Andrew Herbert

Andrew Herbert is a distinguished engineer, a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and managing director of Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England.  Initially joining Microsoft Research in 2001, as an assistant director, in March 2003 he succeeded the founding director, Roger Needham.

Herbert’s research interests include networks, operating systems, programming languages and distributed information sharing.

Before joining Microsoft Research in 2001, he was director of Advanced Technology at Citrix Systems Inc, where he was instrumental in steering the company toward internet thin-client technologies and initiating development of products for web-based application deployment and for the emerging application service provider market.

Herbert is a fellow of Wolfson College Cambridge, a member of St. John’s College Cambridge, and a liveryman of the City of London Worshipful Company of Information Technologists. In 1975 he graduated from the University of Leeds with a BSc in computational science and in 1978 with a PhD from Cambridge University in computer science.