Kristin M. Tolle, Ph.D.
Cell Phone: (425) 445-1419
Office Phone: (425) 705-9603
Work e-mail: kristin.tolle@microsoft.com
Personal e-mail: kris_tolle@hotmail.com
Homepage: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/ktolle/
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EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:
Over 20 years’ computer research and development experience in industry and research. I'm presently
Director of Data Science in the Microsoft Research Outreach team, developing the strategy with our
business team partners, to successfully engage with the data science and analytics community. I’m
proud to have been co-editor and co-author of the early books on big data, The Fourth Paradigm: Data
Intensive Scientific Discovery.
Since joining Microsoft in 2000, I have received numerous patents and worked for several product teams
including the Natural Language Group, Visual Studio, and the Microsoft Office (MS Excel). During the last
nine years in Microsoft Research, I have launched and managed several major programs for the
Microsoft Research Outreach Team—an organization that creates partnerships between academic
communities and Microsoft Research to drive research innovation both in academia and within
Microsoft Research. These include:
 Health and Wellbeing: Founded mobile health (mHealth) funding and drove academic
development programs
 Natural User Interactions: Creation of tools and services to facilitate more effective human
computer interactions
 Data Curation and Preservation—Creation of tools for data onboarding and validation for reuse
 Data Science and Analytics—Managing projects that focus on interoperability of data to enable
analytics across multiple data sources
EDUCATION:
Ph.D.
Management Information
Systems
Masters of Science
Management Information
Systems
Bachelors of Science
Computer Information
Systems
University of Arizona
Domain Independent Semantic Concept Extraction Using
Corpus Linguistics, Statistical and Artificial Intelligence
Techniques
University of Arizona
Thesis I - PredNet: A Neural Network Based Analysis Tool
for Estimating Blood Serum Concentrations of
Pharmaceutical Agents
Thesis II – Improving Concept Extraction from Text Using
Noun Phrasing Tools: An Experiment in Medical
Information Retrieval
Boise State University
Emphasis in Accounting and Computer Science
Dec 2002
May 1996
May 1997
May 1988
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Microsoft Research,
Outreach
Director, of Programs:
Data Science, Environmental Science Development, Data
Curation, Natural User Interface
Redmond, WA, USA
August 2010 to
present
University of Washington
College of Medicine
Clinical Associate Professor
College of Global Public Health
August 2009 to
August 2013
Microsoft Research
External Research
Director and Senior Research Program Manager
Devices, Sensors and Mobility for Healthcare
Redmond, WA, USA
Sept 2006 to
March 2010
Microsoft Corporation
Office R&D, Visual Studio
Tools
Program Manager Lead and Program Manager
Visual Studio Team Server, Excel, Office Charting
Redmond, WA, USA
March 2003
Sept 2006
Microsoft Corporation
Natural Language Group
Program Manager
Natural Language Developers Platform
Redmond, WA, USA
Sept 2000 to
March 2003
University of Arizona
Artificial Intelligence Lab,
Medical Informatics Team
Research Associate, Development Lead and Program
Manager, Medical informatics and Computational Linguistics
Tucson, AZ, USA
Sept 1995 to
Sept 2000
Extended Systems, Inc.
Boise, ID
Program Manager:
International and U.S. Market Development, Marketing
Communications, Media Relations, and Training Manager
May 1988 –
August 1995
RECENT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS:
Environmental Science
Services Toolkit
The objective of this project is to create a common, easy-to-use infrastructure and
user experience that gives ready access to existing and new research tools
targeted at climate change and environmental science. The design is targeted at
addressing specific pain points that hinder scientific discoveries in this area and
facilitate citizen science.
DataUp – A Data Curation
tool for Environmental
Scientists
Data sharing, management, and curation have become critical to scientists as well
as private and public agencies that support their work. DataUp makes it easy for
scientists and researchers to integrate the archiving, sharing, and publishing of
tabular data into scientific workflows.
Microsoft Translator Hub
Microsoft Translator Hub is designed to empower companies and communities to
build, improve, and deploy customized automatic language translation systems.
Language communities who do not presently have translation support can add
their language to the global knowledge network, preserving it for generations to
come. Recent projects include Nepali and Mayan. Hmong Daw was released on
Bing Translator on UNESCO’s International Mother Languages Day, 2012.
Devices, Sensors and
Mobility for Healthcare
(mHealth)
This program was designed to explore the democratization of healthcare and
encompassed more the 20 projects at academic institutions all over the world. CoFounded with the National Institutes of Health, this program culminated in the
mHealth Summit held in the US and Africa as a forum to discuss ways that mobile
phones can be used to extend the reach of healthcare in developing nations and
under-served communities and a keynote talk/interview with Bill Gates.