Kaoutar El Maghraoui

Adjunct Professor

Dr. Kaoutar El-Maghraoui is a principal research staff member and technical leader at the IBM T.J Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. She is a member of the AI engineering research team at IBM Research AI where she is working on research at the intersection of Systems and Artificial Intelligence. She leads the end-user AI testbed of the IBM Research AI Hardware Center, a global research hub focusing on enabling next-generation chips and systems for AI workloads. In her prior roles, she has conducted research on several aspects of the AIX operating system such as performance, multi-thread and multi-core scheduling, Flash SSD storage, OS crash diagnosis and recovery, interactions with systems architecture, and applying machine learning techniques for OS problem diagnosis and prediction. Kaoutar has co-authored several conference and journal publications in the areas of systems research, distributed systems and high performance computing.
Kaoutar obtained a PhD degree in Computer Science in 2007 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York and a Masters degree in Computer Networks in 2001 from Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco. She was a lecturer of Computer Science in the School of Science and Engineering at Al Akhawayn University in 2001 and 2002. Kaoutar has received several fellowships and awards including the American Association of University Women fellowship, the Robert McNaughton Award for best thesis in computer science at RPI, IBM’s Eminence and Excellence award for leadership in increasing Women’s presence in science and technology, and IBM’s Tier II award for contributions to the foundational POWER software technologies and promoting these systems in Africa. She is a member of the IEEE Computer Society, Society of Women Engineers, and the ACM.
Kaoutar is very passionate about mentoring and promoting the participation of women in STEM fields.

Talks About
#research #systems #artificialintelligence

Preferred Locations
#NorthAmerica