Gustavo Stolovitzky


Gustavo A. Stolovitzky is an Argentine computational systems biologist. He is an IBM Fellow and the Director of the Translational Systems Biology and Nano-Biotechnology Program at IBM Research.

Career

Stolovitzky received his M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Buenos Aires in 1987, and his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Yale University in 1994. In 1998, Stolovitzky joined IBM Research to work in the field of computational systems biology; he has since become the Director of IBM's Translational Systems Biology and Nano-Biotechnology Program. He is also an adjunct professor at Columbia University and a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Studies in Physics and Biology at The Rockefeller University. In 2008, he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Solovitztky has advocated the usage of crowdsourcing as a tool for scientific research.

Recognition

Stolovitzky has received the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corporation 's Pioneer Award for Great Minds in STEM and the World Technology Award in Biotechnology in 2013, and the Raíces Prize from the Argentinian government in 2017. Stolovitzky is also a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and has been inducted as a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the World Technology Network, Fellow of the American Physical Society, and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
In 2019, Stolovitzky was appointed as an IBM Fellow, the highest honor IBM bestows to its employees.