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Venue:<\/strong> Microsoft Research Building 99<\/a>
\n14820 NE 36th Street
\nRedmond, Washington<\/p>\n

Contact:<\/strong> phdsumt@microsoft.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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<\/div>\r\nInvited attendees: Microsoft Research Ada Lovelace Fellows, Microsoft Research PhD Fellows, Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant recipients, distinguished international students, and FLIP Fellows.\r\n
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Monday, October 14<\/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\r\n\r\n
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8:00 AM<\/td>\r\nBus pick up<\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\nHeathman Hotel<\/a><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
8:30 AM\u20139:00 AM<\/td>\r\nBreakfast at Microsoft Research<\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\nRoom 1919<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
9:00 AM\u20139:15 AM<\/td>\r\nIntroduction\r\n<\/td>\r\nRoom 1919<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
9:15 AM\u201310:00 AM<\/td>\r\nResearch at Microsoft\r\n<\/td>\r\nRoom 1919<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
10:00 AM\u201310:15 AM<\/td>\r\nBreak<\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
10:15 AM\u201312:00 PM<\/td>\r\nStudent Elevator Pitches and Feedback\r\n<\/td>\r\nRoom 1919<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
12:00 PM\u20131:00 PM<\/td>\r\nNetworking Lunch<\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\nRoom 1919<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
1:00 PM\u20131:30 PM<\/td>\r\nResearcher Short Talks\r\n<\/td>\r\nRoom 1919<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
1:30 PM\u20131:45 PM<\/td>\r\nBreak<\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
1:45 PM\u20132:45 PM<\/td>\r\nDifferent Career Paths: Academia and Industry\r\n<\/td>\r\nRoom 1919<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
2:45 PM\u20133:00 PM<\/td>\r\nBreak<\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
3:00 PM\u20135:00 PM<\/td>\r\nStudent Poster Session<\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\nAtrium<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
5:00 PM\u20137:00 PM<\/td>\r\nDinner - Boardwalk at Microsoft<\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\nThe Commons<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n
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Tuesday, October 15<\/h2>\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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8:00 AM<\/td>\r\nBus pick up<\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\nHeathman Hotel<\/a><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
8:30 AM\u20139:00 AM<\/td>\r\nBreakfast at Microsoft Research<\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\nRoom 1919<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
9:00 AM\u201310:30 AM<\/td>\r\nPanel & Discussion: Careers at Microsoft Research\r\n<\/td>\r\nRoom 1919<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
10:30 AM\u201311:00 AM<\/td>\r\nBreak<\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
11:00 AM\u201312:00 PM<\/td>\r\nResearcher Short Talks\r\n<\/td>\r\nRoom 1919<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
12:00 PM\u20131:00 PM<\/td>\r\nNetworking Lunch<\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\nRoom 1919<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
1:00 PM\u20132:00 PM<\/td>\r\nResearcher Meetings\r\n
<\/div>\r\nIf interested, each student may have one or two 25-minute meetings with Microsoft researchers. Students and researchers will receive meeting requests with the time and location included just prior to the meetings.<\/td>\r\n
<\/td>\r\nVarious Offices<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n
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Speaker:<\/strong> Donald Kossmann<\/a>, Microsoft Research<\/p>\r\nTitle:<\/strong> The Global AI Supercomputer | video<\/a>\r\n\r\nProfessor Donald Kossmann, Distinguished Scientist and Director or the Redmond Lab gave the Microsoft PhD Summit opening keynote on the topic of The Global AI Supercomputer and the next era of computing.\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[panel header=\"Short Talk: Bailu Ding\"]\r\n

Speaker:<\/strong> Bailu Ding<\/a>, Microsoft Research<\/p>\r\nTitle:<\/strong> Automatically Indexing Databases | video<\/a>\r\n\r\nSelecting an appropriate set of indexes to build in a database for a given workload can result in significant reductions in query execution cost, e.g., CPU time. Being able to fully automate index recommendation and implementation is a significant value-add for a cloud database service provider. One key requirement of automated index implementation for production systems is that creating or dropping indexes does not cause significant query performance regressions. Such regressions, where a query\u2019s execution cost increases after changing the indexes, is a major impediment to fully-automated indexing as users desire to enforce a no query regression constraint.\r\n\r\nIn this talk, I give an overview of the architecture of auto-indexing. I then cover two research directions in this area from my previous work: Plan Forcing for regression recovery and AI Meets AI for regression prevention.\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[panel header=\"Short Talk: Dan Morris\"]\r\n

Speaker:<\/strong> Dan Morris<\/a>, Microsoft AI for Earth<\/p>\r\nTitle:<\/strong> Making Wildlife Surveys More Efficient and Less Excruciatingly Boring with Computer Vision\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[panel header=\"Short Talk: Nathalie Riche\"]\r\n

