Gabriel (Gabby) Silberman
Senior Vice President and Head, CA Labs

Gabby Silberman is Senior Vice President and Head of CA Labs. He is responsible for building CA's research and innovation capacity across the business, in collaboration with the Business Units and leveraging leading-edge research at universities around the world. CA Labs will leverage the talents of CA researchers worldwide and fund related academic research to support and further establish innovation in the company's key growth areas. CA Labs' research work will complement the existing research and development teams within CA's Business Units.

Gabby joined CA in 2005, bringing with him more than 25 years of academic and industrial research experience. He joined CA from IBM, where he was program director for the company's Centers for Advanced Studies (CAS). There, he was responsible for developing and adapting the CAS model for IBM research and development laboratories worldwide. Previously, Gabby was a manager and researcher at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center where he led exploratory and development efforts, including work in the Deep Blue chess project.

Gabby began his career in academia as a faculty member in computer science at the Technion ? Israel Institute of Technology. He was a visiting professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and serves on academic advisory boards at several universities and research institutes around the world. Gabby was a Council Member-at-Large of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and serves on editorial boards as well as conference organizing and technical program committees. He is also a member of the International Federation of Information Processing Working Group 10.3, and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Computer Society.

Gabby earned bachelor of science and master of science degrees in computer science from the Technion ? Israel Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

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