David Cox — CEO

Dr. David Cox is the VP for AI Foundations at IBM Research, responsible globally for core research in generative AI. He is also the IBM Director of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, a first of its kind joint industry-academic research collaboration between IBM and MIT, founded in 2018. Prior to joining IBM, Dr. Cox was the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences and of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, where he held appointments in Computer Science, the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, the Center for Brain Science, and the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. He has received a variety of honors, including the Richard and Susan Smith Foundation Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research, the Google Faculty Research Award in Computer Science, and the Roslyn Abrams Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. He has coauthored over 100 peer-reviewed research manuscripts in the fields of artificial intelligence, high performance computing, and systems and computational neuroscience. His academic lab at Harvard spawn several widely-used open source projects, including Hyperopt, one of the first frameworks for hyperparameter optimization of AI models, and Triton (now OpenAI Triton) a widely used framework acceleration AI computation. While at Harvard, he also co-founded several AI startups, including DeepHealth (acquired by RadNet, Inc.) which developed multiple FDA-cleared medical AI solutions that have been deployed at scale.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI research and development within the healthcare and technology sectors.

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Experience: 18 yrs 7 mos

Skills

Artificial Intelligence
Generative Ai
Research Collaboration
Language Models
Technical Advisory
Neuroscience
Molecular Biology
Healthcare Technology

Career Highlights

Leader in generative AI research at IBM.
Co-founded multiple successful AI startups.
Created widely-enrolled neuroscience online courses.

Work Experience

IBM

Vice President—AI Foundations | IBM Research (2 mos)

Vice President, AI Models, IBM Research (2 yrs 8 mos)

IBM Director, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, IBM Research (8 yrs 1 mo)

LG Electronics

Technical Advisory Board Member (11 mos)

Harvard University

John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Natural Sciences and Engineering and Applied Sciences (1 yr 6 mos)

Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and of Computer Science (5 yrs)

Rowland Fellow (4 yrs 10 mos)

aiden.ai

Advisor (8 mos)

DeepHealth

Co-Founder (1 yr 1 mo)

Education

Ph.D. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A.B. at Harvard University

David Cox

CEO

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States18 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Leader in generative AI research at IBM.
Co-founded multiple successful AI startups.
Created widely-enrolled neuroscience online courses.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI research and development within the healthcare and technology sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AiResearch CollaborationLanguage ModelsTechnical AdvisoryNeuroscienceMolecular BiologyHealthcare Technology

Other Skills

Artificial Neural NetworksExecutive LeadershipAdvisory BoardsResearchHealthcare IndustryLarge Language Models (LLM)Research and Development (R&D)Medical ImagingSoftware DevelopmentDigital MammographyArtificial Intelligence for BusinessDistributed SystemsNatural Language Processing (NLP)LeadershipIndustrial Research

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Experience

Ibm

3 roles

Vice President—AI Foundations | IBM Research

Jan 2026 – Present · 2 mos

Global lead for generative AI research at IBM Research. Responsible for research and development for small and large language models (LLMs/SLMs), as well as adjacent technologies for language model customization and usage.

Artificial Neural NetworksExecutive LeadershipArtificial IntelligenceGenerative AI

Vice President, AI Models, IBM Research

Apr 2023 – Dec 2025 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Lead the development of IBM's Granite family of built-from-scratch enterprise-focused language models. Granite models are efficient, designed for business, and design according to rigorous standards for transparency and ethical data use.

Artificial Neural NetworksExecutive LeadershipArtificial IntelligenceLanguage Models

IBM Director, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, IBM Research

Feb 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 1 mo

Served as the inaugural IBM Director of he MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, a first-of-its-kind $240M, 10-year academic-industrial partnership focused on advanced AI research. MIT-IBM collaborative research projects have resulted in over 1,000 peer-reviewed research publications in top AI venues (NeurIPS, ICML, etc.). Established the MIT-IBM Member Program which allowed leading companies to coinvest in and benefit from the lab. Past and current members include Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC), The London Stock Exchange Group (LON: LSEG), Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX), Shell (NYSE: SHEL), Woodside Energy (NYSE: WDS), and Evonik Industries (XETRA: EVK.D).

Artificial Neural NetworksExecutive LeadershipArtificial IntelligenceResearch Collaboration

Lg electronics

Technical Advisory Board Member

Jan 2021 – Dec 2021 · 11 mos

Member of LG Electronics global technical advisory board, advising on artificial intelligence technology

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Harvard university

3 roles

John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Natural Sciences and Engineering and Applied Sciences

Promoted

Jul 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos

Faculty in the Harvard Center for Brain Science, with academic appointments in Computer Science and Biology.
Research: led a combined neuroscience and AI laboratory with the mission of studying the biological underpinnings of intelligence and using those insights to design artificially intelligent systems. Lab trainee alumni have gone on to become professors at a number of top universities and research institutions (including Oxford, Notre Dame, SISSA, TU Munich, and Harvard Medical School).
Teaching: created “The Fundamentals of Neuroscience,” an online introductory neuroscience Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), with enrollment to date in excess of 750,000 students, making it among the most widely-enrolled courses in its field.

Artificial Neural NetworksResearchArtificial IntelligenceNeuroscience

Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and of Computer Science

Jul 2012 – Jul 2017 · 5 yrs

Artificial Neural NetworksResearchArtificial IntelligenceMolecular Biology

Rowland Fellow

Sep 2007 – Jul 2012 · 4 yrs 10 mos

Artificial Neural NetworksResearchArtificial IntelligenceMolecular Biology

Aiden.ai

Advisor

Jun 2017 – Feb 2018 · 8 mos

Served as a technical advisor to Aiden AI, acquired by Twitter (NASDAQ: TWTR) in 2019.

Artificial Neural NetworksAdvisory BoardsArtificial IntelligenceTechnical Advisory

Deephealth

Co-Founder

Jan 2017 – Feb 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Cambridge, MA

Co-founder and chief scientist for Deep Health (acquired by RadNet, NASDAQ: RDNT). DeepHealth was founded in 2017 with the mission of building AI vision systems to distill lifetimes of insights from medical experts into software to assist radiologists. DeepHealth developed multiple 510(k) cleared diagnostic AI technologies that have been deployed at scale.

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