People
People at Microsoft
74 people in the USASI People directory whose sourced profiles document a current or earlier role at Microsoft; 24 of them in a current role. Current roles are listed first, then alphabetically. Each profile covers public professional work only. This is not a ranking.
Adam Fourney
Senior Principal Researcher, Human-AI eXperiences (HAX) group, AI Frontiers
Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research; author of MarkItDown and first author of Magentic-One
Andreas C. Müller
Principal Research SDE, Gray Systems Lab
Core developer and co-maintainer of scikit-learn; Principal Research SDE at Microsoft
Bin Xiao
Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Superintelligence team
Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft; first author of Florence-2 and former lead of Florence models
Charles Lamanna
Executive Vice President, Copilot, Agents, and Platform
Executive Vice President, Copilot, Agents, and Platform at Microsoft
Christopher Bishop
Technical Fellow and founder of Microsoft Research AI for Science
Microsoft Technical Fellow, founder of Microsoft Research AI for Science, and machine learning textbook author
Eric Horvitz
Chief Scientific Officer
Chief Scientific Officer of Microsoft and former director of Microsoft Research
Furu Wei
Distinguished Scientist and Vice President; Chief Scientist of Microsoft Research Asia, leading the GenAI group
Distinguished Scientist and Chief Scientist of Microsoft Research Asia; senior author of the BitNet papers
Hsiao-Wuen Hon
Emeritus Researcher
Emeritus Researcher at Microsoft Research; former Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia
Jacob Andreou
EVP, Copilot
Executive Vice President, Copilot at Microsoft; former CVP of Product and Growth at Microsoft AI
Jay Parikh
Executive Vice President, CoreAI
Executive Vice President of CoreAI at Microsoft; former global head of engineering at Facebook
Jianfeng Gao
Technical Fellow & Corporate Vice President
Microsoft Technical Fellow and CVP setting direction for AI models; co-founder of MSR's Deep Learning Group
John Langford
Partner Researcher Manager
Partner Researcher Manager at Microsoft Research; principal developer of Vowpal Wabbit
Jyoti Aneja
Member of Technical Staff, AI Frontiers team
Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft Research AI Frontiers; co-lead of Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B
Katja Hofmann
Partner Research Manager, co-leading the People-Centric AI research area
Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research Cambridge who led the Muse (WHAM) gameplay model project
Kevin Scott
Chief Technology Officer
Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft; earlier led engineering and operations at LinkedIn
Luca Soldaini
Member of the technical staff
Former co-lead of Ai2's Olmo open-model project; now a member of the technical staff at Microsoft AI
Mark Russinovich
Chief Technology Officer and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure
CTO and Technical Fellow for Microsoft Azure; creator of Sysinternals
Mustafa Suleyman
Executive Vice President and CEO, Microsoft AI
Co-founder of DeepMind and Inflection AI, now CEO of Microsoft AI pursuing humanist superintelligence
Peter Lee
President, Microsoft Science
President of Microsoft Science; previously led Microsoft Research's worldwide laboratories
Rangan Majumder
Vice President of Search and Artificial Intelligence
Vice President of Search and AI at Microsoft; co-author of the MS MARCO reading comprehension dataset paper
Satya Nadella
Chief Executive Officer
Microsoft's Chairman and CEO, who led its shift to the cloud and brought Copilot and AI to Microsoft
Scott Hanselman
VP and Member of Technical Staff
Programmer, teacher, and podcaster; host of Hanselminutes and VP at Microsoft and GitHub
Weizhu Chen
Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President, leading a modeling team
Technical Fellow and CVP at Microsoft AI; senior author of LoRA, DeBERTa and Samba
Yao Qian
Principal Researcher
Principal Researcher in Microsoft's Speech and Dialog Research Group; co-author of WavLM
Abdelrahman Mohamed
Researcher (2014–2017) (earlier role)
Speech researcher; co-author of wav2vec 2.0 and HuBERT at Facebook AI Research
Abhimanyu Das
Researcher (earlier role)
Google Principal Research Scientist leading structured-data models such as TimesFM; TimesFM paper first author
