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Tian Xie
Principal Research Manager
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MICROSOFT
Tian Xie is a principal research manager and project lead at Microsoft Research AI for Science. He leads a highly interdisciplinary team of researchers, engineers, and program managers to develop the foundational AI capabilities for materials discovery. He leads the development of MatterGen, an AI generator that discovers novel materials. His team also develops MatterSim, an AI emulator that accelerates the simulation of material properties. Before joining Microsoft, he was a postdoc in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT from 2020 to 2022, co-advised by Tommi Jaakkola and Regina Barzilay. He got his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at MIT in 2020, advised by Jeffrey C. Grossman. His experience also includes research internships at DeepMind and Google X. Tian's most noticeable work before Microsoft includes the development of CDVAE and CGCNN.
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