Mr Tan is corporate vice president and managing director of the core Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Research Lab in Redmond, Washington. He is also an affiliate professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington Seattle since 2007, where he co-founded the National Science Foundation Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering and chaired its industry advisory board. Dr. Tan is an executive who has built and run multidisciplinary global innovation teams - leveraging expertise in hardware and devices, software development, applied machine learning and artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, and applied science to make an impact in areas such as autonomous navigation, entertainment and consumer products, as well as health and life sciences. He is a member of the compensation and leadership development committee.
