PeopleofSuperintelligence

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Ece Kamar

Ece Kamar is a computer scientist who joined Microsoft in 2010 to work on AI research and responsible AI initiatives. Born in Izmir in 1983, she finished a computer science and engineering degree at Sabancı University in 2005 and a Harvard PhD under Barbara Grosz in 2010. In 2023 she co-wrote Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence, an arXiv paper on early experiments with GPT-4. As a corporate vice president at Microsoft Research, she led AI Frontiers, a lab on foundation models and platform capabilities whose releases include the Phi models and AutoGen. Currently, she is chief technology officer at Turing, a post the company announced in September 2026.

Now at
Turing
Works
162
Citations
9,692
h-index
37

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 1983–2005

    A degree from Sabancı University

    Born in Izmir, Turkey, in 1983, she completes a bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering at Sabancı University in 2005.

  2. 2010

    A Harvard PhD under Barbara Grosz

    She completes a Harvard PhD in computer science in 2010 under Barbara J. Grosz, with a thesis on reasoning under uncertainty for human-computer teamwork.

  3. 2010

    A career at Microsoft

    In 2010 she joins Microsoft, where she works on AI research and responsible AI initiatives.

  4. 2023

    Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence

    An arXiv paper from 2023, Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence, reports early experiments with GPT-4 and lists her as a co-author.

  5. November 2024

    Magentic-One multi-agent system

    Magentic-One, a generalist multi-agent system for complex tasks, names her among its authors, and arXiv lists it in November 2024.

  6. By 2026

    The AI Frontiers lab

    By 2026, she leads AI Frontiers at Microsoft Research as a corporate vice president, a lab that works on foundation models and platform capabilities. Its releases include the Phi family of models and agent libraries such as AutoGen.

  7. September 2026

    Chief technology officer at Turing

    In September 2026, Turing names her chief technology officer to lead its technology and research strategy across frontier AI and enterprise AI businesses.

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  1. Turkey in Seattle Oral History Project depts.washington.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  2. Sabancı University Welcoming Two Leading Computer Scientists as Adjunct Faculty Members of the FENS | gazeteSU gazetesu.sabanciuniv.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  3. [2303.12712] Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4 arxiv.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  4. [2411.04468] Magentic-One: A Generalist Multi-Agent System for Solving Complex Tasks arxiv.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  5. Turing Names Ece Kamar Chief Technology Officer go.turing.com. Checked 15 October 2026.
  6. Speakers' Bios - Venice International University univiu.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  7. Turing Names Ece Kamar Chief Technology Officer | Morningstar morningstar.com. Checked 15 October 2026.