TILOS Seminar: Engineering the Future of Software with AI

Dr. Ruchir Puri, Chief Scientist, IBM Research, IBM Fellow, Vice-President IBM Corporate Technology

Software has become woven into every aspect of our society, and it will be fair to say that “Software has eaten the world”. More recently, advances in AI are starting to transform every aspect of our society as well. These two tectonic forces of transformation – “Software” and “AI” are colliding together resulting in a seismic shift – a future where software itself will be built, maintained, and operated by AI – pushing us towards a future where “Computers can program themselves!” In this talk, we will discuss these forces of “AI for Code” and how the future of software engineering is being redefined by AI.

Dr. Ruchir Puri is the Chief Scientist of IBM Research, an IBM Fellow, and Vice-President of IBM Corporate Technology. He led IBM Watson as its CTO and Chief Architect from 2016-19 and has held various technical, research, and engineering leadership roles across IBM’s AI and Research businesses. Dr. Puri is a Fellow of the IEEE, and has been an ACM Distinguished Speaker, an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, and was awarded 2014 Asian American Engineer of the Year. Ruchir has been an adjunct professor at Columbia University, NY, and a visiting scientist at Stanford University, CA. He was honored with John Von-Neumann Chair at Institute of Discrete Mathematics at Bonn University, Germany. Dr. Puri is an inventor of over 70 United States patents and has authored over 100 scientific publications on software-hardware automation methods, microprocessor design, and optimization and AI algorithms. He is the chair of AAAI-IAAI conference that focused on industrial applications of AI. Ruchir is the recipient of the prestigious Distinguished Alumnus Award from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur in 2022.