People

Steering Committee

Lisa Amini

DE, Director - IBM Research Cambridge; AI Automation & Scaling; AIHN

Rebecca Doerge

Provost, RPI

Jeff Burns

Director, IBM Research AI Hardware Center

Robert Hull

Track 3 Lead - Vice President for Research, Henry Burlage Jr. Professor of Engineering, and Director of Center for Materials, Devices, and Integrated Systems

Sudhir Gowda

Director, IBM Exploratory Science & Academic Research

John Kolb

Track 4 Lead - Vice President and Head of RPI Future of Computing Institute (FOCI)

Track Leads

Pin-Yu Chen

Track 1 Lead - Principal Research Scientist; Chief Scientist, RPI-IBM AI Research Collaboration

Jim Hendler

Track 1 Lead - Director, FCRC, Tetherless World Senior Constellation Professor of Computer, Web and Cognitive Science

Kaoutar El Maghraoui

Track 2 Lead - Principal Research Scientist and Manager, AIU Spyre Model Enablement, AI Hardware Center

Chris Carothers

Track 2 Lead - Professor and Director, Center for Computational Innovations (CCI)

Ching-tzu Chen

Track 3 Lead - Senior Research Scientist at IBM

Robert Hull

Track 3 Lead - Vice President for Research, Henry Burlage Jr. Professor of Engineering, and Director of Center for Materials, Devices, and Integrated Systems

Jeannette (Jamie) Garcia

Track 4 Lead - Technical Program Director, Algorithms & Partnerships, IBM Quantum; Sr Location Executive, Almaden Lab

John Kolb

Track 4 Lead - Vice President and Head of RPI Future of Computing Institute (FOCI)

Administrative Team

Jim Hendler

Track 1 Lead - Director, FCRC, Tetherless World Senior Constellation Professor of Computer, Web and Cognitive Science

Ho-Cheol Kim

Program Director - Academic Research Programs, Senior Research Scientist at IBM

Kathleen (Kathy) Fontaine

Program Manager; Sr. Lecturer, IT and Web Science (ITWS); Tetherless World Constellation

Sheba Hargrove

Sr. Business Administrator

Lauren Alvarado

Project Administrator, RPI

Michele Murray

Project Administrator, RPI