Abu Sebastian is a scientist and technical manager at IBM Research – Zurich. He is one of the technical leaders of IBM’s research efforts towards next-generation AI Hardware and manages the in-memory computing group at IBM Zurich. He is the author/co-author of over 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals/conference proceedings and holds over 80 US patents. In 2015, he was awarded the European Research Council (ERC) consolidator grant and in 2020, he was awarded an ERC Proof-of-concept grant. He was an IBM Master Inventor and was named Principal and Distinguished Research Scientist in 2018 and 2020, respectively. In 2019, he received the Ovshinsky Lectureship Award for his contributions to "Phase-change materials for cognitive computing". In 2023, he received the Prof. L. K. Maheshwari Foundation Distinguished Alumnus Award from BITS Pilani. He is a distinguished lecturer and fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
