Resume
Background
- Senior Manager and Master Inventor at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
- Leads the cloud native AI platform research team, contributing to IBM’s Watsonx and OpenShift AI platforms for training, tuning, and inference of large generative and foundational models
- Research interests include hybrid cloud, cloud native AI and HPC platforms, resource management and optimization, and sustainable and trusted distributed cloud computing
- Co-leader of the Hybrid Cloud & AI thrust at the IBM-Illinois Discovery Accelerator Institute
- Co-leads collaborative research initiatives between IBM Research and UIUC on hybrid cloud infrastructure for AI, model optimization, runtimes, and agentic systems
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the IBM-SUNY AI Alliance