MSRA Outreach

08/12/2023

Join Microsoft Research Asia’s StarTrack Scholars Program! Collaborate with elite researchers for a 3-month dive into the Microsoft Research environment. Spotlight on Media Foundation, driving innovation in media and technology:

In a groundbreaking move, Microsoft Research Asia’s prestigious StarTrack Scholars Program has officially taken flight, extending a global invitation to brilliant young minds for an immersive three-month research visit. Picture this: collaboration with elite researchers, a deep dive into the Micro...

21/11/2023

Announcing the MSR Asia StarTrack Scholars Program! Looking for distinguished university faculty members worldwide with ≤7 years of experience. Join us to create excellence and shape the future together through impactful research and innovation. For more details: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/microsoft-research-asia-startrack-program/

02/09/2022

Save the date for this October 18 - 20 where the global research community will share progress and spark conversations around advances that could empower people and impact our world. Registration opens September 13th: https://msft.it/6187jlWMP
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29/10/2021

Dr. Lidong Zhou, Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia, expressed his congratulation and expectations to the fellows, “Our Fellowship Program aims to discover early-stage PhD students with great ambitions and potentials, so that we can empower them to become the future leaders in computer science. Let’s create our bright future together!”

What are the fellow's scientific research plans? Let us get to know these 11 outstanding doctoral students.

29/10/2021

Eleven outstanding PhD students from Asia-Pacific are awarded Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship in 2021, with another 17 students winning the Nomination Award, after fierce competition among 157 outstanding PhD students from 50 top universities and institutions across Asia. The applicants' research fields cover in computational science, hardware and software systems, human and machine intelligence, and perception, recognition and interaction.

All of the Fellows are committed to solid research, as well as holding ambitious research goals. Their aspirations are also in line with the original intention for inaugurating Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship which is to empower the next generation of outstanding computer science researchers.

The 2021 Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship has attracted 157 outstanding PhD students from 50 top universities and institutions across Asia to apply. The applicants’ research fields cover in computational science, hardware and software systems, human and machine intelligence, and perception, reco...

15/10/2021

Open to everyone! The first-ever 2021 Microsoft Research Summit, Oct 19 - 21, with over 150 sessions across 16 tracks, provides the global research community with an opportunity learn from experts pushing the frontiers of technology. Register now:

Join us October 19-21 at the inaugural Microsoft Research Summit.

24/09/2021

Open for registration! In this issue of MSRA Alumni Association Live+ Series, two MSRA alumni, Dr. Hong Z. Tan, the Lead Haptics Scientist at Google LLC and Professor at Purdue University, and Dr. Koji Yatani, Associate professor at the University of Tokyo, are invited to share their exploration and achievements in HCI area.
How did they determine their specific research directions in this field? What is the difference between doing research in academia and industry? What advice do they have for young alumni who are interested in doing research?
Welcome to join this global alumni activity and non-alumni are also welcomed.
Time:
September 28th 6:30-7:30 PM (Seattle Time)
September 28th 9:30-10:30 PM (New York Time)
September 29th 9:30-10:30 AM (Beijing Time)
September 29th 10:30-11:30 AM (Tokyo & Seoul Time)
Please scan the QR code in the picture to learn more and register ^^

23/06/2020

Yuichi Yoshida was a 2009 Fellowship winner and currently serves as an associate professor at the National Institute of Information in Japan. In 2017, he also won the Microsoft Research (Young Faculty) Award, which is the most prestigious award for young researchers among all the awards established by the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ). It means that the Fellowship discovered a rising star eight years ago.
An interesting fact is that the Fellowship even became his endorsement as a “good son.” “My mother hung it on the wall of the house to show it off to the neighborhood,” Yuichi Yoshida said. 😏😏

12/06/2020

“The Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship is the only fellowship sponsored by a top-tier international company that is intended to support Korean graduate students in computer science.” Bohyung Han, an associate professor at Seoul National University in South Korea said.
Seunghoon Hong is one of the students recommended by Bohyung Han who eventually went on to win the award in 2014. While writing his research statement to apply to it, he thought deeply about his long-term research goals for the very first time. “That was a great experience as a junior Ph.D. student, and it has helped me to think about my research as part of a larger picture whenever I’ve worked on new problems,” he said.

10/06/2020

Earlier this year, a novel coronavirus rendered online teaching a norm. To address this, the China Computer System Education Workshop hosted by MSRA launched its first online event in 2020 with the topic: “How Should Online Computer Systems Courses Be Taught?”
More than 30 front-line computer systems educators contributed to an exciting discussion on teaching experiences. How do they teach classes online? What methods can be applied to offline teaching in the future? Click the link for more details 🕵️‍♂️

Earlier this year, a novel coronavirus rendered online teaching a norm. With “classroom” experiences poor, effective interactions between teachers and students difficult to maintain, and teaching quality easily affected by network conditions, online teaching has created many difficulties for tea...

04/06/2020

Jun Kato, a 2012 Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship winner, a senior researcher at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan now, originally thought of himself as “a kind of person who could be happy in both industry and academia.” The fellowship boosted his decision to become a researcher. He worked as an intern in MSRA and Microsoft Research Redmond after winning the award, where he was fortunate to have collaborated with not only Human-computer Interaction (HCI) researchers in his own field, but also Programming Language (PL) researchers. The two internships resulted in academic publications at ACM UIST 2012 and ACM PLDI 2013.
Those pictures are taken when he did his internship in MSRA. His team members celebrated his birthday with him.

01/06/2020

In the past two decades, 429 outstanding PhD students from more than 50 universities in the Asia-Pacific region have been awarded the Microsoft Research Asia Fellowships. Here are a few touching stories about fellows. And in the near future, the protagonist may be you😏

He was the first Chinese scholar to become a “complete” fellow at all the following organizations: ACM, AAAI, IEEE, AAAS and IAPR. He was the first Chinese scholar to serve as the program chair of AAAI. He was elected as a foreign academician of the European Academy of Sciences, and he received ...