Andrew D. Gordon is a Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research Cambridge, and is a part-time Professor at the University of Edinburgh. He has worked on a range of topics in concurrency, verification, security, and machine learning, never straying too far from his roots in functional programming. Since joining Microsoft in 1997 he has initiated and led a series of successful research projects and technology transfers. His current passion is to revolutionize spreadsheets with ideas from programming languages, machine learning, and HCI.