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Project Ire autonomously identifies malware at scale
| Brian Caswell, Dustin Fraze, Sarah Smith, Rodrigo Racanicci, Tim Middleton-Sally, Shelby Hayes, Stanley He, Katy Smith, Bhakta Pradhan, and Mike Walker
Designed to classify software without context, Project Ire replicates the gold standard in malware analysis through reverse engineering. It streamlines a complex, expert-driven process, making large-scale malware detection faster & more consistent.
VeriTrail: Detecting hallucination and tracing provenance in multi-step AI workflows
| Dasha Metropolitansky
VeriTrail, new from Microsoft Research, can detect AI-generated content that is not supported by the source text, trace the provenance of content from final output back to the source, and locate where errors were likely introduced.
In the news | National Academy of Engineering
Kevin Hsieh selected to participate in 2025 Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
The signature activity of the National Academy of Engineering brings the next generation of engineering leaders together to share new techniques and approaches, facilitate collaboration, and build professional networks.
In the news | The Microsoft Cloud
Microsoft as customer zero: Empowering research teams with AI
Research has always been an integral part of Microsoft’s identity, driving our role as a global technology leader. Since 1991, Microsoft Research has dedicated itself to a fundamental research approach—advancing knowledge, deepening our understanding of the world, and exploring how…
Research Focus: Week of May 7, 2025
In this issue: New research on compound AI systems and causal verification of the Confidential Consortium Framework; release of Phi-4-reasoning; enriching tabular data with semantic structure, and more.
Microsoft Fusion Summit explores how AI can accelerate fusion research
| Kenji Takeda, Shruti Rajurkar, and Ade Famoti
The first Microsoft Research Fusion Summit brought together global experts to explore how AI can help unlock the potential of fusion energy. Discover how collaborations with leading institutions can help speed progress toward clean, scalable energy.
Research Focus: Week of April 21, 2025
In this issue: our CHI 2025 & ICLR 2025 contributions, plus research on causal reasoning & LLMs; countering LLM jailbreak attacks; and how people use AI vs. AI-alone. Also, SVP of Microsoft Health Jim Weinstein talks rural healthcare innovation.
Engagement, user expertise, and satisfaction: Key insights from the Semantic Telemetry Project
| Amber Hoak, Scott Counts, Kate Lytvynets, David Tittsworth, Siddharth Suri, Nirupama Chandrasekaran, Ben Cutler, and Weiwei Yang
Semantic Telemetry Project data show that people who use AI for more professional and complex tasks are more likely to keep using the tool and to use it more often. Novice AI users engage in simpler tasks, but their usage…
Research Focus: Week of March 24, 2025
In this issue, we examine a new conversation segmentation method that delivers more coherent and personalized agent conversation, and we review efforts to improve MLLMs’ understanding of geologic maps. Check out the latest research and other updates.