Brent Hecht

@bhecht.bsky.social

Director of Applied Science and Partner at Microsoft. Still kinda an associate professor at Northwestern too. brenthecht.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! 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.

Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2024 - Microsoft Research

As Microsoft approaches its 50th anniversary, the landscape of work continues to evolve at an unprecedented pace. The past year has marked a pivotal shift, moving from predictions and controlled lab s...

aka.ms

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!