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.

Darío Gil

Senior Vice President and Director of IBM Research Gender Pronouns: He, Him, His

Jay Gambetta

VP of Quantum, IBM Fellow

Sriram Raghavan

Vice President, IBM Research AI

Mukesh Khare

General Manager: IBM Semiconductors & Vice President: Hybrid Cloud

Ruchir Puri

Chief Scientist, IBM Research; IBM Fellow; Vice President, IBM Technology & Technical Community

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.

Take a look inside our newest working compute lab, a physical manifestation of what's next in computing.