Desney Tan

Desney Tan has served as a ResMed director since November 2021, and is a member of the compensation committee.

Dr. Desney Tan is vice president and managing director for Health and Life Science R&D at Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), where he’s worked in various leading research roles since 2004. He is also an affiliate professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington Seattle since 2007, where he cofounded the National Science Foundation Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering and chaired its industry advisory board.

Dr. Tan is a seasoned executive who has built and run multidisciplinary global innovation teams – leveraging expertise in hardware and devices, software development, applied machine learning and artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, and applied science to make impact in areas such as autonomous navigation, entertainment and consumer products, as well as health and life sciences.

Dr. Tan is the named inventor on more than 100 granted patents, and author of numerous academic publications on topics relevant to ResMed’s long-term strategy such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and human-computer interaction. He serves as senior advisor and chief technologist to IntuitiveX, a medical device and life sciences innovation partner and catalyst, and as advisor to Proprio, which is developing an advanced surgical navigation platform. He also achieved the rank of Lieutenant in the Singapore Armed Forces over two-and-a-half years of active duty service, and still serves in its reserves.

Dr. Tan has a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Bachelor of Science in computer engineering from the University of Notre Dame.