Portrait of Peter Lee

Peter Lee

President,
Microsoft Research

Images & Affiliations

 Images

(opens in new tab) Photo by Dan DeLong and Microsoft

Peter Lee standing in front of a body of water

Affiliations and selected service activities

• Board Member, Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine, 2018-present.

• Board Member, Paul Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), 2018-present.

• Board Member, Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine, 2016-present.

• Member, Advisory Committee for the Computing and Information Science and Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation (NSF/CISE), 2012-present.

• Co-chair, NITRD Working Group for the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Conducted the congressionally mandated 2012 review of the federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program.

• Witness, the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. 2012 hearing on “Five Years of the America COMPETES Act: Progress, Challenges, and Next Steps.”

• Member, National Research Council’s Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Academies, 2007-2009 and 2011-present. Chair of the 2012 study, “Continuing Innovations in Information Technology.”

• Member and Chair, Computing Research Association (CRA) Board, 2006-2008. Chair of the CRA Government Affairs Committee.

• Co-founder, CRA’s Computing Community Consortium (CCC), in 2008. Principal Investigator for the Computing Innovation Fellows Program (CIFellows) in 2009, providing over 100 postdoctoral fellowships to top new computer science PhDs. http://bit.ly/RSEYma (opens in new tab)

• Vice-Chair, DARPA Information Science and Technology Board (ISAT), 2007-2008.

• Witness, the US House a Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Hearing on the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Act of 2009.

• Service on 25 conference program committees, 6 conference and program committee chairmanships.