Ruchir Puri
Chief Scientist of IBM Research and IBM Fellow; first author of the Project CodeNet dataset paper
- Chief Scientist, IBM Research; IBM Fellow; Vice President, IBM Technology & Technical Community, IBM Research1
Ruchir Puri is the Chief Scientist of IBM Research, an IBM Fellow, and Vice President of IBM Technology and Technical Community, according to the IBM Research profile. The profile notes that Puri led IBM Watson as its CTO and Chief Architect from 2016 to 2019. Puri is the first author of the 2021 paper introducing CodeNet, an AI-for-code dataset whose IBM/Project_CodeNet repository (Apache-2.0) provides processing tools and a download link for the full dataset, and a co-author of IBM's Granite Code models paper, whose models were released under the Apache 2.0 license. Puri also appears among the authors of ITBench, a benchmark for AI agents on IT automation tasks.12345
Work
IBM Granite Code modelsOpen weights
Listed among the authors of "Granite Code Models: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence" (2024), which introduces decoder-only code models from 3 to 34 billion parameters and states that all Granite Code models are released under an Apache 2.0 license.4
Project CodeNet (external site: github.com)Open data
First author of "CodeNet: A Large-Scale AI for Code Dataset for Learning a Diversity of Coding Tasks" (2021). The IBM/Project_CodeNet repository, whose code is under the Apache-2.0 license, provides tools for the dataset and download instructions for the full dataset.23
ITBench (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Listed among the authors of "ITBench: Evaluating AI Agents across Diverse Real-World IT Automation Tasks" (2025).5
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.
- CTO and Chief Architect (2016–2019), IBM Watson1
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