Microsoft Research Asia

Microsoft Research Asia, Microsoft's fundamental research arm in the Asia Pacific region and the company's largest research institute outside the United States, was founded in Beijing China on November 5, 1998.[1] It employs around 200 researchers and engineers, has fostered more than 6,000 interns, has awarded over 400 Microsoft fellowships, has published over 5,000 papers for top international journals and conferences, and has achieved many technological breakthroughs.[2] It is one of the seven Microsoft Research labs.[3] The current managing director of Microsoft Research Asia is Hsiao-Wuen Hon.[4] In Sept. 2018, Microsoft announced the establishment of Microsoft Research Asia-Shanghai.[5]

Microsoft Research Asia
HeadquartersTower 2, Microsoft Building, No. 5 Danling Street, Haidian District,
Beijing
,
China
Key people
Websitewww.microsoft.com/en-us/research/lab/microsoft-research-asia/

MSR Asia conducts both basic and applied research in areas central to Microsoft's long-term strategy and future computing vision: Natural User Interface, Intelligent multimedia, Artificial intelligence, Cloud and edge computing, Big data and knowledge mining and Computer science fundamentals.

Technologies from MSR Asia have had a large influence within Microsoft's products innovation. Almost every Microsoft core product contains technological innovation from MSR Asia, including Office, Windows, Azure, Bing, Visual Studio, Xbox, Kinect and HoloLens, etc.[6]

In addition, technologies from the lab have been adopted by international standards bodies such as MPEG4 (error-resilient video transmission), IETF (TCP/IP header compression), and ITU/ISO (video-compression technology).[7]

MSR Asia has excelled at creating a talent-fostering environment, where researchers are free to explore and pursue what interests them. This culture not only drives researchers to develop groundbreaking technologies and work at the cutting edge, but has also made the lab a natural partner for academia.[8]

June 2004, Microsoft Research Asia appeared on the cover of MIT Technology Review and was hailed as "the world's hottest computer lab."[9]

Academic Collaboration

MSR Asia cooperates with many universities and research institutions in the Asia-Pacific region to foster innovative research and advanced education, and to promote academic collaboration.[10]

The outreach team of MSR Asia organized various programs and events, including Joint Lab program,[11] Fellowship program,[12] Visiting Young Faculty program, The Stars of Tomorrow internship program, Joint-PhD program, Microsoft Student Club, Ada Workshop,[13] etc. One component of these new initiatives is an emphasis on regional programs that extend collaborations with universities in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore.[14]

In order to cooperate more smoothly and extensively with universities, MSR Asia launched Research Collaboration Program to support in-depth collaboration between academics from universities and research institutions in Asia and MSR Asia's researchers on research topics of mutual interest. Until now, MSR Asia has funded over 1,370 joint research projects, benefiting more than 1,000 professors from 118 universities in Asia-Pacific.[15]

Events

In addition to fundamental research MSR Asia also plays host to events that facilitate collaboration among academics, researchers, and industry experts. These events include:

  • Computing in the 21st Century Conference (21CCC)[16]
  • Asia Faculty Summit[17]

Notable Developments

Researchers at MSR Asia have contributed to a number of technological breakthroughs:

See also

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