Priya Nagpurkar
Vice president at IBM Research, titled VP of AI platform in March 2026; co-author of LLM-serving research
- Vice President of AI Platform (as titled by IBM Research in March 2026), IBM Research1
Priya Nagpurkar is a vice president at IBM Research. IBM Research's March 2026 post on contributing the llm-d distributed inference framework to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation quotes Nagpurkar as vice president of AI platform at IBM Research. In 2023, IBM Research described Nagpurkar as vice president of hybrid cloud platform and developer productivity, overseeing the research behind IBM's hybrid cloud platform. Nagpurkar is a co-author, listed with IBM Research, of a 2025 paper on category-aware semantic caching for LLM serving and of a 2024 IBM Research and University of Illinois white paper on transforming hybrid cloud systems for AI workloads.12345
Work
Category-aware semantic caching for LLM workloads (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Co-author of "Category-Aware Semantic Caching for Heterogeneous LLM Workloads" (2025), which proposes caching policies that vary similarity thresholds, time-to-live, and quotas by query category in LLM serving systems.4
Transforming the Hybrid Cloud for Emerging AI Workloads (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Listed with IBM Research among the authors of a 2024 white paper, developed by IBM Research and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers, on full-stack co-design of hybrid cloud systems for AI workloads.5
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.
- Vice President of Hybrid Cloud Platform and Developer Productivity, IBM Research23
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