Peter Lee

Dr. Peter Lee is President, Microsoft Science. His responsibility is to accelerate the pace of discovery in the physical, biological, and medical sciences through the use of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. Previously, he led the worldwide laboratories of Microsoft Research, and before joining Microsoft in 2010, he established a new technology office at DARPA, creating operational capabilities in machine learning, data science, and computational social science. From 1987 to 2010, Dr. Lee was a professor and the head of the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and serves on the boards of several institutions in AI and medicine, including the Board of Trustees of the Mayo Clinic and the Board of Directors of the Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine. He served on President Obama’s Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity and has testified before both the US House and US Senate committees. With Carey Goldberg and Dr. Isaac Kohane, he is the coauthor of the book, “The AI Revolution in Medicine: GPT-4 and Beyond.” In 2024, Peter Lee was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in health and life sciences.