<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Microsoft | Stefano Blando</title><link>https://stefano-blando.github.io/en/tags/microsoft/</link><atom:link href="https://stefano-blando.github.io/en/tags/microsoft/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><description>Microsoft</description><generator>HugoBlox Kit (https://hugoblox.com)</generator><language>en-US</language><lastBuildDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><image><url>https://stefano-blando.github.io/media/icon_hu_8d0dee6c10a3c598.png</url><title>Microsoft</title><link>https://stefano-blando.github.io/en/tags/microsoft/</link></image><item><title>RiskSentinel for Microsoft AI Dev Days 2026</title><link>https://stefano-blando.github.io/en/blog/microsoft-ai-dev-days-risksentinel/</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://stefano-blando.github.io/en/blog/microsoft-ai-dev-days-risksentinel/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RiskSentinel&lt;/strong&gt; is the project I built for the &lt;strong&gt;Microsoft AI Dev Days Hackathon 2026&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The core idea was to create a system that could make systemic risk more explorable and more tangible: instead of treating contagion as an abstract output in a paper or a notebook, I wanted an interface where shocks could be launched, propagated, compared, and interpreted in real time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The project combines &lt;strong&gt;network science&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;contagion modeling&lt;/strong&gt;, and &lt;strong&gt;agentic AI&lt;/strong&gt; on top of research-grade financial network data covering &lt;strong&gt;210 S&amp;amp;P 500 stocks&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;3,081 daily snapshots&lt;/strong&gt;. Under the hood, it integrates three propagation models, interactive network analytics with Streamlit and Plotly, and an agentic workflow built with &lt;strong&gt;Microsoft Agent Framework&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Azure OpenAI&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What I like most about this project is that it sits exactly at the boundary between my research interests and practical prototyping: financial networks, complex systems, decision support, and AI agents all in the same tool.&lt;/p&gt;
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