Shantanu Godbole

Shantanu Godbole leads the IBM Middle East Research Center and is based in Abu Dhabi. He is a senior Technologist and Research manager at IBM with global experience in innovating technology solutions that solve real world problems across domains and has worked closely with IBM product and services teams as well as clients in several countries. With 20 years of experience in data, analytics, and machine learning technology, he has played lead roles in establishing IBM’s Research presence in new geographies and worked to create and drive technical strategies in areas ranging from call center analytics, to blockchain, to agriculture, to climate and sustainability for IBM.

He has been with IBM Research since 2006 and has spent 2 years in the analytics services business of IBM as a Global Analytics Architect building and deploying text mining, speech analytics, and predictive analytics solutions. He is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology. He led the founding and growth of the IBM Center for Blockchain Innovation in Singapore, building solutions in the domains of trade and finance. He has been recognized by several awards including an IBM Corporate Award, the Best of IBM award twice, multiple Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards, an IBM Research Client Award, and a 10-year most influential paper award at PAKDD. He is part of the UN Advisory Group on Cross-border Paperless Trade Facilitation. He has a Ph.D. in machine learning from IIT Bombay and is active in professional service and mentoring.