People
People at IBM
29 people in the USASI People directory whose sourced profiles document a current or earlier role at IBM; 16 of them in a current role. Current roles are listed first, then alphabetically. Each profile covers public professional work only. This is not a ranking.
Aaron Teo
Technology Engineer, IBM Client Engineering
IBM technology engineer and code owner for llama.cpp's zDNN backend for IBM Z and LinuxONE
Arvind Krishna
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Chairman, President and CEO of IBM; earlier led IBM Research and IBM's Cloud and Cognitive Software unit
Carlos Costa
Distinguished Engineer
IBM Distinguished Engineer and llm-d project lead for inference optimization research
David D. Cox
VP, AI Foundations; IBM Director, MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab
VP, AI Foundations at IBM Research, working on IBM's Granite models; earlier a Harvard professor
Francesca Rossi
IBM Global Leader for Responsible AI and AI Governance; IBM Fellow
IBM Fellow and IBM Global Leader for Responsible AI and AI Governance; past president of AAAI and IJCAI
Hendrik Strobelt
Senior Research Scientist; Explainability Lead, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab
Senior Research Scientist at IBM Research and MIT-IBM lab explainability lead; co-creator of GLTR
Kate Soule
Director, Technical Product Management, Granite
Director of Technical Product Management for Granite at IBM Research; co-author of Granite Embedding
Kush R. Varshney
IBM Fellow, directing Human-Centered Trustworthy AI research
IBM Fellow directing trustworthy AI research at IBM; team behind AI Fairness 360 and Granite Guardian
Luis Lastras
Director of language and multimodal models
IBM Research director of language and multimodal models; co-author of the Granite Switch 4.1 launch post
Marina Danilevsky
Senior Research Scientist, Manager - core language and conversational technologies
Senior Research Scientist and manager at IBM Research; co-author of the MTRAG multi-turn RAG benchmark
Matt Hicks
Senior Vice President and CEO of Red Hat
President and CEO of Red Hat and an IBM Senior Vice President; a founding engineer on the OpenShift team
Michael Hind
Distinguished Research Staff Member
Distinguished Research Staff Member at IBM Research; co-author of AI Fairness 360, AIX360 and FactSheets
Peter Staar
Principal Research Staff Member, Master Inventor and manager of the AI for Knowledge group, IBM Research
IBM Research manager and Docling technical lead; chairs the LF AI & Data Technical Advisory Council
Priya Nagpurkar
Vice President of AI Platform (as titled by IBM Research in March 2026)
Vice president at IBM Research, titled VP of AI platform in March 2026; co-author of LLM-serving research
Ruchir Puri
Chief Scientist, IBM Research; IBM Fellow; Vice President, IBM Technology & Technical Community
Chief Scientist of IBM Research and IBM Fellow; first author of the Project CodeNet dataset paper
Sriram Raghavan
General Manager, IBM Software, India and Software Innovation Lab
GM of IBM Software, India and Software Innovation Lab; formerly vice president for AI at IBM Research
Aleksandra Mojsilović
Head of Trustworthy Machine Intelligence and IBM Fellow (as described by IBM Research in February 2023) (earlier role)
Led Trustworthy Machine Intelligence at IBM Research; co-author of AI Fairness 360, AIX360 and FactSheets
Allie K. Miller
Launched a multimodal AI team (earlier role)
AI business advisor and educator who writes the AI with ALLIE newsletter and teaches AI courses
Avi Sil
IBM researcher specializing in natural language processing (IBM Research blog, July 2022) (earlier role)
NLP researcher; first author of IBM's open-source PrimeQA toolkit and co-author of Granite Embedding
Darío Gil
Senior Vice President and Director of Research (earlier role)
Under Secretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy; former IBM SVP and Director of Research
Hani Jamjoom
Listed with IBM Research on the 2025 GPU confidential computing paper and with the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center on a 2026 arXiv paper (earlier role)
Systems security researcher listed with IBM Research; co-author of confidential-computing studies for AI
Heiga Zen
Intern/Co-Op researcher (2004–2005) (earlier role)
Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind; WaveNet co-author and an original author of HTS speech synthesis
Johny Srouji
Senior positions in processor development and design (earlier role)
Apple's chief hardware officer, overseeing Apple silicon and the company's hardware technologies
Kari Briski
Worked at IBM before joining NVIDIA in 2016 (earlier role)
VP of AI software product management at NVIDIA; listed in the Nemotron 3 leadership credits
Lisa Su
Engineering and business leadership positions over 13 years, including vice president of the Semiconductor Research and Development Center (earlier role)
Chair and Chief Executive Officer of AMD
Piero Molino
Researcher (2015–2016) (earlier role)
Creator of the Ludwig declarative deep learning framework; CEO and co-founder of Studio Atelico
Rama Akkiraju
IBM Fellow, Master Inventor, and CTO of IBM Watson AI Operations (earlier role)
Vice president of AI for IT at NVIDIA; former IBM Fellow and CTO of IBM Watson AI Operations
Ranit Aharonov
Co-leader of the Project Debater team, listed with IBM Research AI on the 2021 Nature paper and with IBM Research on the 2022 Label Sleuth paper (earlier role)
Co-led IBM Research's Project Debater team and co-wrote its 2021 Nature paper
Stefanie Chiras
VP of Offering Management (earlier role)
Senior Vice President, The Open Accelerator at Red Hat; previously led Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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