Peter Lee (computer scientist)

For other people named Peter Lee, see Peter Lee (disambiguation).

Peter Lee (born November 30, 1960) is an American computer scientist. He is Corporate Vice President and head of Microsoft Research.[1] Previously, he was the head of the Transformational Convergence Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the chair of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University.[2] His research focuses on software security and reliability.

Lee received his PhD degree from the University of Michigan in May 1987 with thesis[2] titled The automatic generation of realistic compilers from high-level semantic descriptions.[3] He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

  1. ^ "Microsoft Research Leadership". Microsoft, Redmond, USA. Retrieved July 6, 2014.
  2. ^ a b "Curriculum vitae". Peter Lee. Carnegie Mellon University, USA. Retrieved May 25, 2011.
  3. ^ Lee, Peter (1987). The automatic generation of realistic compilers from high-level semantic descriptions (Ph.D). University of Michigan. Retrieved January 13, 2014 – via ProQuest.