Alaa Youssef

Alaa Youssef is a Senior Manager and Master Inventor at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He leads the cloud native AI platform research team, contributing to IBM’s Watsonx and OpenShift AI platforms for training, tuning and inference of large generative AI and foundational models. His research interests are in hybrid cloud, cloud native AI and HPC platforms, resource management and optimization, sustainable and trusted distributed cloud computing. He has co-authored technical publications in top conferences, received two best paper awards, and has over 40 patent inventions.

Dr Youssef is currently co-leader of the Hybrid Cloud & AI thrust of IBM-Illinois Discovery Accelerator Institute, where he is co-leading a number of research collaborative initiatives between IBM Research and UIUC, in the areas of hybrid cloud platform and infrastructure for AI, model optimization and runtimes, and agentic systems.

Dr Youssef has held multiple technical and management positions in IBM Research, and in IBM Software Services in multiple geographies, including USA, Egypt, and KSA. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Old Dominion University, Virginia, USA, and his BSc and MSc in Computer Engineering from Alexandria University, Egypt.