Ingmar Meijer

Dr. Gerhard Ingmar Meijer is Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM Research – Zurich, Switzerland. His present focus is on Deep Search, an Artificial Intelligence knowledge-ingestion platform. Patent documents were processed at scale to advance search and discovery in the chemistry domain (PatCID).

Dr. Meijer received his Ph.D. degree in physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich in 1999. He joined IBM Research – Zurich in 1999. He was responsible for the materials science aspects of the SiON optical waveguide technology. He then worked on novel memory / neuromorphic devices (Who wins the nonvolatile memory race? Science 319 (2008)). Dr. Meijer pioneered hot-water cooling for energy-efficient computing; a small-scale supercomputer (Aquasar) was built to explore this innovative cooling technology (Cooling energy-hungry data centers, Science 328 (2010)). He was the lead cooling-architect of the supercomputer SuperMUC, Leibniz Rechenzentrum, Germany, the most powerful system in Europe when inaugurated in 2012. Thereafter he used Artificial Intelligence approaches to improve the energy efficiency of corporate datacenters (Volkswagen, Germany).

Dr. Meijer was granted 57 U.S. patents.

EMail: inm@zurich.ibm.com