Jaime Teevan
Chief Scientist and Technical Fellow at Microsoft
Microsoft's Chief Scientist, who led the early Microsoft 365 Copilot work to bring generative AI into Word, Excel and Teams.
Biography
Jaime Teevan is an American computer scientist and Microsoft executive known for her work on AI and productivity. She earned a BS in computer science from Yale University, where she sold her senior thesis to the early search engine Infoseek, and a PhD and SM from MIT, where she helped pioneer personal information management.
She spent years as a researcher at Microsoft Research studying human-computer interaction and information retrieval, and served as Technical Adviser to CEO Satya Nadella from 2017 to 2018, his first technical advisor with a background in AI. She is Microsoft's Chief Scientist and became a Microsoft Technical Fellow in 2022. Starting in fall 2022 she led the early Microsoft 365 Copilot work to embed generative AI in tools like Word, Excel and Teams. She was named an ACM Fellow in 2022 and to TIME's first list of the 100 most influential people in AI in 2023.
Notable contributions
Led early Microsoft 365 Copilot work
Starting in fall 2022, led the early M365 Copilot effort to integrate the latest AI into Microsoft's core products such as Word, Excel and Teams.
Became Microsoft's Chief Scientist
Serves as Microsoft's Chief Scientist and was named a Microsoft Technical Fellow in 2022.
Elected ACM Fellow
Named to the 2022 class of ACM Fellows for contributions to human-computer interaction, information retrieval and productivity.
