Artificial intelligence
10 Microsoft Research scientists
These ten current and former Microsoft Research scientists have held researcher and research scientist roles at Microsoft Research, according to their profiles. A reader can learn what research work at Microsoft Research involves from people who have done it.
Professionals to explore
01—10Alicia Curth
LinkedInExperience: Senior Researcher Machine Learning · Microsoft Research
Senior Researcher Machine Learning at Microsoft Research since October 2024, in Cambridge, England. Former PhD Researcher at the University of Cambridge (2020–2024), with the profile describing a PhD in Machine Learning for Health Care, and former Junior Data Scientist at Nielsen Rotterdam (2018–2019).
Furu Wei
LinkedInExperience: Chief Scientist · Microsoft Research Asia
Chief Scientist at Microsoft Research Asia since November 2025, and Distinguished Scientist and Vice President since March 2025, in Beijing; the profile says he leads research on large foundation models and general AI, NLP and speech. Held researcher through senior principal research manager titles at Microsoft Research Asia (2010–2022).
Harkirat Singh Behl
LinkedInExperience: Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research · Microsoft
Former Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research at Microsoft (2022–2024) and Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft AI (2024–2025), and Principal Researcher at Microsoft since November 2025, based in Redmond. The profile headline reads Crafting Phi Models @ Microsoft Research.
Jayashree Mohan
LinkedInExperience: Principal Researcher · Microsoft Research
Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research since August 2026 and former Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research (2021–2026), based in Bengaluru; the profile describes building systems infrastructure for efficient LLM inference at MSR India, with interests in storage systems and systems for ML applications.
José Jiménez-Luna
LinkedInExperience: Senior Researcher · Microsoft Research Cambridge
Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge since March 2022, in Cambridge, England, in the Research department at senior level. Former Postdoctoral Fellow at ETH Zürich (2019–2021), Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (2019) and Doctoral Researcher at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2016–2019).
Krishna Kant Chintalapudi
LinkedInExperience: Senior Principal Researcher · Microsoft Research
Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research since December 2015, and former Researcher at Microsoft (2009–2015), based in San Jose; the headline names AI, IoT, computer vision and networking and lists 50+ patents. Former Senior Research Engineer at Bosch USA (2005–2009).
Matthai Philipose
LinkedInExperience: Member of Research Staff, Microsoft Research · Microsoft
Member of Research Staff, Microsoft Research at Microsoft since September 2011 in Seattle; the role listing says making AI efficient, in the Research department. Former Member of Research Staff, Intel Labs at Intel (2002–2011); the profile also mentions research in sensor-based human activity recognition.
Paidamoyo Chapfuwa
LinkedInExperience: Senior Research Scientist (MSR Health Futures) · Microsoft
Senior Research Scientist (MSR Health Futures) at Microsoft since June 2022, in the Seattle area; the profile describes developing statistical machine learning solutions to improve human health. Former Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University (2021–2022) and Graduate Research Assistant at Duke University (2016–2021).
Srinath Setty
LinkedInExperience: Senior Principal Researcher · Microsoft Research
Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research since September 2025, former Principal Researcher (2019–2025) and Senior Researcher (2014–2019) at Microsoft Research, in the Seattle area. The profile names him as inventor of the Nova, Spartan and Jolt zero-knowledge proof systems.
Yadong Lu
LinkedInExperience: Senior Researcher Microsoft Research · Microsoft
Former Senior Researcher Microsoft Research at Microsoft (2021–2025); the role listing names generalist vision language models, computer use agents and post-training for diffusion models and LLMs. Now MTS (Principal Researcher) at Microsoft AI since January 2026, and former AI Research Scientist at Meta (2025–2026).
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Match the person's lab and field, such as machine learning for health, efficient AI systems, foundation models or zero-knowledge proofs, to your question, and check whether they are still at Microsoft Research. Their seniority and lab location can also help you find someone close to the problem you care about.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does a corporate research lab like Microsoft Research decide which AI problems to pursue?
- 02How does research from Microsoft Research move into Microsoft products and services?
- 03What makes AI systems research on efficient large language model inference different from academic work?
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