Microsoft Research Podcast

Coauthor roundtable: Reflecting on healthcare economics, biomedical research, and medical education

August 21, 2025 | Peter Lee, Carey Goldberg, and Dr. Isaac Kohane
For the series finale, Peter Lee, Carey Goldberg, and Dr. Zak Kohane compare their predictions to insights from the series’ most recent guests, including experts on AI’s economic and societal impact, leaders in AI-driven medicine, and doctors in training.

Recent Podcasts

  1. Microsoft Research Podcast - Abstracts hero with a microphone icon

    Abstracts: March 21, 2024 

    March 21, 2024 | Chang Liu and Gretchen Huizinga

    Senior Researcher Chang Liu discusses M-OFDFT, a variation of orbital-free density functional theory (OFDFT) that leverages deep learning to help identify molecular properties in a way that minimizes the tradeoff between accuracy and efficiency.

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    Abstracts: February 29, 2024 

    February 29, 2024 | Lev Tankelevitch and Gretchen Huizinga

    Can how we think about our thinking help us better incorporate generative AI in our lives & work? Explore metacognition’s potential to improve the tech’s usability on “Abstracts,” then sign up for Microsoft Research Forum for more on this & other AI work.

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    What’s Your Story: Nicole Forsgren 

    February 15, 2024 | Johannes Gehrke and Nicole Forsgren

    Partner Research Manager and developer experience expert Nicole Forsgren talks about the future of software engineering with AI, why she loves tech, and her reliance on a spreadsheet and her gut when making career-changing decisions.

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    What’s Your Story: Ivan Tashev 

    February 1, 2024 | Johannes Gehrke and Ivan Tashev

    Partner Software Architect Ivan Tashev talks about applying his expertise in audio signal processing to the design and study of audio components for Microsoft products such as Kinect and shares how a focus on what he can control has fueled professional success.

  5. Microsoft Research Podcast - Abstracts hero with a microphone icon

    Abstracts: January 25, 2024 

    January 25, 2024 | Gretchen Huizinga, Jordan Ash, and Dipendra Misra

    On “Abstracts,” Jordan Ash & Dipendra Misra discuss the parameter reduction method LASER. Tune in to learn how selective removal of stored data alone can boost LLM performance, then sign up for Microsoft Research Forum for more on LASER & related topics.

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    Abstracts: December 12, 2023 

    December 12, 2023 | Gretchen Huizinga, Tao Qin, and Lijun Wu

    Members of the research community at Microsoft work continuously to advance their respective fields. Abstracts brings its audience to the cutting edge with them through short, compelling conversations about new and noteworthy achievements.  In this episode, Senior Principal Research Manager Tao Qin and Senior Researcher…

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    Abstracts: December 11, 2023 

    December 11, 2023 | Gretchen Huizinga and Alessandro Sordoni

    By treating language models as layers in a network and prompts as learnable parameters, researchers aim for more adaptable, reusable LLM architectures. Check out the work in the “Abstracts” podcast series with guest Alessandro Sordoni and at #NeurIPS2023:

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    Abstracts: December 6, 2023 

    December 6, 2023 | Gretchen Huizinga and Xing Xie

    "Abstracts”—your source for world-class research in brief—welcomes Senior Principal Research Manager Xing Xie to the podcast series to discuss his paper on evaluating general-purpose AI with psychometrics.

  9. MSR Podcast "What's your story" | Desney Tan

    What’s Your Story: Desney Tan 

    November 16, 2023 | Johannes Gehrke and Desney Tan

    From service in the Singapore Armed Forces to autonomous navigation with NASA & VR with Disney, Desney Tan’s life journey hasn’t been linear. Learn how Tan landed at Microsoft & about the purpose guiding his work in the podcast series “What’s Your Story”.