Ruchir Puri
About Ruchir Puri
Dr. Ruchir Puri is the Chief Scientist of IBM Research, an IBM Fellow, and Vice-President of IBM Corporate Technology. He led IBM Watson as its CTO and Chief Architect from 2016-19 and has held various technical, research, and engineering leadership roles across IBM’s AI and Research businesses. Dr. Puri is a Fellow of the IEEE, and has been an ACM Distinguished Speaker, an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, and was awarded 2014 Asian American Engineer of the Year. Ruchir has been an adjunct professor at Columbia University, NY, and a visiting scientist at Stanford University, CA. He was honored with John Von-Neumann Chair at Institute of Discrete Mathematics at Bonn University, Germany. Dr. Puri is an inventor of over 70 United States patents and has authored over 100 scientific publications on AI for code, Responsible AI, Semiconductor chip design and optimization algorithms. He was the chair of AAAI-IAAI conference that focused on industrial applications of AI and is the founder of IEEE symposium on LLM Aided Design supported by NSF and ACM. Ruchir is the recipient of the prestigious Distinguished Alumnus Award from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur in 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruchir_Puri