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About
Dr Kenji Takeda is Director of Research Incubations for Microsoft Research. He is focussed on accelerating research to impact by partnering with teams across Microsoft, industry, academia, and governments to create real-world value from AI for science, sustainability and health.
He is working across the chemistry and materials community to realise the benefits of generative AI (opens in new tab) and AI emulators (opens in new tab) across a spectrum of real-world applications. In health, he led the Project InnerEye (opens in new tab) OSS community, supporting partners to clinically deploy AI to accelerate cancer treatment in the NHS (opens in new tab). He led Microsoft’s Studies in Pandemic Preparedness (opens in new tab) program and served on the Royal Society Rapid Assistance in Modelling the Pandemic (RAMP) (opens in new tab) steering committee to bolster UK and global pandemic response efforts. He led Microsoft’s Azure for Research program (opens in new tab), empowering researchers to take best advantage of cloud computing, including through data science, high-performance computing, and the internet of things. He was a member of Microsoft Global Hackathon (opens in new tab) 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021 winning teams, and Health Data Research UK Team of the Year in 2020 (opens in new tab).
In public service, he advises funding agencies and research organisations on innovation and technology strategy. This includes the UK Medical Research Council Data Science Strategic Advisory and Translational Research Groups, and contributing to the US-UK Scientific Forum on Researcher Access to Data (opens in new tab). He is a visiting fellow at the Alan Turing Institute (opens in new tab) and University of Southampton, UK.
Prior to joining Microsoft, he was Associate Professor for Aeronautics at the University of Southampton, UK (opens in new tab), where he co-founded the Microsoft Institute for High Performance Computing (opens in new tab), Airbus Noise Technology Centre (opens in new tab), and the world’s first Master’s course in race car aerodynamics (opens in new tab) working with Formula One teams. He has received numerous awards, including the inaugural Royal Academy of Engineering Innovation prize (opens in new tab), Royal Aeronautical Society Silver Award (opens in new tab), and the Royal Academy of Engineering/ExxonMobil Gold medal (opens in new tab) for excellence in university engineering learning and teaching. He worked for over a decade as a technology journalist with ZDNet, GameSpot, Computer Gaming World, and PC Pilot.
Email: kenjitak (at) microsoft.com