Dario Gil is the director of IBM Research, one of the world’s largest and most influential corporate research labs, with over 3,000 scientists at 19 locations on six continents. He is the 12th Director in its 75-year history. He leads innovation efforts at IBM, directing research strategies in AI, Cloud, Quantum and Exploratory Science. He is a founder and co-chair of the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium and a member of the National Science Board, the governing body of the National Science Foundation.