Chief Data Scientist Tech for Social Impact
Microsoft Philanthropies
Kristin M. Tolle, Ph.D. is the Chief Data Scientist in Microsoft’s Tech for Social Impact team where we design and build cloud-based, AI-enabled solutions for non-profits. She is also a Machine Learning lecturer and Senior Data Scientist at the eScience Institute at University of Washington. Dr. Tolle has held many leadership positions in Microsoft’s Engineering organizations, from Visual Studio to our Artificial Intelligence product team. She has over 15 patents in software development and medical sensors and devices and was the co-editor and co-author of the earliest books on big data, The Fourth Paradigm: Data Intensive Scientific Discovery.