current rotation / – present
Microsoft AI Development and Acceleration
Agent harnesses and evaluation tools for faster research iteration.
software engineer / post-trainingMAI
Nicholas Yi.
Building things that learn,
remember, and work.
I'm Nicholas, a software engineer at Microsoft AI Development and Acceleration working on agents, evaluation, and post-training. My work spans conversational memory, graph-based retrieval, and speech accessibility.
I'm interested in how agents remember, how we know they're getting better, and what it takes to make research useful in the real world.
Let it rain. Make yourself at home.
A few things I've worked on
previous rotation / preprint
Stashbird
Helping conversational agents update their memories as conversations change.
Microsoft Research / first rotation / article
GraphRAG for code
Bringing graph-based code retrieval into VS Code.
Started in my first rotation and continued alongside the Stashbird rotation.
co-authorread the field notes
first rotation / hackathon
Staccato
Speech recognition designed to better understand people who stutter.
My brother stutters, so making speech technology more accessible is personal to me.
Team 1st place · Ability Hack Executive Challenge
Microsoft Global Hackathon, 2025
project code
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