Michael Murray
Senior Researcher, Physically Embodied AI And Robotics at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Murray is a Senior Researcher in Physically Embodied AI and Robotics at Microsoft Research with 15 years of experience spanning startups, cloud giants, and academic research. He holds a PhD and MS in Computer Science from the University of Washington, where his Human Centered Robotics work bridged real-world robot autonomy and human interaction. Earlier roles include building perception and autonomy systems for Amazon Prime Air and co-founding a Y Combinator-backed startup, giving him rare product-to-research fluency. Michael’s background blends early web and production engineering at Google and msnbc.com with deep robotics research, enabling pragmatic solutions that scale from prototypes to deployed systems. Based in Seattle, he brings an uncommon mix of entrepreneurial grit, production-grade vision systems experience, and academic rigor to embodied AI challenges.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of WashingtonY CombinatorBachelors of Science Computer Science, Bachelors of Science Computer Science at Neumont College of Computer Science
Stackoverflow
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authentication
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rubygems
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event-handling
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regex
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Github Skills (102)
python10
jquery10
nlp10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
rubygems9
duckduckgo9
javascript9
event-handling9
golang9
html9
orm-library9
transformer9
dialog9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
play-components/play-fbconnect
Nov 2010 - Oct 2011
Contributions:28 commits in 11 months
facebook-authenticationauthenticationplay-frameworkfacebookapplication-framework
murz/kubernetes
Nov 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:4 pushes in 8 months
gcpcontainer-clusterdockerkubernetescluster-manager
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