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Applied Sciences

Steven Bathiche

Technical Fellow

Steven Bathiche
Steven Bathiche

Steven Bathiche leads Microsoft’s Applied Sciences Group, an interdisciplinary team of scientists, A.I. researchers, and product engineers in the Windows and Devices organization.  His expertise lies in multi-disciplinary approaches that bring together diverse science and engineering disciplines; display, audio, and sensing technologies; and algorithms and software.

His guiding purpose is to evolve the computer to help people achieve their intent by removing barriers, reducing friction, and extending ability.  He does this by inventing new interaction technologies that optimize all levels of the experience loop: better ways to capture the user’s intent and physical world; enabling the computer to perceive and understand these inputs at higher levels of abstraction; and new output technologies to convey knowledge, meaning, and experiences back to the user.

This includes harnessing artificial intelligence to meet users’ needs.  Steve has helped evolve the PC architecture with neural processors, and developed architectures to distribute A.I. loads between the cloud and the edge.  He is engaged in developing devices, software and experiences powered by foundational A.I. models for the Windows platform.

He has been inventing and shipping new Microsoft devices, interfaces, and experiences since 1999, from conceptualizing the original Surface table in 2001 to contributing key innovations to the present line of Surface tablets, laptops, and entirely new form factors.  In 2017 he was named a Microsoft technical fellow.

Steve holds more than 120 patents.  He is a fellow of the Society for Information Display (SID) and has been honored as an innovator by the IEEE.  He is a frequent speaker at international conferences, a distinguished lecturer, and his work has been featured in both technical publications and popular media.

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