PeopleofSuperintelligence

Lab leader

Saleema Amershi

Saleema Amershi is a researcher whose work spans human-AI interaction, interactive machine learning, and multi-agent systems. Her early work modeled exploratory learning interactions, and she earned a CSE PhD at the University of Washington in 2012. She led development of human-AI design guidelines and coauthored AutoGen Studio, Magentic-One, and Magentic-UI. A 2009 paper she coauthored with Cristina Conati received the 2022 Educational Data Mining Test of Time Award. As of October 2026, she is a Partner Research Manager at Microsoft AI Frontiers and leads the Magentic Team.

Now at
Microsoft
Works
83
Citations
7,743
h-index
32

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2009–2012

    Modeling exploratory learning

    In 2009, while studying for a master's degree, she coauthors a paper with Cristina Conati that proposes a data-driven method for modeling exploratory learning interactions. She completes a CSE PhD at the University of Washington in 2012.

  2. 2014–2019

    Human-AI interaction guidelines

    In 2014, she coauthors Power to the People: The Role of Humans in Interactive Machine Learning, which argues that users should take part at every stage of system design. In 2019, she leads development of 18 human-AI interaction guidelines presented at CHI.

  3. 2022

    A test-of-time award

    Her 2009 paper with Cristina Conati receives the 2022 Educational Data Mining Test of Time Award for early work on AI-based personalized support in exploratory learning.

  4. 2023

    AutoGen Studio workflows

    In December 2023, she coauthors AutoGen Studio, a point-and-click interface for defining agents and multi-agent workflows with AutoGen.

  5. 2024

    A generalist agentic system

    In 2024, she coauthors Magentic-One, an open-source multi-agent system whose Orchestrator plans tasks, tracks progress, and directs specialized agents to use a browser, local files, or code.

  6. July 2025

    A human-agent interface

    In July 2025, she coauthors Magentic-UI, an open-source web interface for human-agent interaction with support for web browsing, code execution, and file manipulation.

  7. August 2026

    Reinforcing social reasoning

    In August 2026, she coauthors From Passive Delegates to Strategic Negotiators, a study on social reasoning in small language models with SocialRL.

  8. As of October 2026

    Leading the Magentic Team

    As of October 2026, she is a Partner Research Manager at Microsoft AI Frontiers and leads the Magentic Team, which builds AI agents and multi-agent platforms.

Sources and credits

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  1. Dr. Conati receives 2022 Educational Data Mining Test of Time Award cs.ubc.ca. Checked 15 October 2026.
  2. CSE’s Saleema Amershi wins UW Graduate School 2013 Distinguished Dissertation Award! news.cs.washington.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  3. Power to the People: The Role of Humans in Interactive Machine Learning ojs.aaai.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  4. Guidelines for human-AI interaction design microsoft.com. Checked 15 October 2026.
  5. AutoGen Studio: Interactively Explore Multi-Agent Workflows autogenhub.github.io. Checked 15 October 2026.
  6. Magentic-One: A Generalist Multi-Agent System for Solving Complex Tasks arxiv.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  7. Magentic-UI: Towards Human-in-the-loop Agentic Systems arxiv.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  8. Saleema Amershi at Microsoft Research: Publications microsoft.com. Checked 15 October 2026.
  9. Saleema Amershi at Microsoft Research microsoft.com. Checked 15 October 2026.