Tilak Agerwala
Tilak Agerwala is vice president, systems at IBM Research. He is responsible for developing the next-generation technologies for IBM’s systems, from microprocessors to commercial systems and supercomputers, as well as novel supercomputing algorithms and applications.
Dr. Agerwala joined IBM at the T.J. Watson Research Center and has held executive positions at IBM in research, advanced development, development, marketing and business development. His research interests are in the area of high performance computer architectures and systems.
Dr. Agerwala received the W. Wallace McDowell Award from the Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEEE) in 1998 for “outstanding contributions to the development of high performance computers.” He is a founding member of the IBM Academy of Technology. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
He received his B.Tech. in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Johns Hopkins University.
