Kristin M. Tolle, Ph.D.

Dr. Kristin M. Tolle is the Director for Microsoft Research Connections Team's Natural User Interactions (NUI) Theme and has been working in Microsoft Research since 2006. Since joining Microsoft, Dr. Tolle has applied for dozens of patents and worked in multiple product teams including the Natural Language Group, Visual Studio, and Excel. In 2009, she co-edited The Fourth Paradigm, a book that collates visionary essays on the emerging field of data-intensive science and she presently is the primary editor for the Nature.com blog: The Fourth Paradigm. Her External Research activities include speech recognition, 2D and 3D data/image capture and visualization, human-centric computing (HCC), and devices, sensors and mobility as technologies for the enablement of ubiquitous computing.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Dr. Tolle was an Oak Ridge Science and Engineering Research Fellow for the National Library of Medicine and a Research Associate at the University of Arizona Artificial Intelligence Lab managing the group on medical information retrieval and natural language processing. She earned her Ph.D. and Masters in Management of Information Systems with a minor in Computational Linguistics. She also has a Bachelors of Science in Computer Information Systems. Her research interests include, natural language processing, automatic ontology capture (both language and gesture), data mining, data visualization, sensors, cellular computing, and knowledge management. Many of her publications focus on the application of these technologies to improving global public health.

Events

CHI 2011: http://www.chi2011.org/  

Microsoft LATAM Summit, Cartagena, Columbia: May 18-20, 2011: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/latamfacsum2011/default.aspx

Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2011, 17th - 20th of July, Redmond WA: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/fs2011/default.aspx 

Microsoft Research eScience Workshop December 4–8, 2011 Stockholm, Sweden: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/escience2011/ 

Related Links

Microsoft Research Connections NUI Homepage: http://research.microsoft.com/nui

Curriculum Vitae: /en-us/people/ktolle/2011_august_ktolle_cv.doc

Recent Headshot: /en-us/people/ktolle/kristintolle_headshot_fall2010.jpg