David Cox
Member, Board Of Trustees at IBM
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Cox is a research-driven AI leader with 17 years of experience who currently serves as IBM’s Vice President for Foundational AI and directs the MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab, overseeing global generative AI research. Trained as a neuroscientist (PhD, MIT) and formerly a tenured Harvard professor, he bridges computational neuroscience, high-performance computing, and practical AI systems to move ideas from theory into deployed products. His lab spawned widely used open-source projects such as Hyperopt and Triton, and he co-founded DeepHealth, which produced FDA-cleared medical AI solutions—an unusual blend of rigorous academic output and real-world regulatory success. Known for interdisciplinary collaboration and translating complex models into scalable tooling, he combines deep technical authorship (100+ peer-reviewed papers) with strategic research leadership across industry and academia.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Neuroscience, Ph.D. Neuroscience at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyA.B. Biology and Psychology, A.B. Biology and Psychology at Harvard University
Github Skills (19)
ruby10
homebrew10
simulation9
eye-tracker9
python8
slide8
realtime8
compiler7
plugin5
collections3
machine-learning3
java3
json2
browser1
hpc1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
davidcox/genson
Aug 2011 - Feb 2012
Contributions:56 commits in 6 months
to-jsonarbitraryspacesextensionsjson
coxlab/camera-capture-thing
May 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:14 commits, 1 push in 11 months
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