Michael P. Perrone, Ph.D., AI Partnerships Program Director at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center, leads a class of enterprise risk management students on Dec. 4.
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December 20, 2018
IBM Master Inventor Michael P. Perrone, Ph.D., along with IBM ERM expert Lana Strazhkova, led a class of enterprise risk management students on how to build mind maps around risk scenarios that can be used with IBM's Watson at the School of Risk Management, Insurance and Actuarial Science on Dec. 4.
Dr. Perrone is the AI Partnerships Program Director at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. In that role, he contributes to IBM's research strategy, business models development, and client collaborations An IBM Master Inventor, he possesses more than 20 years of experience in computer science, including cognitive computing, high performance computing, seismic imaging, reservoir modeling, business analytics, graph algorithms, network intrusion detection, financial data stream processing, high-speed text indexing, computational fluid dynamics, image processing, carbon sequestration, bioinformatics and statistical machine learning.
Dr. Perrone has led teams that: won the international 2009 Platts Global Energy Award for Commercial Technology of the Year for the design, optimization and provisioning of Repsol’s Kaleidoscope supercomputer; won the international Graph500 1st Place award five consecutive times; and developed ground breaking computational algorithms.
The ERM students presented their findings to Dr. Perrone on Dec. 18.
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