Corporate Vice President, Technology Strategy and Policy & Extreme Computing Group, Microsoft, USA

Daniel A. Reed is Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President for Extreme Computing Group, where he responsible for R&D on parallel and extreme scale computing, including cloud infrastructure, and also Technology Strategy and Policy, where he leads Microsoft’s long-term technology policy. Previously, he was the Chancellor’s Eminent Professor at UNC Chapel Hill, as well as the Director of the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) and the Chancellor’s Senior Advisor for Strategy and Innovation for UNC Chapel Hill. He has also been Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at UIUC, where he also led National Computational Science Alliance. He was also one of the principal investigators and chief architect for the NSF TeraGrid. He received his PhD in computer science in 1983 from Purdue University.