Meet this year’s IBM Fellows
Ann Corrao
CTO & Distinguished Engineer, IBM Services for Managed Applications
She started playing green-screen games on a mainframe when she was seven years old. Now she’s CTO of IBM Services for Managed Applications.
Chris Ferris
CTO, Open Technology
Working in the ever-evolving world of blockchain and Hyperledger, he trusts his subconscious to work out complicated issues while he’s otherwise occupied.
Elpida Tzortzatos
IBM Z Architect & Distinguished Engineer
Starting with an early knack for math, her passion has inspired her innovation — most recently heading AI initiatives for the IBM Z platform.
Gustavo Stolovitzky
Master Inventor and Program Director, IBM Research
Between crowdsourcing computational biology challenges and earning a fifth-degree black belt in karate, he’s busy researching nanobiotechnology.
Laxmi Parida
Distinguished Research Scientist & Manager, IBM Research
Whether working on genomics, farm efficiency or a safer food supply chain, she gets to the DNA of a problem — literally.
Ram Viswanathan
Distinguished Engineer & CTO, IBM GBS Blockchain Services
With a passion for constant reinvention, he has run countless global projects — and 60 marathons after recovering from a broken leg.
Rama Akkiraju
Master Inventor & Distinguished Engineer, Watson AI
To unwind from leading operations involved with Watson's emotions and multilingual abilities, she relaxes to Carnatic classical music.
Rashik Parmar
Distinguished Engineer & CTO for Europe
He looks at the future of work in enterprises as they become AI-infused and cloud-native, and has written a book about happiness.
IBM Fellows by the numbers
as of April 10, 2019