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