August 12, 2026
2026 MSR Asia StarTrack Seminar
Location: Meeting Room 14366, Building 2, Beijing office, Microsoft Research Asia
Register| TIME | SESSION | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| 13:30 – 13:40 | Opening and Welcome | Yan Lu, Microsoft Research Asia |
| 13:40 – 14:10 | Agentic Media: Evolving Memory for Long-Horizon Knowledge Work | Xun Guo, Microsoft Research Asia |
| 14:10 – 15:40 | Idea Sparks Panel I: Reliable Agentic AI for Complex Tasks | Fan Yang, Microsoft Research Asia (Chair) |
| Revisiting the infra in the LLM era | Erci Xu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Collaborative researcher: Fan Yang, Microsoft Research Asia Jing Liu, Microsoft Research Asia | |
| Building a Robust Consensus Protocol for Reliable Agentic AI (Online) | Jialin Li, National University of Singapore (Online) Collaborative researcher: Fan Yang, Microsoft Research Asia Jing Liu, Microsoft Research Asia | |
| What Remains Human in AI-Assisted Research? | Tao Huang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Collaborative researcher: Jiahao Li, Microsoft Research Asia | |
| Reliable Agentic AI Starts with Reliable Researchers (Online) | Yatao Bian, National University of Singapore Collaborative researcher: Xinxing Xu, Microsoft Research Asia | |
| Towards the Agentic Hospital: Multimodal Medical Agents and World Models | Shuo Wang, Fudan University Collaborative researcher: Xinyang Jiang, Microsoft Research Asia | |
| AI as a Research Partner, Not a Research Replacement (Online) | Wenjie Wang, ShanghaiTech University Collaborative researcher: Dongqi Han, Microsoft Research Asia | |
| Agents That Know What They Can Do: From Capability Awareness to Skill Learning | Kan Ren, ShanghaiTech University Collaborative researcher: Yuqing Yang, Microsoft Research Asia | |
| 15:40 – 16:00 | Group Photo and Tea Break | All |
| 16:00 – 17:30 | Idea Sparks Panel II: Understanding, Generating, and Interacting with Complex Worlds | Jiaolong Yang, Microsoft Research Asia (Chair) |
| Neural Structure Light Sensing Model | Wenzheng Chen, Peking University Collaborative researcher: Jiaolong Yang, Microsoft Research Asia | |
| UniVidX: A Unified Multimodal Framework for Versatile Video Generation via Diffusion Priors (Online) | Anyi Rao, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Online) Collaborative researcher: Yun Wang, Microsoft Research Asia | |
| From Guideline-Grounded Diagnosis to Predictive, Agentic AI in Healthcare | Shujun Wang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Collaborative researcher: Shujie Liu, Microsoft Research Asia | |
| State Space Model as Memory for Long-Context Video World Models | Alex Lamb, Tsinghua University Collaborative researcher: Li Zhao, Microsoft Research Asia | |
| TrustMH-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating the Trustworthiness of Large Language Models in Mental Health (Online) | Wenxuan Wang, Renmin University of China Collaborative researcher: Fangzhao Wu, Microsoft Research Asia | |
| BiasFlow: Auditing and Enforcing Counterfactual Consistency in Tool-Using LLM Decision Pipelines | Yiren Fung, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Collaborative researcher: Jianxun Lian, Microsoft Research Asia | |
| 18:00 – 20:00 | Dinner | All |