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Mike Shepperd

Principal R&D Engineering Manager

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Mike Shepperd is a Principal R&D Engineering Manager at Microsoft Research, leading a multi-disciplinary team of engineers, designers, and technology consultants who work with teams across MSR to bridge the gaps between research ideas and their successful implementation. He is also the manager of the MSR Hardware Lab (opens in new tab) in Redmond, WA.

Mike’s expertise spans most areas of technology, logistics, systems, software, and platforms. He has been solving complex problems to drive the success of research projects across all disciplines in MSR. Mike is currently working on multiple research projects to design datacenters, servers, and related technology systems for the future.

Recent work:

Holoportation for 3D TeleMedicine (opens in new tab)

Microsoft IT partnership for Project Natick (opens in new tab)

Microsoft Turing Academic Program (opens in new tab)

Project Natick (opens in new tab) – Underwater Datacenter

Datacenter Deployment (opens in new tab)
Datacenter Recovery (opens in new tab)