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Jaime Teevan (born 1976) is an American computer scientist and Microsoft executive known for her work on AI and productivity.

Education and background

Teevan received a B.S. in Computer Science from Yale University. As an undergraduate, she sold her senior thesis to Infoseek, an early web search engine. In it she invented an early approach to using the web link graph to support information seeking.

Teevan also received a Ph.D. and S.M. from MIT where she helped pioneer the field of Personal Information Management.

Career

Teevan spent a number of years as a researcher at Microsoft Research, where she has studied various aspects of human-computer interaction, information retrieval, and computer-supported cooperative work. Her work has focused on how to help people find, manage, and use information more effectively, especially in the context of time constraints, personal preferences, and collaborative settings.

From 2017 to 2018, Teevan served as Technical Adviser to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. She was his first technical advisor with a background in AI.

She is currently Microsoft's Chief Scientist and was inaugurated as a Microsoft Technical Fellow in 2022. As Microsoft has doubled down on AI-driven products and integrated research more tightly into Microsoft products, Jaime has been one of the key people driving that shift. According to Business Insider, "she's the brains behind Microsoft's productivity innovations."

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, Teevan lead Microsoft's Future of Work initiative to bring together researchers from Microsoft, LinkedIn, and GitHub to study how the pandemic has changed work. This led to innovations in Microsoft products, including, for example, better technological support for hybrid meetings.

Starting in Fall 2022, Teevan led the early M365 Copilot work to integrate the latest AI into Microsoft's core products. During this period, she focused on seamlessly embedding AI technologies into tools like Word, Excel, and Teams. In an interview with Reid Hoffman recorded on the day M365 Copilot launched, Teevan spoke about her experience bringing generative AI to Microsoft products. She participated in the announcement of M365 Copilot to talk about the “art and science underlying Copilot.”

Research and awards

Teevan has published over 100 papers at international conferences and journals and received many awards for her papers. Much of her work focuses on information retrieval, human-computer interaction, and the future of work. She co-authored the first book on collaborative information seeking, and edited a book on Personal Information Management (PIM).

Teevan is particularly known for the work she has done on personalized search. According to the Technology Review, Teevan "is a leader in using data about people's knowledge, preferences, and habits to help them manage information."

Teevan also works on 'microproductivity,' breaking down complex tasks into a series of microtasks that can be completed more easily and efficiently. She developed the concept of selfsourcing, where microtasks are completed by the task owner rather than crowd workers. A 2017 article in the New York Magazine quotes her as saying, "I could probably pretty easily find an extra hour in my day at work, just in these little micro-moments of time when I’m not being productive."

Teevan was named a Technology Review (TR35) 2009 Young Innovator for her research on personalized search and received the CRA-W Borg Early Career Award (BECA) in 2014. In 2016 she received the Karen Spärck Jones award from the British Computer Society for her "technically strong and exceptionally creative contributions to the intersection of information retrieval, user experience and social media."

In 2022, she was inaugurated as a Microsoft Technical Fellow, and named to the 2022 class of ACM Fellows, "for contributions to human-computer interaction, information retrieval, and productivity". That same year she also became a member of the SIGCHI and SIGIR Academies. In 2023 she was featured in TIME's first ever list of the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence.

Teevan also serves on the board of the Computing Research Association (CRA).

Personal

Teevan is married to Alexander Hehmeyer. The couple live in Bellevue, Washington and have four children. Teevan is an advocate for helping researchers successfully integrate parenthood and academic efforts.

References

1. Chen, Annie. "Jaime Teevan (TD '98): Technology with people in mind – Yale Scientific Magazine". www.yalescientific.org.
2. Teevan, Jaime. "Supporting Finding and Re-Finding Through Personalization" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-08-24.
3. "Improving Information Retrieval with Textual Analysis: Bayesian Models and Beyond" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-16. Retrieved 2011-03-08.
4. ^ Kleiner, Kurt (August 2009). "TR35: Jaime Teevan, 32". Technology Review. Retrieved 10 March 2011.
5. "The Computer-Science Researcher Who Wants to Help Automate Your Work Life". 27 March 2017.
6. "Geek of the Week: Take a break, and read about Jaime Teevan's Microsoft research on working less – GeekWire".
7. ^ Levy, Steven (November 21, 2024). "Relevant! Relevant! Relevant! At 50, Microsoft Is an AI Giant, Open-Source Lover, and as Bad as Ever". Wired.
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9. "Microsoft doubles down on AI-driven products and Jaime Teevan is leading that charge". Retrieved 2023-08-25.
10. "Microsoft just had a reorg that affects its Azure, Windows, and Surface teams — here are the 22 power players running its Windows and cloud software businesses". Business Insider.
11. "Leading like a scientist: Microsoft's Jaime Teevan on the new mindset for the future of work – GeekWire".
12. "Designing the New Hybrid Meeting Experience—for Everyone". Microsoft.
13. ^ "Jaime Teevan: The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2023". 7 September 2023.
14. url=https://link.chtbl.com/OVbBPpIa
15. "The Future of Work with AI - Microsoft March 2023 Event". YouTube.
16. Morris, Meredith Ringel and Teevan, Jaime (2010). Collaborative Search: Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How. Morgan and Claypool Publishers. ISBN 978-1-60845-121-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
17. Jones, William; Teevan, Jaime, eds. (2007). Personal Information Management. University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-295-98737-8.
18. Teevan, Jaime (Winter 2016). "The Future of Microwork" (PDF). XRDS. 23 (2): 26–29. doi:10.1145/3019600. S2CID 19485095.
19. Teevan, Jaime; Liebling, Daniel J.; Lasecki, Walter S. (2014). "Selfsourcing personal tasks" (PDF). CHI.
20. Meade, Julie. "The Computer-Science Researcher Who Wants to Help Automate Your Work Life". New York Magazine. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
21. ^ Knies, Rob (April 2014). "Researcher Teevan Wins Borg Early Career Award". Inside Microsoft Research. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
22. "KSJ Award". Irsg.bcs.org. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
23. "Global computing association names 57 fellows for outstanding contributions that propel technology today". Association for Computing Machinery. January 18, 2023. Retrieved 2023-01-18.
24. "SIGCHI Awards 2022".
25. "SIGIR Academy | SIGIR".
26. "CRA Board Highlight". October 2018.
27. "WEDDINGS; Jaime Teevan, Alexander Hehmeyer". New York Times. June 16, 2002. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
28. Vanderkam, Laura (6 June 2015). "Women with Big Jobs and Big Families: Balancing Really Isn't That Hard". Fortune. Retrieved 14 September 2015.

External links

• Professional home page

• Information retrieval researchers
• Human–computer interaction researchers
• American women computer scientists
• American computer scientists
• Microsoft employees
• Living people
• Yale University alumni
• MIT School of Engineering alumni
• University of Washington faculty
• 1976 births
• American women academics
• 21st-century American women
• Microsoft technical fellows
• 2022 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery