Outstanding Collaborator Award

In the 25 years since its founding in 1991, Microsoft Research has grown to be a worldwide symbol of excellence in computer science. Our over 1,000 scientists, engineers, and designers produce technologies that change the lives of people every day through their innovative software, systems, and designs. We are proud of our accomplishments, but in reality they are all founded on a model of open collaboration with academia. The Microsoft Research Outstanding Collaborator Award 2016 highlight and celebrate some of the amazing academics who have worked with us over the years.

We salute all our academic collaborators over the years and thank them warmly for their contributions to making Microsoft Research great.

Peter Lee and Jeannette M. Wing
Corporate Vice Presidents

For full stories read the Outstanding Collaborator Award Booklet

Susan Athey Stanford University	Karthikeyan Bhargavan INRIA	Andreas Blass University of Michigan	Roberto Cipolla University of Cambridge
Peter Druschel Max Planck Institute for Software Systems	John Hopcroft Cornell University	Nigel Horspool University of Victoria	Seung-won Hwang Yonsei University
Misha Kazhdan The Johns Hopkins University	Ed Lazowska University of Washington	David Maier Portland State University	Helen Mei-Ling Meng The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Todd Millstein University of California–Los Angeles	Peter Müller ETH Zurich	Shwetak Patel University of Washington	David A. Patterson University of California–Berkeley
Nir Piterman University of Leicester	Gordon Plotkin University of Edinburgh	Erhard Rahm University of Leipzig	Raj Reddy Carnegie Mellon University
Tom Rodden University of Nottingham	Yvonne Rogers University College London	Mooly Sagiv Tel Aviv University	Georg Seelig University of Washington
Ion Stoica University of California–Berkeley	Alexander Szalay The Johns Hopkins University	Andy van Dam Brown University	Bruce D. Walker Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stephanie Weirich University of Pennsylvania	Laurie Williams North Carolina State University	Tao Xie University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Bo ZHANG Tsinghua University

*For full stories read the Outstanding Collaborator Award Booklet