Sriram Raghavan

Career

Sriram Raghavan began an IBM career of more than two decades at the Almaden Research Center, leading research efforts in natural language processing, data management, and distributed systems. Raghavan later directed the IBM Research Lab in India and served as Chief Technology Officer for IBM India and South Asia.¹²

As Vice President, IBM Research AI, Raghavan led a worldwide research team across IBM Research locations, set the agenda for foundational and applied AI research, and oversaw technology transfer into IBM's software business. In that period Raghavan was also the IBM chair of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab.²³¹

Raghavan is now General Manager of IBM Software, India, leading the country's software engineering and product management organization, and General Manager of the Software Innovation Lab, a global group of scientists and engineers that works with IBM Research to turn research into software products.¹

Research and writing

Raghavan's IBM Research publication list includes the 2010 ACL paper on SystemT, an algebraic approach to declarative information extraction, and the 2011 SIGMOD paper on the SystemT IDE, along with later work on search database systems, analytic workflows on Hadoop, and indexing and matching trajectories.⁴²

On the IBM Research blog, Raghavan wrote an April 2023 deep dive on how IBM tailors generative AI for enterprises, co-wrote a May 2023 post on IBM's geospatial foundation model with Christina Shim, and co-signed the 2024 IBM Research annual letter with Mukesh Khare and Jay Gambetta.²

Work and contributions

• SystemT Published research

  Co-author, with Laura Chiticariu, Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, Yunyao Li, Frederick Reiss, and Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, of "SystemT: An Algebraic Approach to Declarative Information Extraction" (ACL 2010); Raghavan's IBM Research profile also lists the SIGMOD 2011 paper on the SystemT IDE.⁴²

• IBM Research AI agenda

  As Vice President, IBM Research AI, Raghavan was responsible for establishing and executing IBM Research's AI research agenda and for transferring technology from IBM Research to IBM's software business, according to IBM's newsroom biography and the IBM Research and MIT-IBM lab profiles.¹²³

Timeline

1. 2010Co-authored "SystemT, An Algebraic Approach to Declarative Information Extraction" at ACL 2010.⁴
2. 2011Co-authored the SIGMOD 2011 paper on the SystemT IDE for information extraction rules.²
3. Apr 28, 2023Wrote the IBM Research deep dive on tailoring generative AI for enterprises.²
4. May 9, 2023Co-wrote the IBM Research post on IBM's geospatial foundation model.²
5. Jan 30, 2025Co-signed the 2024 IBM Research annual letter with Mukesh Khare and Jay Gambetta.²

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.

• Vice President, IBM Research AI; IBM Chair, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, IBM Research¹²³
• Director of the IBM Research Lab in India and Chief Technology Officer for IBM India and South Asia, IBM Research¹²

Honors and recognition

• IBM Corporate and IBM Research Accomplishment Awards · IBM¹²

Where they work

• IBM 29 people in the wiki

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