Peter Lee
President, Microsoft Science
About
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.
Microsoft Research Podcast
AI Frontiers: AI for health and the future of research with Peter Lee
The second episode features Peter Lee, head of Microsoft Research. Lee was among a group within Microsoft to have early access to GPT-4 for evaluation and experimentation. Here, he applies his philosophy of tackling research from what will be inevitably true at a future point in time to this current moment. He also explores the differences that may make integrating today’s AI advancements into health care more attainable, a topic he expands on in the soon-to-be-released book The AI Revolution in Medicine: GPT-4 and Beyond and the New England Journal of Medicine article “Benefits, Limits, and Risks of GPT-4 as an AI Chatbot for Medicine.”
Dr. Peter Lee: Microsoft Research & Incubations
Kevin talks with Peter Lee about critical response scientific research, deep learning and neural networks – all related to Covid-19 and Microsoft’s growing healthcare and life sciences initiative. Listen in as they also discuss the key role that public trust plays in the work of scientists and researchers.
Resilience – Episode 3 | Discovering new ways to find resilience
We explore how new innovations are helping us to travel more safely, to share public spaces and to conduct our daily lives. From detecting the virus in our environment, to understanding and optimizing the movements of people, technology can help us reduce the spread of the disease and protect us into the future.
AI, Azure and the future of healthcare with Dr. Peter Lee
Over the past decade, the healthcare industry has undergone a series of technological changes in an effort to modernize it and bring it into the digital world, but the call for innovation persists. One person answering that call is Dr. Peter Lee, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Healthcare, a new organization dedicated to accelerating healthcare innovation through AI and cloud computing. On the podcast, Dr. Lee talks about how MSR’s advances in healthcare technology are impacting the business of Microsoft Healthcare. He also explains how promising innovations like precision medicine, conversational chatbots and Azure’s API for data interoperability may make healthcare better and more efficient in the future.