Arvind Krishna
Arvind Krishna
Chairman And Chief Executive Officer, IBM
Elected to the Academy in 2025

Education

Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur), 1985, BTech, Electrical Engineering; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1987, MS, Electrical Engineering; 1991, PhD, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Professional Areas

Seasoned expertise as a technologist and business leader who drove IBM’s development of transformative technologies, including enterprise-focused data and AI platforms, hybrid cloud software and infrastructure, and quantum computing, Contributions to wireless networking, databases, security, and open technology standards.

Citation

Led a redefinition of the hybrid cloud market, making it the destination for the world’s massive computing needs, and the creation of a business-centric AI platform capable of running and customizing diverse AI models. Pioneered the deployment of 80 quantum systems on which users have run over 3 trillion programs.