IBM Research Chief Scientist Ruchir Puri On Quantum Computing And No Code Machine Learning

Dr. Ruchir Puri is the Chief Scientist of IBM Research, an IBM Fellow, and Vice President of IBM Technical Community. 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 120 scientific publications on software-hardware automation methods, microprocessor design, and optimization and AI algorithms. He was the chair of AAAI-IAAI conference that focused on industrial applications of AI and has been a keynote speaker at numerous leading industry, academic, and government conferences. Ruchir’s technical opinions on the adoption of AI by society and businesses have been featured across New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, IEEE spectrum among other.