Jaime Teevan
Chief Scientist & Technical Fellow
About
Jaime Teevan is Chief Scientist and Technical Fellow at Microsoft (opens in new tab), where she is responsible for driving research-backed innovation in the company’s core products. Jaime is an advocate for finding smarter ways for people to make the most of their time and leads Microsoft’s future of work (opens in new tab) initiative, which brings researchers from across the company together to study how the pandemic has changed work. Previously she was Technical Advisor to CEO Satya Nadella and led the Productivity team (opens in new tab) at Microsoft Research (opens in new tab). Jaime was recently inducted into the ACM SIGIR (opens in new tab) and SIGCHI (opens in new tab) Academies and has received the TR35 (opens in new tab), BECA (opens in new tab), and Karen Spärck Jones (opens in new tab) awards. She holds a Ph.D. (opens in new tab) from MIT (opens in new tab) and a B.S. from Yale (opens in new tab), and is an Affiliate Professor (opens in new tab) at the University of Washington (opens in new tab).
For more, visit teevan.org (opens in new tab) or view her CV (opens in new tab).
Featured content
The New Future of Work: Research from Microsoft into the Pandemic’s Impact on Work Practices
The coronavirus pandemic not only caused a public health crisis, it also caused technological, social, and cultural disruption as people experienced a rapid shift to remote work. Researchers from across Microsoft formed an ongoing cross-company initiative to coordinate efforts with the goal of understanding the impact of remote work and identifying opportunities to support new working practices. This report provides a synthesis of what those researchers learned.
Snippets from the Revolution – An Interview with Dr. Jaime Teevan
Episode 1, November 28, 2017- Dr. Jaime Teevan has a lot to say about productivity in a fragmented culture, and some solutions that seem promising, if somewhat counterintuitive. Dr. Teevan talks about what she calls the productivity revolution, and explains how her research in micro-productivity – making use of short fragments of time to help us accomplish larger tasks – could help us be more productive, and experience a better quality of life at the same time.