Primary Job Title Partner Research Manager Primary Organization 
Microsoft
Location Bellevue, Washington, United States Regions Greater Seattle Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
LinkedIn View on LinkedIn
Steven M. Drucker is a Partner Research Manager of the Visualization and Interactive Data Analysis (VIDA) Group at Microsoft Research, focusing on human-computer interaction for dealing with large amounts of information. In particular, he is exploring democratizing the process of understanding and explaining information through the creation of
tools that facilitate the discovery and communication of insights through natural interaction and storytelling techniques.
Drucker is also an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering Department. In the past, he has been a Principal Scientist in the LiveLabs Research Group at Microsoft, where he headed the Information Experiences Group working on user interaction and information visualization for web-based projects; a Lead Researcher in the Next Media Research Group examining how the addition of user interaction transforms conventional media; and Lead Researcher in the Virtual Worlds Group creating a platform for multi-user virtual environments.
Drucker has filed over 120 patents and has published papers on technologies as diverse as exploratory search, information visualization, multi-user environments, online social interaction, hypermedia research, human and robot perceptual capabilities, robot learning, parallel computer graphics, spectator-oriented gaming, human interfaces for camera control.
Drucker received his Ph.D. from the MIT Media Lab, with a focus on automatic camera control and navigation in virtual environments; an MS from the AI Laboratory at MIT on robot learning; and his BS in neurosciences from Brown University.
