Darío Gil

Board of Governors

Senior Vice President and Director of IBM Research

Dr. Darío Gil is IBM Senior Vice President and Director of Research.

Dr. Gil is responsible for IBM Research, one of the world’s largest and most influential corporate research labs. He directs innovation strategies in hybrid cloud, AI, semiconductors, quantum computing, and exploratory science. He heads the technical community of IBM and is responsible for the company’s intellectual property strategy and business.

Dr. Gil is also the Chair of the National Science Board (NSB), which oversees the National Science Foundation (NSF). An advocate of collaborative research models, he co-chairs the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, which advances fundamental AI research to benefit of industry and society. He also co-chairs the Executive Board of the International Science Reserve, a global network of open scientific communities that provides specialized resources to prepare for and help mitigate urgent, complex global challenges.       

Dr. Gil has served on the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and is a member of the President’s Research Council of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), MIT School of Engineering Dean’s Advisory Council, and the Aspen Global Cybersecurity Group. He serves on the boards of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the New York Academy of Sciences, the New York Hall of Science, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).        

Dr. Gil is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.