Ami Vora
Built developer tools (early career) (earlier role)
Chief Product Officer of Anthropic, leading the product organization behind Claude
Arvind Jain
Started career at Microsoft (earlier role)
Founder and CEO of Glean, the enterprise AI platform; earlier co-founded Rubrik and led teams at Google
Ben Thompson
Former employee (strategy, developer relations, and marketing for Windows) (earlier role)
Author of Stratechery, analysis of the strategy and business of technology and media
Bill Dolan
Partner Researcher Manager, managing the Natural Language Processing group (as described in 2022) (earlier role)
Managed Microsoft Research's NLP group; co-author of DialoGPT and the Microsoft Research Paraphrase Corpus
Charlie Bell
Executive Vice President of Security, Compliance, Identity and Management (earlier role)
Former AWS senior vice president and Microsoft security executive; Tenable board member since October 2026
David Bau
Member of the Trident team for Internet Explorer 4 (earlier role)
Northeastern professor studying neural-network internals; Bau's lab launched the NDIF project
David Grangier
Machine learning research (2012–2014) (earlier role)
Machine learning researcher at Apple; co-author of the fairseq sequence modeling toolkit
David Talby
Built and ran web-scale software platforms and teams for Bing (earlier role)
CEO of John Snow Labs and creator of the open-source Spark NLP library; formerly at Microsoft and Amazon
Dong Yu
Principal Researcher (at Microsoft from 1998 until 2017) (earlier role)
VP of AI Foundations at Capital One; former Microsoft Research principal researcher; first author on CNTK
Eric Hartford
Former employee; the role is not stated (earlier role)
Founder of Quixi.AI and creator of the Dolphin and Samantha open models; formerly at Microsoft and AWS
Gergely Orosz
Software engineer (earlier role)
Writer of The Pragmatic Engineer, a newsletter and podcast about software engineering at tech companies
Guolin Ke
Senior Researcher, Machine Learning Group (earlier role)
Creator of LightGBM; SVP of AI at DP Technology and former senior researcher at Microsoft Research Asia
Hoifung Poon
General Manager, Microsoft Health Futures (as introduced in February 2025) (earlier role)
Introduced in 2025 as general manager of Microsoft Health Futures; co-author of LLaVA-Med and Medprompt
James McCaffrey
Microsoft Research staff (per the August 2019 MSDN Magazine author bio) (earlier role)
Software engineer and longtime MSDN Magazine Test Run columnist; worked for Microsoft Research
Jared Palmer
VP of Engineering at Xbox (past) (earlier role)
VP of Engineering at Cognition; created Vercel's AI SDK and v0 while VP of AI at Vercel
Jeff Barr
Program Manager (1997–2000), Visual Basic and HTML editing tools (earlier role)
VP and Chief Evangelist at AWS; started the AWS News Blog in 2004
Ju-Chieh Chou
Research Intern (2024) (earlier role)
TTIC PhD student in speech and language processing; former research intern at Meta and Microsoft
Kai-Fu Lee
Global Vice President; founded Microsoft Research Asia after joining Microsoft Research in 1998 as director of advanced interactive systems (earlier role)
Founder and CEO of 01.AI; developed CMU's Sphinx speech recognizer; earlier at Apple, Microsoft and Google
Kaiming He
Researcher (2011–2016) (earlier role)
First author of ResNet, Mask R-CNN and MAE; MIT associate professor and part-time scientist at Google DeepMind
Karén Simonyan
Chief Scientist, Microsoft AI (announced March 2024) (earlier role)
First author of the VGG networks paper; joined Microsoft AI as Chief Scientist in 2024 from Inflection AI
Kevin Stratvert
Product manager (earlier role)
Creator of step-by-step tutorials on AI tools, Microsoft 365, Windows, and other software
Kristina Toutanova
Researcher (before 2017) (earlier role)
Research scientist at Google DeepMind and University of Washington affiliate faculty; co-author of BERT
Li Deng
Chief Scientist of AI, founder of the Deep Learning Technology Center, and Partner Research Manager (2000–2017) (earlier role)
Former Chief Scientist of AI at Microsoft and founder of its Deep Learning Technology Center
Liliang Ren
Former affiliation, listed on Ren's site (past) (earlier role)
Member of Technical Staff at Thinking Machines Lab; first author of SambaY and Samba
Manuvir Das
Original engineering leader behind Microsoft Azure (earlier role)
