Gustavo Soares
Principal Research Manager | Leading Agentic AI Research for Excel Agent at Microsoft
- Role
- Principal Research Manager at Microsoft
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Gustavo Soares
I am a Principal Research Manager at Microsoft leading the research behind Excel Agent—an intelligent spreadsheet agent that plans, reasons, and builds refreshable analytical workflows directly inside Excel.My team operates at the intersection of agentic AI, LLMs, program synthesis, evaluation, and human-AI interaction, transforming research ideas into production features used by millions of people. Our recent work includes foundational research powering Agent Mode in Excel, enabling end-to-end automation across tables, formulas, pivot tables, charts, and data.I’m currently hiring researchers to help define the next wave of AI in Excel and Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Experience
Principal Research Manager
Sep 2022 — Present · Redmond, WA, US
Education
Universidade Federal de Sergipe
3, Computer Science
2003 — 2008
Universidade Federal de Campina Grande
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Software Engineering
2010 — 2014
Universidade Federal de Campina Grande
Master, Software Engineering
2009 — 2010
Skills
- Linux
- Hibernate
- Subversion
- Distributed Systems
- Uml
- Cvs
- Postgresql
- Java Enterprise Edition
- Git
- Junit
- Unified Modeling Language (Uml)
- Software Engineering
- Design Patterns
- Software Development
- Python
- Scrum
- Tomcat
- Algorithms
- Computer Science
- Java
- Test Driven Development
- Eclipse
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