=423609"},{"taxonomy":"msr-video-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-video-type?post=423609"},{"taxonomy":"msr-locale","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-locale?post=423609"},{"taxonomy":"msr-program-audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-program-audience?post=423609"},{"taxonomy":"msr-post-option","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-post-option?post=423609"},{"taxonomy":"msr-impact-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-impact-theme?post=423609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}