Ryen W. White

About

I am a Distinguished Scientist and Vice President at Microsoft, leading the applied science organization for OneDrive and SharePoint. My work focuses on agentic AI, search, and knowledge systems.

Previously, I was Partner Research Director, Deputy Lab Director, and General Manager at Microsoft Research in Redmond, leading research groups working on areas such as multi-agent systems (AutoGen (opens in new tab)), the creation of world and human action models for gameplay ideation (WHAM (opens in new tab), Nature article (opens in new tab)), and the move from search engines toward action engines (Computer article (opens in new tab)).

I am also an Affiliate Full Professor at the University of Washington (opens in new tab). I led applied science for Cortana and I was chief scientist at Microsoft Health. I have shipped research in many Microsoft products, including Bing, Xbox, Internet Explorer, Skype, Dynamics, Health, Windows, Cortana, Office (Outlook, Teams, Planner, To Do, Word), and Azure.

I am Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on the Web (opens in new tab), and a Fellow of the ACM (opens in new tab).

See ryenwhite.com (opens in new tab) for more details.