Desney Tan
Corporate Vice President and Managing Director, Microsoft Research Redmond
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Awards | University of Washington Allen School Blog
Desney Tan paper earns ISS 10-year Impact Award for advancing innovative interaction technique via on-body sensing
Desney Tan, along with fellow authors, Adiyan Mujibiya, Xiang Cao, Dan Morris, Shwetak N. Patel, Jun Rekimoto, received the 10-Year Impact Award from the Association for Computing Machinery's Interactive Surfaces and Spaces Conference (ISS 2022) for ”significant impact on subsequent…
In the news | Volastra
Volastra Therapeutics Partners with Microsoft to Advance Metastatic Cancer Research
Collaboration will integrate Microsoft Azure AI and Volastra’s insights into tumor biology to develop machine learning tools to detect drivers of tumor growth and predict metastatic risk.
In the news | ZDNet
This cutting-edge cloud-computing service is helping researchers track COVID’s spread
As computational science and data science are becoming closer than ever, a deal with Microsoft could see Verily and Broad Institute's open-source cloud platform hit new users.
In the news | GeekWire
IPO filing: Microsoft invested $45M in Adaptive Biotechnologies as part of universal blood test deal
In 2017, Microsoft struck a deal with Seattle-based Adaptive Biotechnologies to develop a blood test with the promise of diagnosing dozens of diseases at once, and as part of the agreement, pledged to invest an undisclosed amount in the company. Adaptive filed…
In the news | GeekWire
How Microsoft and Adaptive Biotech became ‘a single team’ to build groundbreaking AI diagnostic
Every day, thousands of people cross the 520 bridge between Seattle and Bellevue, Wash. But for some of those people, the daily journey is more than just a commute: It is part of a years-long project to create a completely…
In the news | Huffington Post
An Exclusive Ideagen Live ‘Inside the Boardroom’ Presentation with Desney Tan
Desney Tan: Students and young professionals often ask: "What do I have to do to be successful?" "What do I have to do to have a good life?" It's an amazingly important question. It's a profound question and one that…
In the news | Fast Company
Sonar Lets You Control Your Smartphone Without Even Touching It
Sleep apnea and smartphone interfaces don’t immediately sound related but as Shyam Gollakota, a computer science professor at the University of Washington, and his fellow researchers discovered, the technology used to track the former can mitigate some problems with the…
In the news | Microsoft AI Blog
The Next at Microsoft Podcast Ep. 5 – The World of Wearables
Welcome to the fifth episode of the Next at Microsoft podcast series. In this edition, Desney Tan, Microsoft principal researcher, and Amish Patel, director of experiences and design for the Personal Devices Group at Microsoft, talk about wearable technology (such…
In the news | Xconomy
Investing in Dreams: Northwest Programs Educate New Angels
Desney Tan is a decorated computer scientist and principal researcher at Microsoft Research where he works on mobile and wearable devices. He’s done well enough to have “a couple extra dollars to toss around,” he says, and he wanted to…