ARMONK, N.Y. - 15 Apr 2015: IBM (NYSE: IBM) has awarded 10 of its top technologists, scientists and researchers with the distinction of IBM Fellow, the company's most prestigious technical honor.
"Innovation is the life blood of IBM. The men and women we honor today as 2015 IBM Fellows are the driving force behind that innovation," said Ginni Rometty, IBM chairman, president and CEO. "They are tackling some of the toughest and most urgent technical challenges facing business and society. In the process, they are leading the tech industry into a new era of computing where cognitive systems, Big Data and analytics, cloud, mobile and security technologies are changing the world."
The strategic disciplines represented by the 2015 IBM Fellows range from cloud computing and enterprise systems to predictive analytics and finance industry expertise. In addition to their research and development responsibilities, each of the new Fellows will choose a country from IBM's emerging markets where they will serve as a technical ambassador, continuing a program initiated in 2013.
To be named an IBM Fellow requires achievements across four important criteria:
Sustained innovation in some of the world s most important technologies.
Significant recognition as leaders among IBM's executive and technical communities.
Broad industry acknowledgement of their accomplishments.
A strong history of helping clients successfully deploy new technologies and business models.
Collectively, the 10 new Fellows have filed for 441 patents, of which 289 have been granted so far. IBM generated an industry record 7,534 patents in 2014, marking the 22nd consecutive year it topped the annual list of U.S. patent recipients.
Since the first appointments by Thomas J. Watson, Jr. in 1963, there have been 267 IBM Fellows 95 of whom remain active IBM employees. Watson's vision was to give Fellows significant creative freedom to pursue research and engineering directions that have the potential for transforming the world of information technology.
The 10 new IBM Fellows are:
Donna Eng Dillenberger Mainframe Systems
IBM Research Yorktown Heights, New York
Donna Dillenberger is the global leader of enterprise systems work at IBM Research, continuing a distinguished career of contributions to System Z products -- the mainstays of industries ranging from banking to transportation. Her achievements include innovative work in enabling servers within data centers to share memory resources while using 100 percent of their processing power. In 2014, Donna began working on transforming mainframes to become more cognitive -- enabling interaction with users in a more natural way and developing components that can detect patterns in business data that provide insights that help organizations run better.
Chitra Dorai Financial Industry Analytics
IBM Global Business Services Yorktown Heights, New York
Chitra Dorai is a leader in the field of financial industry analytics. Her achievements include innovations in machine learning, multimedia content analysis, unstructured data mining and computer vision. After years in research, she moved into a role in IBM's consulting business to work closely with clients on some of their greatest challenges. Her recent work is focused on transforming mortgage services in the banking industry. The goal is to reduce the potential for mortgage-driven market crises while enabling people to fulfill their dreams of home ownership.
Michael Factor Cloud Storage
IBM Research Haifa, Israel
Michael Factor is IBM's foremost expert in cloud storage and has been shaping the company's vision, strategy and technical architecture. One of the most important factors in cloud computing is the ability for technology companies to agree on standards that enable cloud systems to interoperate and share data easily. In support of that goal, Michael led IBM s contributions to the storage elements of OpenStack cloud computing standards. He's also leading one of the more promising storage innovations in the Big Data era -- the concept of storlets, a mechanism for moving data processing to the data rather than moving massive amounts of data around within computing systems.
James Steve Fields Power Systems
IBM Systems Austin, Texas
Steve Fields is IBM's leader in Power Systems architecture and design, with responsibility for strategy and technical execution. He was essential to the success of IBM's POWER microprocessors in the UNIX and Linux server markets, and is currently directing the evolution of Power systems for emerging demands, including cloud computing and analytics. His ability to solve problems that span multiple hardware and software disciplines has contributed to the improved performance and quality of IBM Power Systems. He's also a key contributor to IBM's OpenPOWER initiative, which has opened the chip and system architectures for partners to build products on.
Mickey Iqbal Enterprise IT Architecture
IBM Global Technology Services Coppell, Texas
Mickey Iqbal is an expert in designing highly efficient computing systems in data centers on behalf of IBM clients. By using automated management programs to efficiently share computing, storage and networking resources among a large number of servers, data center operators can fully utilize their assets, use space efficiently and better control their energy costs. Mickey works closely with clients to design systems that are custom-fit to their requirements, and has helped more than 1,000 clients worldwide.
Bala Rajaraman Cloud Services
IBM Cloud Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
Bala Rajaraman is a key technical leader in IBM's strategy and product development for cloud computing and IT service management. He was instrumental in conceiving and producing Bluemix, IBM's
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ARMONK, N.Y. - 15 Apr 2015: IBM (NYSE: IBM) has awarded 10 of its top technologists, scientists and researchers with the distinction of IBM Fellow, the company's most prestigious technical honor.
