Israel

At IBM Research – Israel we champion open innovation, teaming with scientists from industry and academia to contribute to product and publication breakthroughs in natural language understanding, computer vision, quantum computing, security, automation, and accelerated discovery for healthcare and life science. We just celebrated our 50th year of inventing what’s next. Our lab continues to bring together some of the most brilliant minds in Israel to think, invent, and enjoy.

Researchers at IBM Research - Israel are at the forefront of IBM's work developing innovations and breakthroughs in such areas as AI, quantum computing, cloud, data security, and accelerated drug discovery.

Research Areas

Artificial Intelligence

We are innovating and developing core technologies in natural language processing and generation, conversational AI, computer vision, speech technologies, optimization, and AI trust, to solve business problems in customer care, business analytics, process automation, and asset management.

Hybrid Cloud

The Israel teams deliver critical components to the infrastructure and platform of IBM Public Cloud to make it an open, reliable, secure, performant public cloud. These features are essential for a cloud that serves enterprise mission-critical and data-intensive applications.

Security

Our research covers the entire range of security solutions, including: data and AI security, privacy, cloud security, threat management, attack simulation, privacy preserving analytics, fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), blockchain, and central bank digital currency.

Accelerated Discovery

We are developing causal inference technologies and multimodal learning models that leverage the most advanced deep learning and generative models, aimed at accelerating molecules and biomarker discovery.

Machine Learning for Drug Development and Causal Inference

Combining foundation models with causal inference to accelerate early drug development
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Accelerated Discovery Technology

Enabling the scientist and the scientific software developer to rapidly harness the most advanced new techniques in a cloud-native environment.

Quantum Computing

We research methods to characterize and study quantum computing devices and their dynamics under the effect of quantum noise, to improve the utilization of current quantum devices and facilitate their future development.

Academic collaborations

Engage directly with IBM Research – Israel and accelerate your path to innovation. We offer different ways to partner, including industrial projects, internships, grants and fellowships, talks, and more.

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Think Lab

Our Think Lab in Haifa makes what's next in computing actionable for IBM employees, partners, and clients in Israel. It provides a stimulating environment to explore future technologies and their transformational impact on business and society. The Haifa Think Lab provides a stage primarily for the work of IBM Research – Israel, which is headquartered at the location. With three sites around the country, IBM Research – Israel uses our Think Lab facility to connect IBM researchers and developers in Israel with our partners and clients from throughout the country to understand how IBM’s leading work on AI, multicloud computing, security technologies, quantum computing, and accelerated scientific discovery can positively impact their organizations.

For more information please contact the Haifa Think Lab leader Flora Gilboa-Solomon.

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Meet the team

With locations in Haifa, Givatayim, and Be'er Sheva, IBM Research Israel, is one of our largest labs outside of the US. We're working to solve complex challenges in the world of AI, hybrid cloud, quantum computing, natural language understanding, blockchain, security, quality, and more. This is the place where your research ideas can come to life and make a difference for customers around the world.
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Aya Soffer
Vice President, AI Technologies; Director, IBM Research - Israel
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Gabi Zodik
Director, Decentralized Trust Strategy, IBM Research
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IBM Research – Israel focuses on creating innovation that matters to IBM and people across the globe, through our work on IBM's leading products, contributions to open source projects, and our scientists' breakthrough research.

Publications

IBM researchers in Israel publish a wide variety of work every year as part of their investigative research projects in the lab, in collaboration with other researchers and scientists in IBM, and together with academic and industrial partners from around the world. Researchers at the lab publish works in scientific journals and at a variety of leading conferences and workshops.

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Projects

Global Object Store

Using a global object store to enhance usability, improve performance, and cut network costs.
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Utilizing APIs by Autonomous AI with LLMs

Utilizing APIs and Planning Autonomous AI powered by Large Language Models
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Adversarial Robustness Toolbox

Securing AI models with the Adversarial Robustness Toolbox

Location details

Address

Hashachar Tower
4 Ariel Sharon St.
Givatayim, Israel

+972-74-7922300

Mailing address
c/o IBM Israel
94 Em Hamoshavot Rd.
Petach Tikva, 4970602
Israel

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.