Nicholas Fuller
Dr. Nick Fuller is Director of the Global Hybrid Cloud Services organization at IBM Research. In this role, Nick leads a global team of 80 Research professionals and is responsible for providing innovation for and at the intersection of IBM’s Services and Cloud and Cognitive Software portfolios. These innovations span multiple domains in IT Service Management, including: the movement and modernization of legacy workloads to hybrid multicloud environments, Watson-based AIOps and compliance management for hybrid multicloud workloads, and AI-based capabilities for technology support services.
Nick obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Math in1997 from Morehouse College and his PhD in Applied Physics from Columbia University in 2002. In the 17+ years that he has been at IBM Research, he has held multiple technical, leadership and client facing roles working in partnership with various IBM product units and clients. Some key accomplishments during this time include: achieving over ½ $B in innovation-led savings for IBM’s Global Technology Services business over a 3-year period, developing foundational capabilities for IBM’s Cloud business and delivering semiconductor innovation for 5 successive generations of CMOS devices for IBM’s Systems business and OEM Clients.
Nick is an IBM Master Inventor, is the holder of 70+ patents, and has co-authored 75 technical publications. He lives in Long Island, New York with his wife and two sons and in his spare time loves playing soccer, listening to music and writing. To this latter end, he penned his memoirs entitled “Struggle and Progress”. This memoir is a ten-year endeavor detailing his struggle from youth to early adulthood with the absence of his biological father and exposure to crime in his community. Coupled with the lifelong progress he made by combining his passion for science and discovery with the unparalleled support he received from his mother, other pivotal role models and peers.
Tuesday 18th Aug