Dr. P. (Gopal) Gopalakrishnan is an experienced technology leader, startup founder, teacher, and mentor. He works with companies of various sizes to guide their strategy and technology directions. He is also a co-founder of a conversational AI startup company. He is an experienced teacher, having spent time as an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Fairfield University in Fairfield, CT. He has successfully led product innovations, research, and technology strategy over the course a distinguished career. He was formerly the Vice President, Corporate Technology, IBM Corporation, Armonk, NY, where he was responsible for facilitating the development of strategic directions of technologies for the company. Prior to this role he led various research and development organizations within IBM as the Vice President of the IBM India Software Lab and Director of the IBM India Research Lab. He is an early pioneer of AI and machine learning, having started his research career in speech recognition, natural language and conversational systems. He has published in many peer-reviewed conferences and journals, has co-authored over twenty patents and earned several technical awards. Dr. Gopalakrishnan received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1986 where he has been inducted into the Alumni Hall of Fame.
Alumni Hall Of Fame
Ponani Gopalakrishnan

Graduation Year:
1986
Dissertation:
Parellel Approximate Algorithms for Combinatorialy Hard Problems
Inductees

Narendra Ahuja
PhD 1979

Michael Antonov
Bachelor's 2003

J. Gary Augustson
Master's 1969

David Baggett
Bachelor's 1992

Suman Banerjee
PhD 2003

Sergey Brin
Bachelor's 1993

Paul Capriolo
Bachelor's 2006

Anthony Casalena
Bachelor's 2005

Charles Dyer
PhD 1979
Martín Farach-Colton
PhD 1991

Gary Flake
PhD 1993

Greg Frederickson
PhD 1977

Terry Gaasterland
PhD 1992

Rajiv Gandhi
PhD 2003

Howard Gobioff
Bachelor's 1993

Ponani Gopalakrishnan
PhD 1986

Naresh Gupta
PhD 1993

Patrick Jenkins
Bachelor's 2006

Subbarao Kambhampati
PhD 1989

Vipin Kumar
PhD 1982

Ronald Larsen
PhD 1981

Haroon Mokhtarzada
Bachelor's 2001

Idris Mokhtarzada
Bachelor's 2010

Zeki Mokhtarzada
Bachelor's 2001

Shmuel Peleg
PhD 1979

Andrew Reisse
Bachelor's 2001

Glenn Ricart
PhD 1980

Debanjan Saha
PhD 1995

S. Cenk Sahinalp
PhD 1997

Pooja Sankar
Master's 2004

Jagdeep Singh
Bachelor's 1987

Aya Soffer
PhD 1995

Lee Spector
PhD 1992

Granger Sutton
PhD 1992

Gordon Vanderbrug
PhD 1977

Qiang Yang
PhD 1989
