Short Bio: Patrice Simard is the Chief Scientist in Microsoft Live Labs.  His team is responsible for developing new technologies related to the internet.  Examples include search, advertising and commerce, data mining, images processing, mobile computing, and document understanding.  Prior to Live Labs, Patrice was Research Area Manager at Microsoft Research.  From 2002 to 2005, he managed the Document Processing and Understanding group at Microsoft Research. 

Since he joined Microsoft in 1998, Patrice has developed and shipped algorithms for compression, handwriting recognition, and document analysis.  Patrice is the author of over 50 scientific publications and has filed over 50 patents (awarded or pending) in the fields of Machine learning, Vision, and Signal Processing.  Before joining Microsoft, Patrice worked in research with AT&T Laboratories from 1991 to 1998.  He received his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (1986) from l'Université de Montréal, Canada and his Ph.D. in Computer Science (1991) from the University of Rochester, NY.  His scientific interests include algorithms, learning, and generalization.

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