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