Kenney Ng

Kenney is a Principal Research Scientist at IBM Research Cambridge and the Science Program Manager for the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab. His research focus is on the development and application of data mining, machine learning, and AI techniques to analyze, model and derive actionable insights from real world data. Previously, he was Senior Manager of the Center for Computational Health and was Principal Investigator on "AI for Healthcare" focused research collaborations with the Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Cleveland Clinic, and JDRF. His prior research areas include information retrieval, speech recognition, probabilistic modeling, topic modeling, and natural language processing. Before IBM Research, he was a senior software engineer and architect in IBM Software Group. Prior to IBM, he was a principal software engineer at iPhrase Technologies and held research positions at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, BBN Technologies, and MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Kenney has Bachelors, Masters, and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association and a Senior member of IEEE. He is a co-author on over 100 scientific publications and a co-inventor on over 25 patents.