Here are profiles of just a few of the talented researchers who work with IBM clients to solve complex business issues:
Chidanand Apte
Chid Apte uses his expertise in advanced analytics techniques to help clients extract business intelligence from mountains of data.
Richard Boedi
Richard Boedi has been helping to make supply chain transformation a reality.
Kate Ehrlich
As the leader of the IBM Research Services Collaboration micropractice, Kate thoroughly enjoys the challenge of bringing diverse people and perspectives of different disciplines together to create real client solutions.
Xing Fang
With user experience a prime differentiator for e-commerce businesses, HiPODS engineer Xing Fang is helping develop performance improvement methodologies that can be shared across industries and platforms.
Dagan Gilat
In today's hotly competitive global market, Haifa Research Lab senior manager Dagan Gilat is working on cutting edge technologies to help transform business processes and create new business strategy models.
Tyrone Grandison
The rapid expansion of the Internet has accelerated the move toward the digitization of a vast trove of personal information and IBM data disclosure manager Tyrone Grandison is helping devise new technologies to protect that data from unauthorized access.
Mary Helander
After working in both academia and consulting, Mary understands the importance of discipline in defining and solving operations problems.
Joe Jasinksi
In an era when healthcare systems are under pressure around the world, IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences Program Director Joe Jasinski is helping the medical community transform the practice and delivery of healthcare through the help of IT solutions.
Jayant R. Kalagnanam
Jayant R. Kalagnanam’s research focuses on decision support, optimization, economics and their applications to electronic commerce.
Sheng Lu
With network performance a key component of successful e-commerce businesses, HiPODS engineer Sheng Lu is helping develop network performance analysis tools that can pinpoint problems that hamper Web operations and slow down network performance.
Hiroshi Maruyama
Hiroshi Maruyama is unique in that he is an expert in both XML/Web services and security.
Nathaniel Mills
IBM Researcher Nat Mills is applying his expertise in advanced analytics to help improve performance monitoring and maintenance scheduling for complex systems.
Michael Osborne
Operating in an environment that increasingly relies on technology to ensure secure identity verification and authentication, research staff member Michael Osborne is helping develop Secure ID solutions that address governments' and businesses' safety concerns while protecting personal privacy.
Gyana Parija
For optimization experts like Gyana Parija, stochastic optimization is all about using scenario trees to support decision-making in uncertain environments.
Changrui Ren
Changrui Ren is working to develop process-centric supply chain transformation tools.
Guy Sharon
In the fiercely competitive financial services industry, IBM Haifa Research Lab staff member Guy Sharon uses his expertise in the field of active and event-driven technology to devise a customer alert system based on complex event processing technology.
Wenjun Yin
In an era when location can dictate the success or failure of retail ventures, Wenjun Yin is helping clients use technology to find the right location with the right mix of merchandise for the right customer.
Olaf Zimmermann
As more companies move toward Web-based services as a way to improve customer service and business operations, research staff member and executive IT architect Olaf Zimmermann is lending his expertise to architectural decision modeling and SOA and Web services design.
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