Personnel

Institute Co-Directors

David Cahill (UIUC)
Professor and Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering
The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois
1022 Superconductivity Center, Urbana, IL
d-cahill@illinois.edu
cahill.matse.illinois.edu 
(217) 333-6753

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

Alaa Youssef (IBM)
Deming Chen (UIUC)



Sustainability 

Hendrik Hamann (IBM)
Jingrui He (UIUC)

Quantum Computing 

Ruchi Pendse  (IBM)
Replace with: Andre Schleife (UIUC)

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion 

Sudhir Gowda (IBM)
Jonathan Makela (UIUC)

Materials Discovery 

Teodoro Laino  (IBM)
Huimin Zhao (UIUC)



Entrepreneurship 

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