Microsoft Research India Podcast

Microsoft Research India Podcast episodes:

• 05.20.2024

  Evaluating LLMs using novel approaches. With Dr. Sunayana Sitaram

  [Music]Sunayana Sitaram: Our ultimate goal is to build evaluation systems and also other kinds of systems in general where humans and LLMs can work together. We're really trying to get ...

  
• 08.21.2023

  HyWay: Enabling Mingling in the Hybrid World. With Dr. Venkat Padmanabahan and Ajay Manchepalli

  Podcast- HyWay: Enabling Mingling in the Hybrid WorldAjay Manchepalli: One thing we have learned is that, you know as they say, necessity is the mother of invention. This is a great example of that because it's not that we didn't...

  
• 06.13.2022

  HAMS- Using Smartphones to Make Roads Safer. With Dr. Venkat Padmanabhan and Dr. Akshay Nambi

  Episode 013 | June 14, 2022Road safety is a very serious public health issue across the world. Estimates put the traffic related death toll at approximately 1.35 million fatalities every y...

  
• 05.30.2022

  A Random Walk From Complexity Theory to Machine Learning. With Dr. Neeraj Kayal and Dr. Ravishankar Krishnaswamy

  Episode 012 | May 30, 2022Neeraj Kayal: It’s just a matter of time before we figure out how computers can themselves learn like humans do. Just human babies, they have an amazing ability to learn by observing things around them....

  
• 01.17.2022

  Collaborating to Develop a Low-cost Keratoconus Diagnostic Solution. With Dr. Kaushik Murali and Dr. Mohit Jain

  Episode 011 | January 18, 2022Keratoconus is a severe eye disease that affects the cornea, causing it to become weak and develop a conical bulge. Keratoconus, if undiagnosed and entreat...

  
• 09.29.2021

  Accelerating AI Innovation by Optimizing Infrastructure. With Dr. Muthian Sivathanu

  Episode 010 | September 28, 2021Artificial intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Deep Neural Networks are today critical to the success of many industries. But they are also extremely compute intensive and expensive to run in t...

  
• 06.14.2021

  Dependable IoT: Making data from IoT devices dependable and trustworthy for good decision making. With Dr. Akshay Nambi and Ajay Manchepalli

  Episode 009 | June 15, 2021 The Internet of Things has been around for a few years now and many businesses and organizations depend on data from these systems to make critical decisions. At the same time, it is also...

  
• 04.19.2021

  Research @Microsoft Research India: interdisciplinary and impactful. With Dr. Sriram Rajamani

  Episode 008 | April 20, 2021 Microsoft Research India is constantly exploring how research can enable new technologies that positively impact the lives of people while also opening new frontiers in computer science and technology itself. In this podcast we speak...

  
• 12.21.2020

  Helping young students build a career in research through the MSR India Research Fellow program. With Shruti Rijhwani and Dr. Vivek Seshadri

  Episode 007 | December 22, 2020 One of Microsoft Research India’s goals is to help strengthen the research ecosystem and encourage young students to look at research as a career. But it is not always easy for students to understand what...

  
• 10.19.2020

  Evaluating and validating research that aspires to societal impact in real world scenarios. With Tanuja Ganu

  Episode 006 | October 20, 2020 At Microsoft Research India, research focused on societal impact is typically a very interdisciplinary exercise that pulls together social scientists, technology experts and designers. But how does one evaluate or validate the actual impact of research in the real...

  
• 09.07.2020

  Making cryptography accessible, efficient and scalable. With Dr. Divya Gupta and Dr. Rahul Sharma

  Episode 005 | September 08, 2020 Podcast: Making cryptography accessible, efficient and scalable. With Dr. Divya Gupta and Dr. Rahul Sharma Ensuring security and privacy of data, both personal and institutional, is of paramount importance in today’s world where data itself is...

  
• 08.03.2020

  Can we make better software by using ML and AI techniques? With Chandra Maddila and Chetan Bansal

  Episode 004 | August 04, 2020 Podcast: Can we make better software by using ML and AI techniques? With Chandra Maddila and Chetan Bansal The process of software development is dramatically different today compared to even a few years ago. The shift...

  
• 06.01.2020

  Podcast: What 'bhasha' do you want to talk in? With Kalika Bali and Dr. Monojit Choudhury

  Episode 003 | June 02, 2020 Many of us who speak multiple languages switch seamlessly between them in conversations and even mix multiple languages in one sentence. For us humans, this is something we do naturally, but it’s a nightmare for...

  
• 03.20.2020

  Enabling Rural Communities to Participate in Crowdsourcing, with Dr. Vivek Seshadri

  Episode 002 | March 20, 2020 Enabling Rural Communities to Participate in Crowdsourcing, with Dr. Vivek Seshadri Crowdsourcing platforms and the gig economy have been around for a while. But are they equally accessible to all communities? Dr. Vivek Seshadri, a researcher...

  
• 03.02.2020

  Podcast: Potential and Pitfalls of AI with Dr. Eric Horvitz

  Episode 001 | March 06, 2020 Dr. Eric Horvitz is a technical fellow at Microsoft, and is director of Microsoft Research Labs, including research centers in Redmond, Washington, Cambridge, Massachusetts, New York, New York, Montreal, Canada...