Almaden

IBM Research – Almaden is IBM's Silicon Valley innovation lab. Scientists ranging from chemists to physicists, as well as mathematicians, engineers and designers at Almaden are pioneering breakthroughs across disruptive technologies including AI and machine learning, hybrid cloud, quantum computing, security and storage. Their published works and contributions to the scientific community cross several industries, including healthcare, semiconductors, sustainable energy, renewable materials, retail and data privacy. Accomplishments are recognized through thousands of publications, citations, invited talks, industry and academic partnerships and conference chair appointments.

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Meet the team

The team's work builds on a rich history of breakthroughs at Almaden’s unique campus in San Jose, California that include innovations in data storage technology, novel material discovery for sustainability, the distributed relational database, the ability to position individual atoms, and the first data mining algorithms.
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Sandeep Gopisetty
Director & Distinguished Engineer, Enterprise Data & Governance for AI Models
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Jed Pitera
Strategy Co-lead -- Sustainable Materials
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Marina Danilevsky
Senior Research Scientist, Manager - core language and conversational technologies
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Think Lab

The role of the Global Think Labs is to make what’s next in computing actionable for our clients. We offer a stimulating environment to explore future technologies and their transformational impact on business and society. Together with our leading scientists and experts, we offer deeper innovation discussions, enable small group exchanges and host hands-on technology demonstrations. The main focus of client meetings in Almaden is in the areas of materials sciences, AI hardware, sustainability and federated learning.

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Projects

AutoAI for text

Scaling AI technologies for NLP and text data to a large variety of users.
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Analog AI

Making Deep Neural Network systems more capable and energy-efficient.
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Adversarial Robustness Toolbox

Securing AI models with the Adversarial Robustness Toolbox
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Imprecise Probabilistic Logic

Developing a general knowledge representation framework to facilitate effective reasoning over multiple sources of imprecise knowledge.

Location details

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Address

650 Harry Road
San Jose
California 95120-6099

(408) 927-1080

Visitor information

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Join our team

We’re always looking for people excited to make a difference. See our open positions and help us invent what’s next.