Summary
Narciso Albarracin is a Technical Product Manager with 10 years of experience translating cutting‑edge AI and cloud research into commercial products, currently leading Accelerated Discovery at IBM Research in Chicago. He has a strong track record in drug and materials discovery—replatforming research toolkits to AWS, launching AI‑assisted reference architectures, and shrinking customer onboarding cycles through pragmatic engineering and partnerships with AWS. Previously he led health‑informatics innovation at ONTOADAPTIVE and major medical associations, creating national standards for cancer protocols and experiential AI labs that mentored winning student teams. He blends deep technical fluency (PyTorch, Ray, Kubernetes, knowledge graphs, Quantum ML) with product strategy and standards work, pairing MS training in HCI and a BSIE foundation to humanize complex systems. Notably, he moves research workflows toward production at scale, evidenced by co‑authored publications and cross‑industry platform migrations.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Human-Computer Interaction, Master of Science (MS) Human-Computer Interaction at DePaul University
BSIE Industrial and Systems Engineering, BSIE Industrial and Systems Engineering at Purdue University