Arrived at #ICML2026 and will be here till 7/9!
Catch me if you also get excited/talkative on agent-as-team-player, simulation env/game for multi-party post training, group common grounding, and food/cycling in Korea ;)
Pei Zhou at ICML🇰🇷
@peizNLP
Senior Applied Scientist @Microsoft #OAR | PhD @nlp_usc | X-@GoogleDeepMind @allen_ai @AmazonScience @UCLA | Common Ground Reasoning for Communicative Agents
- @TenghaoHuang45 did awesome work on deep-diving the challenges of RL for proactivity and collaboration, check it out!🚀 Thrilled to share our paper “Teaching Language Models to Gather Information Proactively” is accepted to #EMNLP2025-Findings 🎉! We move beyond clarification—teaching LLMs to ask new, insight-seeking questions that help them build better answers. 🔗 arxiv.org/pdf/2507.21389
- Send your most proud open source projects our way, MLEs! Pretty sure this is an extremely exciting opportunity where you’ll be diving into solving impactful challenges with cutting edge science and research at the core.We (Microsoft's Office of Applied Research) have a few openings for exceptional Research Engineers / MLEs to train, test, and scale the next-gen enterprise agentic systems to millions of copilot users. Apply today if you are up for the task! jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/…
- Having thoughts on how to build the future of human-agent group collaboration and can’t wait to enhance current frontier model’s social/communciation intelligence? Join us🔻! There’re lots of fun chats to be had 💬😎🙌We are looking for a full-time research scientist in Microsoft's Office of Applied Research! This person will help lead the development of next-generation AI technologies to support groups of people - not just individuals - in getting their work done.
- A bit late to the #EMNLP2024 party but hyped to talk to folks tmr abt anything from complex real-world reasoning, simulation for generalization, interactive learning to (hiring links below!!) Office of Applied Research and best bars in Miami 😋
