Tony Chen

About

Tony Chen received a Bachelor of Science degree from National Taiwan University Electrical Engineering Department in 1986 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Maryland at College Park in 1992.

Tony has worked at Microsoft since 1997 and is currently a Partner Security Architect in the OS Security team. Since joining Microsoft, Tony has spent most of his career working on Xbox. He was a founding member of the Xbox Live team since 2000 and contributed to the launch of Xbox Live in 2002 and its continued growth through 2011. Starting in 2011, Tony worked on security for Xbox to prevent cheating and piracy. He worked with the Microsoft hardware team and AMD to successfully design and launch the Xbox One game console in 2013 which to this day still has not been hacked to enable piracy and cheating. It is the only game console ever made to have such a long record of upholding security.

Since 2014, Tony has been working in the OS Security team to help improve the security of Windows devices through a combination of hardware and software changes. Microsoft’s Pluton security processor for Windows is a direct result of Tony’s effort. In recent years, Tony has also taken interest on how to combat memory safety issues and has pushed for the usage of CHERI based processors to enhance security of modern SoCs.