Ruchir Puri
Ruchir Puri | |
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| Occupation(s) | Scientist, Chief Scientist at IBM Research, CTO and principal architect of IBM Watson |
| Known for | IBM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, IBM Master Inventor, ACM Distinguished Speaker, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer |
| Awards | IBM Fellow (2012), IEEE Fellow (2007), Asian American Engineer of the Year Award (2014), SRC Outstanding Mentor Award (2008), Best of IBM Award (2011, 2012) |
Ruchir Puri is a distinguished Indian American scientist who serves as the Chief Scientist at IBM Research. He is also the CTO and principal architect behind IBM Watson, holds the prestigious title of IBM Fellow, and has been recognized as a Fellow of the IEEE. Additionally, Puri is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology, an IBM Master Inventor, an ACM Distinguished Speaker, and has been honored as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. He earned the Semiconductor Research Corporation's Outstanding Mentor Award for his dedication to guiding academic research. His academic engagements include roles as a visiting scientist in Stanford University's Department of Computer Science and as an adjunct professor in Columbia University's Department of Electrical Engineering. Furthermore, he was appointed to the John Von-Neumann Chair at the Institute of Discrete Mathematics at Bonn University in Germany. In 2014, he was honored with the Asian American Engineer of the Year Award. With over 50 U.S. patents to his name and more than 100 publications—including a book titled Analyzing Analytics—Puri is also committed to fostering technology education among youth by supporting robotics initiatives such as the FIRST LEGO League.
Selected awards and honors
- IBM Fellow, awarded in 2012
- IEEE Fellow, recognized in 2007 for advancements in automated logical and physical design of electronic circuits
- ACM Distinguished Speaker since 2006
- SRC – GRC Outstanding Mentor Award for contributions to academic research and student mentorship, received in 2008
- IEEE Circuits and Systems Distinguished Lecturer during 2010–2011
- Asian American Engineer of the Year Award, presented in 2014
- Best of IBM Award recipient in both 2011 and 2012
- IBM Master Inventor designation granted in 2009
- Inducted into the IBM Academy of Technology in 2009
- Held the John Von-Neumann Chair at Bonn University, Germany, in 2011