Ashok T. Kumar

Ashok T. Kumar is an associate technical staff member in the Artificial Intelligence Technology and Systems Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He focuses on research in the architecture of software systems and solutions in the areas of cross-domain information retrieval, machine learning, and advanced data analytics.

Prior to joining Lincoln Laboratory in 2018, he was an advisory staff engineer at IBM with the Watson AI group, where he developed a variety of Watson-based analytic software frameworks and systems across various domains. He was awarded 15 patents in the AI space while working at IBM Watson and has 2 other patents in the data analytics field from his previous work in the industry since 1994. 

Kumar received his MBA degree specializing in entrepreneurship and negotiations from the University of Massachusetts. He received his Bachelor of Technology degree in electrical and electronics from the University of Kerala, India.