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Neel Joshi

Also known as N Joshi, N. Joshi, Neel S Joshi

Neel Joshi is a Microsoft Research manager whose work spans computer vision, interactive AI, and multimodal reasoning. He completed computer-science degrees at Brown, Stanford, and UC San Diego, and joined Microsoft Research in 2008. His work ranges from Cliplets and active learning for camera-trap surveys to HoloAssist and Eureka. In March 2026, he coauthored the Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B report; as of October 2026, he is a Senior Principal Research Manager who manages Microsoft Research's Computer Vision Group.

Works
115
Citations
6,403
h-index
40
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Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 22 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2008

    Education and Microsoft Research

    He holds an Sc.B. in computer science from Brown and an M.S. from Stanford. In 2008, he earns a computer-science Ph.D. at UC San Diego and joins Microsoft Research.

  2. 2012

    Cliplets for moving images

    In 2012, he coauthors Microsoft Research's Cliplets report, a project that composes still and moving images into visual sequences. The work produces a public app.

  3. 2019

    AI for camera-trap surveys

    In 2019, he coauthors a deep active-learning system that combines machine and human intelligence to identify and count animals in camera-trap images while reducing manual work.

  4. 2023

    The HoloAssist dataset

    In 2023, he coauthors the ICCV paper HoloAssist, an egocentric dataset for interactive AI assistants. It studies how two people collaborate on physical tasks through mixed-reality headsets and verbal guidance.

  5. September 2024

    Eureka evaluation framework

    In September 2024, he coauthors Eureka, an open-source framework that standardizes evaluations of large foundation models beyond single-score reporting and rankings.

  6. April 2025

    The Phi-4 reasoning report

    In April 2025, he coauthors the Phi-4-reasoning technical report, which introduces a 14-billion-parameter reasoning model for complex tasks.

  7. March 2026

    Phi-4 multimodal reasoning

    In March 2026, he coauthors the Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B technical report, which presents a 15-billion-parameter open-weight multimodal reasoning model.

  8. As of October 2026

    Computer Vision Group manager

    As of October 2026, he is a Senior Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research Redmond and manages its Computer Vision Group. His work covers computer vision, machine learning, computer graphics, and human-computer interaction.

Career

  1. Since 2008Microsoft ResearchSenior Principal Research Manager
  2. 2009–2026Microsoft

Education

  1. 2008University of California, San DiegoPhD
  2. Brown UniversitySc.B. in computer science
  3. Stanford UniversityM.S.

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

Most-cited works

  1. High performance imaging using large camera arrays2005 · ACM Transactions on Graphics · 1,057 citations
  2. PSF estimation using sharp edge prediction2008 · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 583 citationsWith Richard Szeliski
  3. Single Image Deblurring Using Motion Density Functions2010 · Lecture notes in computer science · 353 citationsWith C. Lawrence Zitnick
  4. Image deblurring using inertial measurement sensors2010 · ACM Transactions on Graphics · 276 citationsWith C. Lawrence Zitnick, Richard Szeliski and Sing Bing Kang
  5. Learning a blind measure of perceptual image quality2011 · 258 citations

From OpenAlex, as of 21 October 2026.

  1. Among employers with 30+ full-time cases, OpenAI leads primary technical role H-1B pay at $310,000, and Amazon, Google and Microsoft file 57% of all casesIncludes Microsoft. Across 440,669 certified US H-1B filings from 44 employers (FY2020–FY2026), OpenAI leads primary technical role base pay at $310,000 and xAI leads overall base pay at $290,000.
  2. 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 each year from 1955 to 2025, tracing the shift from university labs to companies.
  3. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Microsoft. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  4. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes Microsoft. We estimate that Google holds the highest combined h-index at 8,016, while universities account for 73% of the deduplicated total across AI organizations.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. Neel Joshi at Microsoft Research microsoft.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  2. Neel Joshi's Publications neelj.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  3. About Microsoft Research Cliplets neelj.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  4. A deep active learning system for species identification and counting in camera trap images arxiv.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  5. HoloAssist holoassist.github.io. Checked 20 October 2026.
  6. Eureka: Evaluating and understanding progress in AI microsoft.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  7. Phi-4-reasoning Technical Report microsoft.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  8. Phi-4-reasoning-vision and the lessons of training a multimodal reasoning model microsoft.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  9. Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B Technical Report microsoft.com. Checked 20 October 2026.