Peter Lee

Dr. Peter Lee is President of Microsoft Research where he leads and incubates new research-powered products and lines of business in areas such as artificial intelligence, computing foundations, health, and life sciences.

Before joining Microsoft in 2010, he was at DARPA, where he established a new technology office that created operational capabilities in machine learning, data science, and computational social science. Prior to that, he was a professor and the head of the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University.

Dr. Lee has extensive experience in managing the process of going from basic research to commercial impact. Past examples include the deep neural networks for simultaneous language translation in Skype, next-generation IoT technologies, and innovative silicon and post-silicon computer architectures for Microsoft’s cloud. He also has a history of advancing more “out of the box” technical efforts, such as experimental under-sea datacenters, augmented-reality experiences for HoloLens and VR devices, digital storage in DNA, and social chatbots such as XiaoIce and Tay. As a thought leader, he has spoken and written widely on technology trends and policies, spanning the fields of computing technology, healthcare, and innovation ecosystem. With Carey Goldberg and Dr. Isaac Kohane, Dr. Lee is also the coauthor of the best-selling book, “The AI Revolution in Medicine: GPT-4 and Beyond.”

Dr. Lee is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and serves on the boards of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, the Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine, and the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine. He served on President Obama’s Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity and has testified before both the US House Science and Technology Committee and the US Senate Commerce Committee. In 2024, Dr. Lee was named by TIME magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in health and life sciences.