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senior principal researcher at msr nyc, adjunct professor at columbia

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Research Intern - Computational Social Science | Microsoft Careers Research Interns put inquiry and theory into practice. Alongside fellow doctoral candidates and some of the world's best researchers, Research Interns learn, collaborate, and network for life. Researc...

We're hiring interns in the Computational Social Science group at Microsoft Research NYC!

If you're interested in designing AI‑based systems and understanding their impact at both individual and societal scales, apply here by Jan 9, 2026: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...

15.12.2025 16:33 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Excited to share this work, joint w/ many great collaborators, on the simulation environment we built to study the "Agentic Economy" and what we learned along the way.

- GitHub: lnkd.in/dNRmhB5B
- Blog: lnkd.in/dRzYQKpU
- Tech report: lnkd.in/diTH4V5W
- Broader thoughts: arxiv.org/abs/2505.15799

06.11.2025 16:38 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

🚨The Agentic Economy🚨 new paper w/ 9 co-authors: what happens to economy with expanded agent use for both consumers & businesses? The architecture of agentic communication will determine extent to which generative AI democratizes (or restricts) access to
economic opportunity arxiv.org/abs/2505.15799

30.05.2025 16:59 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

NYC undergrads: still one more day to apply for this year's Microsoft Research Data Science Summer School! Apply here by April 15th: bit.ly/3pCQENh

14.04.2025 18:48 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Check out ChatBench, our new paper+dataset. We turned AI benchmarks into user-AI chats and show that AI-alone evals often fail to predict how real humans perform with AI.
@serinachang5.bsky.social @ashtonanderson.bsky.social

serinachang5.github.io/assets/files...
huggingface.co/datasets/mic...

09.04.2025 21:29 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Attention NYC undergrads: Applications are open for our 12th annual Data Science Summer school at Microsoft Research NYC! Apply here by April 15th: bit.ly/3pCQENh

24.03.2025 18:46 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

thanks for the shoutout and great writeup. your critique of self-help tricks makes me think you might find these results interesting, too :) jakehofman.com/pdfs/success...

17.03.2025 14:33 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Microsoft's Computational Social Science group may have the opportunity to hire one researcher

Senior: 0-3 yrs post PhD
jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

Principal: 3+ yrs post PhD
jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/sh...

Please note: our ability to hire this season is not certain

19.12.2024 18:54 πŸ‘ 129 πŸ” 54 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1