Microsoft

Ahmed H. Awadallah is a Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research. His work spans large language models, search, conversational AI, and applied machine learning.

Alex Ficek is a final-year PhD student at the University of Michigan and incoming applied scientist at Microsoft working on language models, agents, reinforcement learning, and infrastructure.

Steven Hoi is an AI researcher whose public profiles list him as Vice President at Alibaba Group and professor at Singapore Management University on leave. His stated interests span machine learning, computer vision, NLP, and conversational AI.

Carolyn Jane Anderson is an assistant professor of computer science at Wellesley College whose public research focuses on code, mathematical reasoning, and the intersection of programming languages, NLP, theory, and HCI.

AI systems engineer and Fireworks AI co-founder focused on large-scale machine learning infrastructure; public profiles also identify him as a former Meta engineer and PyTorch contributor.

Chief scientist and co-founder of Mistral AI known for work on multilingual language modeling, machine translation, theorem proving, and mathematical reasoning; previously a research scientist at FAIR.

Senior machine learning engineer at Microsoft whose public homepage highlights selected projects, publications, and open-source work.

Li Dong is a Microsoft Research principal researcher focused on human language technologies and machine intelligence.

A November 21, 2025 Columbia event described Jingren Zhou as Alibaba Cloud CTO and Qwen/Wan leader. Caixin reported on April 8, 2026 that Alibaba named Li Feifei as cloud CTO and Zhou became chief AI architect while leading the Tongyi unit.

Shaohan Huang is a senior researcher in the General Artificial Intelligence Group at Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing. OpenReview lists him as a Microsoft researcher and a former master's student at Beihang University.

Barry Haddow is a natural language processing researcher affiliated with Microsoft Research and the University of Edinburgh.

Jake Bubeck is a scientist at OpenAI whose public work studies what large foundation models can do and how they behave. He previously worked at Microsoft Research on foundation models and algorithms.

Jianwei Yang is a researcher working on computer vision, multimodal learning, and large-scale foundation models. His public profile highlights object detection, image understanding, and vision-language systems.

Jiuxiang Gu is an AI researcher whose public homepage describes work on multimodal understanding and generative AI, including roles at Microsoft, Salesforce Research, and Amazon AWS AI Labs.

Public Tongyi Lab materials identify Yue Wang as a researcher working on mobile GUI agents, including MAI-UI and MobileWorld.

Leon Liangyu Chen is a computer science Ph.D. student at Stanford University. His public research profile describes work on scalable training and evaluation frameworks for AI agents and multimodal reasoning.

Public sources identify Panrong Tong as a researcher at Alibaba Cloud, and Tongyi Lab pages list him on mobile and GUI agent work. OpenReview lists earlier postdoctoral and PhD training at Nanyang Technological University.

Shriram Rajendran is a lead applied scientist at Microsoft working on agents, reasoning models, and model distillation. He earned his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin, where his research covered core machine learning, generative AI, and optimization.

Public Peking University faculty pages list Zhifang Sui as a professor in the Institute of Computational Linguistics with research interests in natural language processing and computational linguistics.

Co-author of the BitNet b1.58 2B4T Technical Report; the paper's author note states that S. Ma is with Microsoft Research.

Rahul Gupta is a Senior Applied Science Manager at Amazon Nova whose work spans speech, language, multimodal AI, and generative models.

Applied Scientist at Microsoft. Publicly listed research interests include language models, deep generative models, vision and language, and multimodal reasoning; his homepage also lists the Phi-3 Technical Report among his publications.

Thomas Scialom is a research scientist at Microsoft working on large language model training, post-training, safety, and evaluation. His public profile highlights reinforcement learning, scalable training, and reliable language model behavior.

Marcin Michalski is a researcher at Microsoft whose public profile and Google Scholar page highlight work on small language models, reasoning, and machine learning systems.

Ahmed H. Awadallah

Alex Ficek

Hoi, Steven

Carolyn Jane Anderson

Dmytro Dzhulgakov

Guillaume Lample

Morteza Peyravi

Dong, Li

Zhou, Jingren

Huang, Shaohan

Barry Haddow

Jake Bubeck

Jianwei Yang

Jiuxiang Gu

Wang, Yue

Chen, Liangyu

Tong, Panrong

Shriram Rajendran

Sui, Zhifang

Ma, Shuming

Rahul Gupta

Ronen Tamir

Thomas Scialom

Marcin Michalski