He is best known for his role as a co-founder of the Microsoft] Cortana] Personal Assistant and his early work in deep learning] for speech processing.

After receiving the Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering at Texas Tech University, he was admitted to graduate school at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1986.

In this role, he established the vision, mission and long-range plan and hired the initial team to create Microsoft’s digital-personal-assistant Cortana.

In 2019, he became head of Bixby (virtual assistant) North America and the CEO of Viv Labs, an independent subsidiary of Samsung.

Larry Heck was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2016[5] for leadership in application of machine learning to spoken and text language processing.