Speaker:<\/strong> Nathalie Riche<\/a>, Microsoft Research<\/p>\r\nTitle:<\/strong> Digital ink + Data | video<\/a>\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[panel header=\"Short Talk: Scott Saponas\"]\r\n

Speaker:<\/strong> Scott Saponas<\/a>, Microsoft Healthcare<\/p>\r\nTitle:<\/strong> Physiological Sensing Outside the Clinic | video<\/a>\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[panel header=\"Different Career Paths: Academia & Industry panel\"]\r\n

Moderator:<\/strong> Meredith Ringel Morris<\/a>, Microsoft Research<\/p>\r\nPanelist:<\/strong> Landon Cox<\/a>, Microsoft Research; Charles L. Isbell, Jr.<\/a>, Georgia Institute of Technology; James Mickens<\/a>, Harvard University\r\n\r\nThis panel\u2019s members have all held a variety of jobs post-Ph.D., including a mixture of academic and industrial roles. The panelists will compare and contrast these career paths, and discuss how students can prepare themselves for different types of post-graduate careers.\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[panel header=\"Careers at Microsoft Research panel\"]\r\n

Moderator:<\/strong> Meredith Ringel Morris<\/a>, Microsoft Research<\/p>\r\nPanelists: <\/strong>Denae Ford Robinson<\/a>, Microsoft Research; Dioselin Gonzalez<\/a>, Microsoft Research; Shadi Noghabi<\/a>, Microsoft Research\r\n\r\nThis panel features speakers who have held a variety of roles at Microsoft Research, including postdoc, researcher, and research software engineering roles. The panelists will describe these roles, and give tips on how to successfully prepare for, apply for, and interview for jobs at Microsoft Research.\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[panel header=\"Short Talk: Tom Ball\"]\r\n

Speaker:<\/strong> Tom Ball<\/a>, Microsoft Research<\/p>\r\n\r\nProgramming Webs of Microcontrollers. I\u2019ll discuss progress in using web technology to make it easier to program microcontroller-based devices, with a focus on physical computing for CS education. For more info, see www.makecode.com<\/a>.\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[panel header=\"Short Talk: Ken Hinckley\"]\r\n

Speaker:<\/strong> Ken Hinckley<\/a>, Microsoft Research<\/p>\r\nTitle:<\/strong> Practical Sensing of the \u201cSeen but Unnoticed\u201d | video<\/a>\r\n\r\nKen Hinckley talks about practical approaches to sensing the \u201cseen but unnoticed\u201d vocabulary of natural touch and device interaction. Examples include automatic screen rotation on mobiles, posture sensing on dual-screen devices, or even pre-touch sensing that perhaps could vault future devices well beyond the flatland of traditional touchscreen interfaces.\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[panel header=\"Short Talk: Nikunj Raghuvanshi\"]\r\n

Speaker:<\/strong> Nikunj Raghuvanshi<\/a>, Microsoft Research<\/p>\r\nTitle:<\/strong> Project Triton: interactive sound propagation | video<\/a>\r\n\r\nProject Triton aims to bring the acoustic realism in games and VR on-par with photo-realistic lighting. It accurately models wave effects like diffracted occlusion, scattering, and reverberation of sound in real-time and has shipped in several major games.\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[panel header=\"Short Talk: Martin Roetteler\"]\r\n

Speaker:<\/strong> Martin Roetteler<\/a>, Microsoft Quantum<\/p>\r\nTitle:<\/strong> Programming in Q# and the Microsoft Quantum Development Kit | video<\/a>\r\n\r\nIn this talk, I give an overview of the Microsoft Quantum Development Kit. Using real-world applications in chemistry and cryptography, I show how Q# software libraries and quantum dev tools can be used to analyze the resource footprints of large scale quantum algorithms.\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[panel header=\"Short Talk: Asta Roseway\"]\r\n

Speaker:<\/strong> Asta Roseway<\/a>, Microsoft Research<\/p>\r\nTitle:<\/strong> Urban Innovation Initiative | video<\/a><\/li>\r\n\r\nAsta Roseway gives a brief overview of the career path that led her to Microsoft Research and the projects she's currently working on including DigiGirlz, Urban Innovation Initiative, and Artist in Residence.\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[panel header=\"Short Talk: Mike Sinclair\"]\r\n

Speaker:<\/strong> Mike Sinclair<\/a>, Microsoft Research<\/p>\r\nTitle:<\/strong> Natural User Interface - Haptics | video<\/a>\r\n\r\nMy research goal is to develop a producible haptic technology for use in AR\/VR that presents a natural tactile interface to the user rather than vibrotactile as is done today.\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[panel header=\"Short Talk: Siddharth Suri\"]\r\n

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