Yu-Ting Kuo

Yu-Ting Kuo is a faculty member at MIT Sloan School of Management and National Tsing Hua University’s Department of Computer Science, where he teaches corporate entrepreneurship, machine learning, and AI ethics. Kuo helps bridge the gap between academic theory and practical business acumen, preparing the next generation of business and technical leaders for success. His dedication to nurturing leaders is also evident in his roles 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 initially retiring from Microsoft in December 2021 following a 25-year career, in December 2024, Kuo re-joined Microsoft as corporate vice president, leading Microsoft's agentic AI development. During his earlier tenure at Microsoft, Kuo pioneered the company's Azure AI services and consumer AI applications as corporate vice president, reporting directly to Microsoft's CTO and executive vice president of AI. He also founded Microsoft’s AI R&D Centers in Belgrade, Cambridge (UK), Taipei, and Zürich, where the company works on advanced, large-scale AI and machine learning technologies. Kuo was also a founding member of Microsoft’s search engine, Bing.

Kuo's thought leadership in AI is widely recognized. His 2024 coauthored paper, “The mechanisms of AI hype,” was the most accessed in the Springer AI and Ethics Journal's The Ethical Implications of AI Hype collection. In 2021, Business Insider named him one of the "11 power players leading artificial intelligence at Microsoft, helping guide CEO Satya Nadella's grand pivot to AI." Kuo's pioneering work in cloud AI services, which earned him the inaugural Asian American Luminary Award in Science and Engineering Innovation from the Chinese Institute of Engineers in 2018, is also featured in a 2025 book, The Insider’s Guide to Innovation at Microsoft. These accolades, along with his 12 US and international patents in search and AI technologies, underscore his significant contributions to the advancement of artificial intelligence.

Kuo began his career as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company. He is an alumnus of National Tsing Hua University, MIT, Harvard Business School, and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In 2020, he was named a distinguished alumnus of the College of Science at National Tsing Hua University. In recognition of his entrepreneurial achievements, Kuo was inducted into the prestigious Tsing Hua Entrepreneur Network as an overseas member in 2021. He is also a member of the MIT 77 Society, an honor bestowed upon those who have demonstrated inspirational support for the MIT Campaign for a Better World. In 2025, Kuo was elected an Honorary Fellow of Hughes Hall at the University of Cambridge.

Kuo is currently focused on the ethics, safety, and governance of AI, as well as the development of agentic and other generative AI technologies. His interests also extend to entrepreneurship and innovation management in startups and large-scale organizations.