Newman Cheng

Newman Cheng is a 2026–27 Millennium fellow and a senior software engineer in Microsoft Discovery and Quantum’s office of the chief technology officer. As a technical expert, he has designed foundational large language model technologies crucial to accelerating AI for scientific discovery. He previously served in the US government and, prior to that, was a fellow in Columbia SIPA’s International Fellows program. He holds a bachelor of science in computer science from University of California, Irvine, and a master of science in computer science from Columbia University.