Peter Lee

Peter Lee (born November 30, 1960) is an American computer scientist. He is President and head of Microsoft Research. 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. His research focuses on software security and reliability.

Lee received his PhD degree from the University of Michigan in May 1987 with thesis He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Career Microsoft Research was founded in 1991.

A longtime "Microsoft Researcher," From 2015 to 2020, Lee was the head of Microsoft Research NExT (for New Experiences and Technologies) and Microsoft Healthcare.

Students Greg Morrisett Scott Draves George Necula