Yogish Sabharwal received the PhD degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, in 2007, in the area of approximation algorithms in computational geometry. He has more than 19 years of experience in the areas of high performance computing, networking, and telecom. He has been with IBM Research for 13 years where he currently manages the High Performance Computing and Modelling group working on applying HPC to areas in deep learning, graph algorithms, and environmental science. He also holds adjunct faculty positions at Delhi University and Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, where he teaches courses in algorithms, combinatorial optimization, and parallel computing.