ARMONK, N.Y. - 14 Apr 2016: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today named 11 new IBM Fellows, the company s most prestigious technical honor. The new Fellows are being honored for pioneering work in areas including cognitive computing, analytics, cloud, security, mobile and healthcare. As Fellows, these individuals will have the opportunity to dedicate significant time to free-form exploration and innovation in their areas of expertise.
IBM today named 11 new IBM Fellows, the company s most prestigious technical honor. The new Fellows are being honored for pioneering work in areas including cognitive computing, analytics, cloud, security, mobile and healthcare. Pictured from left to right are the 2016 IBM Fellows: Adam Kocoloski, Ajay Royyuru, Shankar Kalyana, Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood, Mac Devine, Blaine Dolph, Gosia Steinder, Bill Kostenko, Stacy Joines, JR Rao, Salim Roukos (Credit: Jon Simon/Feature Photo Service for IBM)
These extraordinary men and women join a select community made up of some of the world's most creative thinkers, said Ginni Rometty, IBM chairman, president and CEO. Our new IBM Fellows play a critical role in defining the next era of technology, business and society, with vital contributions to IBM's position as the world's leading cognitive solutions and cloud platform company.
The IBM Fellow distinction is conferred in recognition of exceptional and sustained technical achievements and leadership in engineering, programming, services, science, technology and industry solutions. Collectively, the 11 new Fellows have 172 patents.
This year's Fellows are transforming business and society with technical advancements, developments and research. For example, Director of IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences Research Ajay Royyuru is using Watson for Genomics to translate genomic variations in cancer to treatment options. IBM's Chief Scientist for Medical Sieve Radiology Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood is developing automated, cognitive radiology and cardiology technology that is aimed at helping clinicians in their decision-making. Director of IBM Security Research JR Rao is addressing emerging challenges in security and privacy with cognitive computing, data and analytics. IBM Cloud Computing Scientist Gosia Steinder is greatly simplifying application lifecycle management with container cloud research.
Past IBM Fellows, who include a Kyoto Prize winner and five Nobel Prize winners, have fostered some of business and society's most significant breakthroughs from the IBM Watson cognitive system, to the systems that helped put the first man on the moon, and the first instrument to image atoms.
To be awarded IBM's pre-eminent technical honor, an employee must meet four important criteria:
Sustained innovation in some of the world s most important technologies
Significant recognition as a leader among IBM s technical communities
Broad industry acknowledgement of the individual's accomplishments
A strong history of new technologies and business models being deployed at scale
The program was founded in 1962 by Thomas J. Watson, Jr. to promote creativity among the company s most exceptional technical professionals. IBM has named 278 Fellows since the program's inception. Collectively, IBM Fellows have 9,329 patents.
2016 IBM Fellows
Mac Devine Cloud Computing and Internet of Things
IBM Cloud
As Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Networking and Innovation Services within IBM's Cloud division, Mac Devine has helped shape the company's cloud computing and Internet of Things strategies, including IBM's acquisitions of SoftLayer, Cloudant, Fiberlink, Ustream and The Weather Company. Mac is a master innovator who constantly pushes IBM into new technology areas and finds innovative ways to leverage open source and its ecosystem. As an IBM Fellow, Mac will be responsible for defining the architecture and setting the technical direction for leveraging emerging technology used for supporting hyperscale workloads. He will also focus on advanced innovations to extend IBM s presence into Edge of Network in support of Internet of Things, data-as-a-service, video services and cyber security.
Blaine Dolph Apple IBM Partnership
IBM Global Business Services
Blaine Dolph is Chief Technology Officer of the Apple IBM Global Partnership. He is also an IBM Master Inventor with more than 40 patents filed. Blaine has been instrumental in launching the technical strategy for several IBM organizations, including IBM Interactive, IBM Global Mobile Center of Competence and most recently the Apple IBM Global Partnership. As an IBM Fellow, Blaine will continue to serve as CTO of the Apple IBM Global Partnership, while also offering technical leadership and guidance to The Weather Company, an IBM Business, and IBM's Global Partnerships with Box and Twitter.
Stacy Joines Performance Engineering
IBM Watson
Stacy Joines is the Chief Technology Officer of Watson Client Implementations. In this position, Stacy builds on her contributions to the field of performance to deliver robust cognitive solutions. She has a long history of delivering and sustaining IBM s high-volume clients in the WebSphere Application Server and Smarter Commerce spaces. As an IBM Fellow, Stacy will apply the concepts of performance and end-user workload metrics to the era of cognitive computing.
Shankar Kalyana Cloud Business Solutions
IBM Global Business Services
Shankar Kalyana has worked for IBM in the US and India, helping clients across banking, government, automotive and other industries transform their organizations using cloud computing. Shankar Kalyana is currently serving as Vice President, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technology Officer of IBM Cloud Business Solutions. Shankar's noteworthy technical accomplishments include launching the IBM Cloud Business S
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