Trista Chen

Trista Chen is an AI scientist and technology executive currently serving as the Director of the AI Research Center at Microsoft. They previously held positions as Chief AI Officer at Inventec and Owner of Trista Chen Consulting from 2014 to 2022. Trista founded Fotolugu and worked as the Director of Core Application Engineering at Cognitive Networks, which was acquired by Vizio. They have also served as a Senior Research Scientist at FXPAL and a Research Scientist at Intel Corporation. Trista is pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and holds both MS and BS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics from National Tsing Hua University.