Publicis Groupe has nominated Microsoft Chief Scientist and Technical Fellow Jaime Teevan to serve as an independent board member for a four-year term. A vote on her nomination will take place at the company’s annual meeting on May 27.  

A 20-year Microsoft veteran, Teevan is responsible for driving innovation in the company’s core products. She led the creation of the AI-driven chatbot M365 Copilot and invented the first personalized search algorithm used by Bing. She also coordinated the company’s hybrid work research during the pandemic.   

Teevan holds a Ph.D. in AI from MIT and a B.S. from Yale and is an affiliate professor at the University of Washington. Her specialties include productivity, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, machine learning, data mining, and personalized search.   

She was named to Time's inaugural list of the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence in  2023.  

Prior to her current role at Microsoft, she served as technical advisor to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.