About me
Priya Nagpurkar is the Vice President of AI-native Systems research at I.B.M.'s T.J. Watson Research Center in New York. She leads a global team of systems and AI experts working on all interesting aspects of the AI platform -- from scalable, performant, and efficient deployment of AI to the use of AI to transform how systems are built and managed in the future. Her team has worked on multiple influential open-source projects such as Istio, Knative, PyTorch, vLLM, llm-d and contributed to several impactful IBM offerings. Priya’s early work at IBM Research focused on characterizing and optimizing emerging workloads across different layers of the application and system stack, with an emphasis on language runtimes and processor architecture and design. Priya holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is passionate about making computing fast and consumable.
