Dinesh Verma is a computer scientist, an IBM Fellow working at IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center, where he conducts research on technologies at the intersection of the Internet of Things -IoT, Artificial Intelligence and Distributed Systems. He concurrently serves as the Technical Committee Chair/Chief Technology Officer of Enterprise Neurosystems Group, an open-source consortium focused on distributed enterprise AI.His current project is IT and wireless convergence, which looks at applications of IT technologies to improve wireless networks. He is also the U.S. Program Manager for the International Technology Alliance . He established the network science discipline in IBM Research and has shepherded his networking innovations into profitable offerings for System z, Tivoli and other IBM brands. He joined IBM Research in 1992, and has even created new disciplines and established alliances between academics, governments and industries to create several technologies that live well beyond the lab. He led an international team of 22 research organizations which was selected to form the International Technology Alliance in Network Sciences. The group's research has made its way into several IBM products, including Tivoli Netcool/IMPACT, and AIM's Application & Services Platform for Networks (ASPN). He has authored ten books on networking-related topics.https://www.linkedin.com/in/dcvermahttps://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-dverma