Brent Hecht

The best candidates will be Ph.D. students who have designed and coded model-forward AI systems to advance their research in fields ranging from NLP to UIST-like HCI. Part-time or full-time both work well. If you're interested, send a quick note and CV to oarcentral@microsoft.com.

The Office of Applied Research at Microsoft is looking for more Ph.D. interns! We need folks who are particularly hands-on (i.e. have a record of building real, working systems as part of their research) and, critically, can start pretty much right now (vs. the summer).

Microsoft's New Future of Work Report 2024 is out! More than 50 of us contributed to this!

If you like hot, fresh citations about AI & productivity, you'll find hundreds here:

aka.ms/nfw2024

It’s that magical time of the year when researchers across Microsoft release our collective effort to summarize the state of knowledge regarding AI and the New Future of Work. Here ya go:

aka.ms/nfw2024

The report is also the product of a huge squad of researchers at Microsoft, but a special thank you to my fellow editors who led the charge: Jenna Butler, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Rebecca Janßen, Abigail Sellen, Nicole Immorlica, and @teevan.bsky.social.

The report synthesizes awesome research coming out of Microsoft and from amazing researchers from around the world. Some of my favorite topics we cover include in-the-world productivity gains seen from generative AI and the importance of avoiding "discursive closure" about what AI is and can be.

Microsoft's New Future of Work Report 2024 is out! For those of you interested in how AI will affect work and those of you building AI technologies for work, this report is hopefully a must-add to your year-end reading list. You can grab it here: aka.ms/nfw2024.

Hello Bluesky! We're hiring amazing scientists in the productivity division at Microsoft. Come work with me, @teevan.bsky.social, and a whole legion of awesome researchers.

jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

Curious about how AI and remote work are reshaping our workplaces? Meet Brent Hecht (www.linkedin.com/in/brenthecht/), a pioneer in human-centered AI research.

Hello Bluesky! We're hiring amazing scientists in the productivity division at Microsoft. Come work with me, @teevan.bsky.social, and a whole legion of awesome researchers.

jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

Hi Bluesky (+ many friendly familiar faces). I'm a researcher in HCI + ML, assistant prof at Simon Fraser University up in BC, and working on "healthy data flow". Doing a quick thread recapping some recent writing (blogs, pre-prints, etc.) that capture the things I work on and talk about!