Presenter

Kaoutar El Maghraoui is a principal research staff member at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center where she is focusing on innovations at the intersection of systems, infrastructure and artificial intelligence (AI). She leads the experimental AI testbed of IBM Research AI Hardware Center, a global research hub focusing on enabling next-generation accelerators and systems for AI workloads. She co-led IBM’s Global Technology Outlook in 2017 where she contributed to creating IBM’s vision for the future of IT across global labs and business units focusing on IBM’s AI leadership. Kaoutar has co-authored several patents, conference, and journal publications in the areas of systems research, distributed systems, high performance computing, and AI. Kaoutar holds a PhD. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA. Kaoutar is global vice-chair of the Arab Women in Computing organization, avid supporter and active member in many women in science and technology initiatives.