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Researcher

Adam Fourney

Adam Fourney is a Senior Principal Researcher on the Human-AI eXperiences team at Microsoft Research AI Frontiers, where he studies AI agents and their collaboration with people. At the University of Waterloo, he completed a master's thesis on gesture-controlled presentations in 2009 and a PhD dissertation on coordinated web and software work in 2015; the dissertation received the Bill Buxton Award for best Canadian HCI dissertation. He contributed to AutoGen, AutoGen Studio, and Magentic-One, and co-authored the AutoGen v0.4 announcement in 2025. In 2026, he co-authored SentinelBench, an open-source benchmark for long-running monitoring agents.

Works
94
Citations
3,721
h-index
23
Badges

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 18 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2009

    A gesture-based thesis

    At the University of Waterloo, he completes a master's thesis in 2009 on controlling electronic presentations through gesture.

  2. 2015

    A Waterloo HCI dissertation

    His 2015 PhD dissertation at Waterloo examines how people coordinate web search, tutorials, and software work. It receives the Bill Buxton Award for the best Canadian HCI dissertation.

  3. By 2016

    A Microsoft Research role

    After an internship at Microsoft Research, he is a full-time researcher there by 2016.

  4. 2023

    Introducing AutoGen

    He contributes to AutoGen, an open-source framework for large language model applications using multi-agent conversations, introduced by Microsoft Research in September 2023.

  5. 2024

    AutoGen Studio and Magentic-One

    He co-authors AutoGen Studio, a no-code tool for prototyping, debugging, and evaluating multi-agent workflows in August 2024. He also co-authors Magentic-One, an open-source agentic system for complex tasks, introduced in November 2024.

  6. January 2025

    Releasing AutoGen v0.4

    In January 2025, he co-authors Microsoft Research's AutoGen v0.4 announcement, which describes an asynchronous, event-driven architecture for dynamic and scalable agent workflows.

  7. June 2026

    Benchmarking long-running agents

    He co-authors SentinelBench, an open-source benchmark for long-running monitoring agents, in June 2026.

  8. As of October 2026

    Senior Principal Researcher

    As of October 2026, he is a Senior Principal Researcher on Microsoft Research's Human-AI eXperiences team at AI Frontiers, where he builds and studies AI agents and how they can collaborate with people.

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Career

  1. NowMicrosoft ResearchResearcher
  2. 2016–2025Microsoft

Education

  1. 2015University of WaterlooPhD
  2. 2009University of WaterlooMaster’s thesis

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

Most-cited works

  1. Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction2019 · CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · 2,396 citationsWith Daniel S. Weld, Eric Horvitz, Jaime Teevan and Saleema Amershi
  2. Reading Between the Lines: Modeling User Behavior and Costs in AI-Assisted Programming2024 · CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · 113 citationsWith Eric Horvitz
  3. Exploring the Role of Conversational Cues in Guided Task Support with Virtual Assistants2018 · CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · 83 citations
  4. Geographic and Temporal Trends in Fake News Consumption During the 2016 US Presidential Election2017 · 67 citationsWith Eric Horvitz
  5. Characterizing the Internet Research Agency’s Social Media Operations During the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election using Linguistic Analyses2018 · 54 citationsWith Eric Horvitz

From OpenAlex, as of 18 October 2026.

  1. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers rose from 2% to 33%Includes Microsoft. We estimate where leading AI researchers worked when their most-cited papers appeared. The company share rose from 2% in 1975–1979 to 33% in 2020–2024.
  2. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes Microsoft. Our estimates of combined and median h-index at AI organizations, using current affiliations and OpenAlex records.
  3. Google alumni founded or led 77 other organizations, the most among the labs we compareIncludes Microsoft. We trace 177 organizations founded or led by AI lab alumni, and 186 career moves between the labs.
  4. Google had the most people shaping AI every year from 2014 to 2025Includes Microsoft. Our estimates of which organizations employed the most people shaping AI from 1962 to 2025, with a year-by-year chart.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. Adam Fourney > Publications adamfourney.com. Checked 18 October 2026.
  2. Adam Fourney - GI`16 conferences.graphicsinterface.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  3. AutoGen: Enabling next-generation large language model applications microsoft.com. Checked 18 October 2026.
  4. AutoGen Studio: A No-Code Developer Tool for Building and Debugging Multi-Agent Systems arxiv.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  5. Magentic-One: A Generalist Multi-Agent System for Solving Complex Tasks arxiv.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  6. Adam Fourney at Microsoft Research: News & Features microsoft.com. Checked 18 October 2026.
  7. SentinelBench: A Benchmark for Long-Running Monitoring Agents arxiv.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  8. Adam Fourney at Microsoft Research microsoft.com. Checked 18 October 2026.