Sriram Raghavan

Sriram Raghavan is Vice President at IBM Research for AI (artificial intelligence). In this role, he leads a worldwide team of over 750 research scientists and engineers across all IBM Research locations who are advancing the field of AI and accelerating its applications to the digital transformation of enterprises. Sriram is responsible for establishing and executing a wide-ranging research agenda that spans foundational and applied AI. He also has overall responsibility for the R&D portfolio and transfer of technology from IBM Research to IBM’s multi-billion dollar software business.

Prior to his current role, Sriram was the Director of the IBM Research Lab in India and the CTO for IBM in India/South Asia. Sriram began his career in IBM at the Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, USA where he led a variety of research efforts in natural language processing, data management, and distributed systems. Sriram is an alumnus of Stanford University, USA and the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India. He is a recipient of multiple IBM Corporate and IBM Research Accomplishment Awards and a member of the technical advisory board of the Robert Bosch Center for Data Science & AI.