New York: New York intellectual property law association presented the prestigious award of “Inventor of the Year award” to Indo-American Scientist Dr. Rajiv Joshi. An IIT Mumbai alumnus, Dr Joshi has an MS degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a PhD in mechanical/electrical engineering from Columbia University, New York.

Dr. Joshi bagged the award for his recognition of his pioneering work in advancing the electronic industry and improving artificial intelligence capabilities. Dr. Joshi is a master inventor with more than 250 patented inventions in the US, works at the IBM Thomson Watson Research Center in New York. His invention span from novel interconnect structures and processes for more scaling, machine learning techniques for predictive failure analytics, high bandwidth, high performance and low power integrated circuits and memories and their usage in hardware accelerators, meant for artificial intelligence applications.

Many of these structures exist in processors, supercomputers, laptops, smart phones, handheld and variable gadgets and many other electronic items.

His innovations have advanced day-to-day life, global communication, health sciences and medical fields impacting the world. In his acceptance speech, Dr Joshi said that cloud, artificial intelligence and quantum computing not only remain the buzzwords, but their utility; widespread usage is advancing with leaps and bounds.

I have been dabbling further in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and quantum computing,” he said. Quantum computing, which has offered tremendous opportunities, also faces challenges, he noted, adding that he is involved in advancing technology, improving memory structures and solutions and their usage in AI and contributing to quantum computing to advance the science.