Yu-Ting Kuo
Regular biography
Yu-Ting Kuo is a Senior Lecturer in Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management at MIT Sloan School of Management and National Tsing Hua University’s Department of Computer Science. He teaches corporate entrepreneurship, machine learning, and AI ethics, bridging academic theory with practical business acumen. Kuo also serves as an independent director for non-profits and startups, an entrepreneurship expert at Oxford Saïd Business School, a professional advisor at the MIT Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship, and an Executive Board member at MIT Sloan. After retiring from Microsoft in 2021, he rejoined the company in 2024 as corporate vice president, leading agentic AI development. During his earlier tenure at Microsoft, he pioneered Azure AI services and consumer AI applications, and founded AI R&D Centers in Belgrade, Cambridge (UK), Taipei, and Zürich.