Personnel

Institute Co-Directors

Deming Chen (UIUC)
Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering
The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois
250 Coordinated Science Lab
dchen@illinois.edu 
Faculty Profile
(217) 244-3922

Fabio Oliveira (IBM)
Senior Research Manager
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
fabolive@us.ibm.com
LinkedIn
(914) 945-1396

Research & Crosscut Thrust Leads

Hybrid Cloud & AI

Alaa Youssef (IBM)
Lav Varshney (UIUC)

Sustainability 

Hendrik Hamann (IBM)
Jingrui He (UIUC)

Quantum Computing 

Ruchi Pendse  (IBM)
Andre Schleife (UIUC)

Scaling Impact through Workforce Development

Sudhir Gowda (IBM)
Jonathan Makela (UIUC)

Materials Discovery 

Teodoro Laino  (IBM)
Huimin Zhao (UIUC)

Scaling Impact through Open Source Ecosystems 

Andrea Greggo (IBM)
Jed Taylor (UIUC)

Associate Director

Rohan Arora (IBM)
Rohan.Arora@ibm.com

Assistant Director

Noni Ledford (UIUC)
IBM-Illinois Discovery Accelerator Institute 
nledford@illinois.edu