Jeff Bruce

Jeff Bruce, Director of Battery Technologies, leads battery development at Microsoft, collaborating with cell and battery-pack manufacturers to advance and adopt new technologies across Microsoft product lines. Before joining Microsoft, Jeff worked for battery manufacturers and system integrators ranging from startups to large companies. His experience spans nearly every electrochemical energy-storage technology, including lithium, lead-acid, flow, molten-salt, and aqueous-salt batteries. He specializes in system-level design, from cell architecture and battery-management systems for small consumer-electronics devices to megawatt-scale system integration. Earlier in his career, Jeff worked in semiconductors, focusing on CMOS imagers, memory, and ASIC design. Jeff holds more than 60 patents covering batteries, analog circuits, memory, imagers, and related processes and methods. He earned a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Idaho and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Washington State University.