Peter Lee
President, Microsoft Research
Peter Lee is president of Microsoft Research, incubating new research-powered products and business lines in areas such as artificial intelligence, computing foundations, health, and life sciences. Previously, he was at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, where he established a new technology office that created operational capabilities in machine learning, data science, and computational social science. Lee was also professor and head of the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and is on multiple boards of directors, including institutes of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and others. He served on President Obama’s Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity and led studies for PCAST and the National Academies. He is coauthor of the book, "The AI Revolution in Medicine: GPT-4 and Beyond."