Peter Lee (computer scientist)

Peter Lee (born November 30, 1960) is an American computer scientist. He is Corporate Vice President and head of Microsoft Research.[1] Previously, he was the head of the Transformational Convergence Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the chair of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University.[2] His research focuses on software security and reliability.

Lee received his PhD degree from the University of Michigan in May 1987 with thesis[2] titled The automatic generation of realistic compilers from high-level semantic descriptions.[3] He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Career

Microsoft Research was founded in 1991.[4]

A longtime "Microsoft Researcher,"[4] 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."[5] From 2015 to 2020, Lee was the head of Microsoft Research NeXT (for New Experiences and Technologies) and Microsoft Healthcare. [4] Since 2020 he leads the combined MSR Labs, AI, NeXT, Healthcare, and other incubation efforts.

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