Postdoc Researcher on Large Language Models for End-User Programming

We invite early-career researchers to join our two-year postdoctoral residency programme in the Calc Intelligence team at Microsoft Research Cambridge.??

Spreadsheets are the world’s most widely used end-user programming technology and the definitive low-code and no-code platform. The recent success of large language models (LLMs) creates an opportunity to take a qualitative step forward, to extend dramatically the reach of what end-users can do with spreadsheets.???

The Calc Intelligence team at Microsoft Research is dedicated to advancing the state of the art in spreadsheet technology and experience. Our research appears in top publication venues and our work’s impact on many millions of customers features in the history of research collaborations with Microsoft Excel, the Microsoft Wall of Fame, and even XKCD 2453.

We have active lines of research applying LLMs to spreadsheets, including an award-winning paper at CHI’23 on generating spreadsheet computations from natural language, and a new report on co-audit: tools to help humans double-check AI-generated content.?

Our team owns Excel Labs, which showcases experimental features arising from our research,?including the Advanced Formula Environment and the Python Editor. Your research could release in Excel Labs to get feedback from users at scale. ?

This is a time of great change brought about by LLMs. This role will involve building experiences using LLMs for spreadsheet-like end-user programming. It is open to a broad range of applicable technical backgrounds which result in the experience and ability to build tools with generative AI.?

For full details and how to apply: click here