Jonathan Lester

About

Jonathan Lester is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research in the Biomedical Computing Development team. He has worked on the development of hardware/software sensing platforms at Intel Research, MIT Media Lab, and Nokia Research Center. While at Intel Research he co-developed the Mobile Sensing Platform (MSP) to test out early ideas on embedded activity recognition using sensors and data sources to allow computers to infer information about a user’s behavior and to measure physical activity. Dr. Lester designs and manufactures sensor enabled low power systems to allow machines to better understand the world and to improve the lives of individuals. He also works on the development of new sensing technologies using optical sensing, microelectronics, and novel materials. Dr. Lester graduated with a doctorate in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington in 2010 co-advised by Blake Hannaford of UW Electrical Engineering and Gaetano Borriello of UW Computer Science and Engineering.