Yorktown Heights

The Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY is the global headquarters of IBM Research, the largest industrial research organization in the world. The facility, designed by Eero Saarinen and completed in 1961, is home to over 1,500 scientists, engineers, and designers inventing what’s next in computing. Many of IBM’s most notable technical breakthroughs in quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and semiconductors have taken place here. Visitors are hosted in IBM’s premier Think Lab, which houses multiple IBM Quantum systems as well as an experimental AI-optimized cloud-native supercomputer.

Meet the team

These are the researchers, scientists, engineers, and designers who invent what’s next in computing.
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Darío Gil
Senior Vice President and Director of IBM Research Gender Pronouns: He, Him, His
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Mukesh Khare
General Manager: IBM Semiconductors & Vice President: Hybrid Cloud
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Ruchir Puri
Chief Scientist, IBM Research; IBM Fellow; Vice President, IBM Technology & Technical Community
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T.c. Chen
Vice President, Strategy, Science & Technology, IBM Fellow
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Think Lab

The role of the Global Think Labs is to make what’s next in computing actionable for our clients. We offer a stimulating environment to explore future technologies and their transformational impact on business and society. The Think Lab in Yorktown is both a working lab and a collaboration space where we share our vision for the future of computing with clients and collaborators. This vision includes how we continue to scale silicon transistors, develop new chip architectures for AI workloads, how we plan to advance the science of foundation models and bring their power to the enterprise, and our vision for quantum centric supercomputing.

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Projects

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Utilizing APIs by Autonomous AI with LLMs

Utilizing APIs and Planning Autonomous AI powered by Large Language Models

Snap machine learning test

A library that provides high-speed training of popular machine learning models on modern CPU/GPU computing systems.

AutoAI for text

Scaling AI technologies for NLP and text data to a large variety of users.

Human Computer Interaction for AI - Human in the Loop

Insights into Human AI Interaction will help us drive the design of AI systems and understand their implications for individuals and society.

Drug discovery technologies

Combining the latest AI with modeling and simulation of protein-ligand complexes.

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1101 Kitchawan Rd
Yorktown Heights, NY
10598

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