Peter Lee (born November 30, 1960) is an American

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. He is Corporate Vice President and head of

Microsoft Research Microsoft Research (MSR) is the research subsidiary of Microsoft. It was created in 1991 by Richard Rashid, Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold with the intent to advance state-of-the-art computing and solve difficult world problems through technologi ...

. Previously, he was the head of the Transformational Convergence Technology Office of the

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and the chair of the Computer Science Department at

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

. His research focuses on

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and

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. Lee received his PhD degree from the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

in May 1987 with thesis titled ''The automatic generation of realistic compilers from high-level semantic descriptions''. He is a

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Career

Microsoft Research was founded in 1991.Matt Weinberg, August 15, 201
When Microsoft needs a tech 'miracle,' this is the team that answers the call
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'' A longtime "Microsoft Researcher," Peter Lee became the organization's head in 2013. In 2014, the organization had 1,100 advanced researchers "working in 55 areas of study in a dozen labs worldwide."Janet I. Tu, July 10, 201
Innovator instigator Peter Lee shakes up Microsoft Research
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'' From 2015 to 2020, Lee was the head of Microsoft Research NExT (for New Experiences and Technologies) and Microsoft Healthcare. Since 2020 he leads the combined MSR Labs, AI, NExT, Healthcare, and other incubation efforts.

Students

Greg Morrisett John Gregory Morrisett is the Jack and Rilla Neafsey Dean and Vice Provost of Cornell Tech. He previously was Dean of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science at Cornell University. Morrisett was the Allen B. Cutting Professor of Compute ...

Scott Draves Scott Draves is the inventor of Fractal Flames and the leader of the distributed computing project Electric Sheep. He also invented patch-based texture synthesis and published the first implementation of this class of algorithms. He is also a ...

George Necula George Ciprian Necula is a Romanian computer scientist, engineer at Google, and former professor at the University of California, Berkeley who does research in the area of programming languages and software engineering, with a particular focus on ...

References

External links

Microsoft.com: Peter Lee research information

CMU.edu: Peter Lee webpage

CMU.edu: CMU curriculum vitae for Peter Lee
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