Stonepeak operating partner; as NVIDIA's Head of Enterprise Computing, launched NVIDIA AI Enterprise
Margaret Mitchell
Researcher, vision-to-language generation (earlier role)
Researcher and Chief Ethics Scientist at Hugging Face; first author of Model Cards for Model Reporting
Michael Auli
Researcher working on early neural machine translation and neural dialogue models (earlier role)
Former Principal Research Scientist/Director at Meta FAIR; last author of wav2vec 2.0, fairseq, and MMS
Ming Zhou
Vice President; led natural language processing research (1999–2020) (earlier role)
Founder and CEO of Langboat; former Vice President of Microsoft Research Asia, where Zhou led NLP research
Misha Bilenko
Listed among the authors of the Phi-3 Technical Report, which is credited to Microsoft (earlier role)
Co-author of Microsoft's Phi-3 technical report on small language models that run on a phone
Paul Smith
Senior leadership roles (earlier role)
Chief Commercial Officer at Anthropic; previously Chief Commercial Officer at ServiceNow
Peggy Johnson
Executive Vice President of Business Development (six years) (earlier role)
CEO of Agility Robotics, maker of the Digit humanoid robot; former CEO of Magic Leap
Piotr Dollár
Research at Microsoft Research, before joining FAIR in 2014 (earlier role)
Research director at Meta's FAIR; co-author of Segment Anything, COCO and Mask R-CNN; SAM 3 project lead
Pushmeet Kohli
Director of Research, Cognition group (earlier role)
Vice President at Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Google Cloud; AlphaFold co-author
Rahul Patil
Senior engineering leadership roles (earlier role)
Chief Technology Officer at Anthropic; previously CTO of Stripe
Ronen Eldan
Listed with a Microsoft Research affiliation on the 2023 TinyStories and "Who's Harry Potter?" papers (earlier role)
First author of TinyStories and co-author of Microsoft's Phi small language model reports
Ross Girshick
Research scientist (2014–2015) (earlier role)
First author of R-CNN and Detectron; co-author of Segment Anything; formerly at FAIR, Microsoft and Ai2
Sanyuan Chen
Research Intern, Natural Language Computing Group (from May 2020) (earlier role)
Research scientist at Meta FAIR; first author of WavLM and co-first author of VALL-E
Saurabh Tiwary
Corporate Vice President and Technical Fellow; led the Microsoft Turing group (earlier role)
Google vice president; former Microsoft CVP and Technical Fellow who led the Microsoft Turing group
Sébastien Bubeck
Vice President, Microsoft GenAI (earlier role)
OpenAI author on gpt-oss and GPT-5 science work; earlier a Microsoft GenAI vice president and Phi co-author
Su Lin Blodgett
Principal researcher, Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics in AI (FATE) group (previously postdoctoral researcher) (earlier role)
Researcher on the social implications and evaluation of NLP; formerly at Microsoft Research
T.R. Vishwanath
Worked on developer tools and runtimes (earlier role)
Co-founder and CTO of Glean, overseeing integrations with enterprise data sources
Xiaodong He
Principal Researcher and Head of the Deep Learning Technology Center (DLTC) (earlier role)
Senior Vice President of JD Group; former head of Microsoft Research's Deep Learning Technology Center
Xingyao Wang
Intern working on unit-test generation (2022) (earlier role)
Co-founder and Chief AI Officer of All Hands AI; first author of the OpenHands and CodeAct papers
Xu Tan
Principal Research Manager (earlier role)
Research VP of Multimodality at Moonshot AI; formerly Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research Asia
Xuedong Huang
Azure AI CTO and Technical Fellow; began Microsoft's speech technology group in 1993 (earlier role)
Chief Technology Officer of Zoom; former Azure AI CTO and Technical Fellow at Microsoft
Yi Ren
Intern (August 2018 to February 2019) (earlier role)
First author of FastSpeech and FastSpeech 2; former MSRA intern; leads video model research at HeyGen
Yuanzhi Li
Listed with a Microsoft Research affiliation on the 2023 TinyStories paper (earlier role)
First author of the phi-1.5 report and co-author of TinyStories and Microsoft's other Phi model reports
Zhuohan Li
Research Intern (June 2017–March 2019) (earlier role)
Co-creator and lead maintainer of vLLM; AI Research Scientist at Meta focusing on inference
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