Renee St. Amant

About

Renée St. Amant is a Principal Research Product Manager for Efficient AI in Microsoft 365 Research where she is focused on leading Efficient AI strategy and incubating research-product transfer. She is a prolific inventor with over 3,600 citations and 10 issued patents. The quality of her work has been recognized with inclusion in IEEE Micro Top Picks Special Issues, Communications of the ACM Research Highlights, and invited industry keynote presentations including the SEMICON West AI Design Forum. She also received Arm’s Innovator of the Year award for quantity and quality of patentable inventions.  

Her research background spans the compute stack – from transistor level circuit design to innovation in machine learning training algorithms for improved accuracy and hardware efficiency. Her earliest Efficient AI research was published in 2008 and subsequent work covered quantization, neural architecture search, and analog NPU design. Beyond Efficient AI research, she has developed edge solutions for the rural classroom in South America and worked as a Fellow at the World Economic Forum to facilitate tech industry collaboration to advance the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals. She also worked at Arm where she led biotech/healthcare research strategy, followed by other technical strategy-oriented roles in augmented reality, edge intelligence, and sustainability. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.