Gustavo A. Stolovitzky

Dr. Gustavo Stolovitzky is and IBM Fellow and the Director of the Translational Systems Biology and Nano-biotechnology Program at IBM Research, and an adjunct Professor at Columbia University. He has led many industry projects at IBM Research while also being heavily involved in academic pursuits through University collaborations. In 2006, Dr. Stolovitzky founded the DREAM Challenges, an open science effort that nucleates a community of researchers to assess the performance of systems biology methods, to foster collaborative models of research and to accelerate the solution of important translational problems. Besides the organization of scientific challenges, Dr. Stolovitzky has published over 150 papers and patented over 60 inventions on high-throughput biological-data analysis, reverse engineering biological circuits, the mathematical modeling of biological processes and nano-biotechnology.

Dr. Stolovitzky joined IBM Research in 1998. Previously he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Studies in Physics and Biology at The Rockefeller University. He received his PhD in mechanical engineering from Yale University (1994) and his MSc in physics from the University of Buenos Aires (1987). Dr Stolovitzky has received Yale University’s Henry Prentiss Becton Prize award (1994), the HENAAC’s Pioneer Award for Great Minds in STEM (2013), the World Technology Awards (2013), and was distinguished as a Master Inventor in IBM Research (2013). Dr. Stolovitzky has been elected Fellow of the NY Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the World Technology Network, Fellow of the American Physical Society and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. In 2019, he was appointed IBM Fellow, the highest technical honor awarded by IBM.