“Research in a Box” Virtual Roundtable

April 30, 2025

Roundtable
Virtual

Overview

The “Research in a Box” virtual roundtable on Wednesday, April 30th, from 12:00–1:30 PM ET, is designed to help industrial organizations of all types and sizes build successful computing research programs. This forum will foster open discussion and the sharing of experiences in establishing research collaborations across industry, academia, and government.

Key topics will include:

Impactful strategies for initiating and managing research partnerships.
Navigating intellectual property and legal considerations.
Aligning stakeholder interests and expectations.
Overcoming common challenges.

With perspectives from startups, leaders in large companies, university researchers, and government lab representatives, this roundtable will explore best practices and lessons learned to help industrial organizations establish productive research engagements. Insights gathered will shape the development of a “Research in a Box” whitepaper resource, supporting industry-academic-government collaborations for companies looking to grow their research initiatives.

Please click HERE to register to attend.

Speakers

Jaime Teevan is Chief Scientist and Technical Fellow at Microsoft, where she is responsible for driving research-backed innovation in the company’s core products. Jaime is world-renowned for her research into productivity and personalized search, and was recognized by TIME as one of the top 100 people to play an instrumental role in AI development and societal advancement. She led the creation of M365 Copilot by integrating AI into Microsoft products, invented the first personalized search algorithm used by Bing, and coordinated the company’s hybrid work research during the pandemic. Previously she was Technical Advisor to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Jaime is an ACM Fellow and a member of the SIGIR and CHI Academies. She holds a Ph.D. in AI from MIT and a B.S. from Yale, and is an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington.

Claire Vishik is focusing on a portfolio of startups and is also an independent consultant with projects in the US, Europe, and Asia. In the past, Claire was an Intel Fellow and group CTO, and prior to joining Intel, she held leadership positions in Schlumberger Laboratory for Computer Science and AT&T Labs. Claire worked in several areas, such as Artificial Intelligence (from rule based systems of the 1990s to LLMs and SLMs), hardware and network security, Trusted Computing, privacy enhancing technologies, and some aspects of cryptography. She also published on related global policy, trade and research collaboration issues. Claire was appointed to numerous advisory boards and boards of directors for technical organizations and government agencies, e.g., the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) and TDL (Trust in Digital Life), ENISA, FCC CSRIC VIII, CyBoK, or UK Royal Society Cybersecurity effort. She led or co-led many initiatives, for example, NSTAC report on software assurance, IEEE blockchain TC, NIST CPS Public Working Group, or Cyber Leap Year Summit. Claire received her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin.