Jonathan Larson is a Senior Director at Microsoft Research with a focus on strategy and entrepreneurship through AI. At Microsoft, currently Jonathan leads a research team of developers and data scientists focused on new approaches around LLMs, prompt engineering, and scalable network machine learning. His team pioneered and released a new approach to LLM memory management called GraphRAG (https://github.com/microsoft/graphrag).Jonathan has a background in network machine learning and has shipped a variety of graph machine learning algorithms through Bing, M365 Office, deployment of tools to combat tech fraud, and algorithms / tools to better understand news provenance. Many of the supporting machine learning libraries have been open sourced and are available on GitHub. Previously, he led a team that focused on the intersection of artificial intelligence and business intelligence for scalable interaction with data. The team shipped a suite of new data interfaces through Power BI. Prior to joining Microsoft, Jonathan was Chief Scientist and Technical Fellow at Sotera Defense Solutions on assignment to DARPA, and led a variety of data science and big data efforts across several programs. DARPA programs Jonathan worked on have been featured on CBS’s 60 Minutes, Rolling Stone, SXSW, and TEDx. Jonathan also served as Director of Research and Development at ATS, a natural language processing firm near Seattle. At ATS, he oversaw development of a graph analysis engine product, was Principal Investigator for a Small Business Innovation Research grant, and led a joint research project with Washington State University. Jonathan has also led large-scale data science efforts as a consultant for Google, Zillow, and the US Army. He has started three separate corporations, worked a private funded incubator, and also served as a key contributor at Potomac Fusion, where his contributions helped lead to a successful acquisition by Sotera Defense Solutions.Specialties: Data Science, Software Architecture, Big Data Analytics, Graph Analytics, Graph Embedding & Network Machine Learning, Apache Spark, LLM, AI, GraphRAG