© 2014 International Business Machines Corporation IBM Ireland Lab – Innovation Project Office Science with Excellence & Impact The success of Industry-Academic

© 2014 International Business Machines Corporation© 2014 International Business Machines Corporation

IBM Ireland Lab – Innovation Project Office

Science with Excellence & Impact

The success of Industry-Academic Relations in Ireland

Case Study - IBM

Dr. Pat O’SullivanChief Scientist & IBM STSMInnovation Project OfficeIBM Ireland [email protected]

Wed 25th Feb, 2015


Brief Introduction : Dr. Pat O’Sullivan

Chief Scientist for Innovation Project Office @ IBM Ireland Lab (1,750 engineers)

Adjunct Professor at University of Limerick & Waterford Institute of Technology

10+ years partnering with Enterprise Ireland, Science Foundation Ireland, Industrial Development Authority & Universities across Ireland

Enjoyed dozens of collaborative R&D projects over the years with DCU & other IRL Universities

450+ filed patents, dozens of published papers, several awards/prizes/medals from R&D work

My Personal Passion : Science with “Impact & Excellence” and contributing to the R&D & Economic Success of Ireland.INC


IBM – DCU – Research Brazil Ireland (RBI)

IBM’s relationship with Dublin City University goes back many many years : DCU has forged a reputation as Ireland's University of Enterprise, through its strong, active links with

academic, research and industry partners both at home and overseas

DCU were very helpful in consulting with the IBM Ireland Lab as we moved from a Manufacturing remit 10+ years back, to a high value R&D exemplar today (in Cloud, Analytics, Mobile, Social, Security)

IBM have hired countless students from DCU over the years, and year on year we count on continuity of graduates & partnerships with the Univerity for key lab innovation growth plays

IBM and DCU have enjoyed several collaborative partnerships over the years, with several active today IBM and DCU view initiatives such as RBI as positive to leadership, collaborative R&D and building partnerships between countries & researchers

The IBM Lab were happy to support 4 RBI students supervised by DCU in 2013 & 2014


Research Brazil Ireland

Impact/Outputs : Positive relationships and partnerships POCs built and tested Paper submissions to IJCAI 2015 & SIGIR 2015 Published paper in Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures & Algorithms - IA^3 Other workshop, conference and journal papers making progress

2013 DCU/IBM Students : Nina Hanzlikova - Smarter Cities Visual Analytics, supervised

by Miles Turner (DCU) & Renato Cerqueira (IBM) Lijuan Zhou - Smarter Cities Visual Analytics, supervised by

Cathal Gurrin (DCU) & Renato Cerqueira (IBM)

2014 DCU/IBM Students : Marko Hans Weber - Optimal Resource Allocation &

Scheduling, supervised by Paolo Guasoni (DCU) & Bruno Flach (IBM)

Dasha Bogdanova - Deep Learning for NLP supervised by Gareth Jones (DCU) & Cicero dos Santos (IBM)



IBM Case Study On Science with Impact & Excellence

Quick thoughts on definition of “Impact”

Quick thoughts on definition of “Excellence”

Quick inside look at how IBM approach achieving both Excellence and Impact imperatives in conjunction with our partners


A few words on “Science with Excellence” – what does this mean ?

My own personal view from 15+ years of joint collaborations : Successful MSc and PhD graduates (ideally hired in to industry at the end)

Some Journal and Conference papers in high ranking peer review (a responsible balance)

Several patents filed (a filed patent is undeniable evidence of R&D, innovation & novelty)

Addressing a significant problem/challenge of interest to Gov, Industry or Society

Deep & meaningful collaborations between local and international R&S centres with a win-win for all industry and academic partners

Strength in partnerships and collaboration that gives rise to the above - and continue to grow in strength and outut following the above

Within Ireland, both Enterrise Ireland and Science Foundation Ireland have set a very positive stage and supporting infrastructure/framework for achieving science with Excellence and Impact

…well evidenced through the various programes, research centres and clusters established across Ireland, as well as the large number of industry partners involved


A few words on “Impact” – directly from our EU leaders in H2020

Jobs and employment growth in Europe

Increased innovation in Europe “originated in EU” leading to EU companies, growth, employment

Spin-outs, Spin-ins, new SMEs, growth in SMEs and MLCs in Europe

Responsible value to exchequer for EU funded R&D

Increased exports from EU to e.g. USA, APAC, etc

Predictability and confidence in economy, employment, finances, lending, growth, etc

Increased leadership, leadership, innovation & competiveness in Europe


Innovation Project Office(IPO) – IBM Framework for Collaborative R&D

IBM is one of Ireland’s largest employers – circa 4,000 staff across Dublin, Cork, Galway

IPO is the principal IRL Software Group interface to IRL & EU Universities, Gov & Funding Bodies for Collaborative R&D across 1,750 Staff

IPO Team is both results & impact driven, and measured to this (weekly)

We have enjoyed continued year to year support from our IRL Gov partners – e.g. EI, SFI, IDA have been both supportive and central to the remit, growth & success of the IBM Irl lab R&D mission

We have a positive track record of winning bids in IRL Gov Funded Collaborations over 10+ years

At the end of each project we circle back to report on “how we leveraged the investment”IBM recognize that “continuity in winning” follows “continuity in delivering”


Some key stats – focusing on the previous 5 years

In EI, SFI and IDA funded collaborations we focus on projects that address national imperativesProjects are carefully chosen in conjunction with academia, industry and Gov

IBM Lab stats/outputs from the past 5 years : 350% expansion in Ireland - from 500 software engineers to circa 1,750 today

Supported & Mentored SME Spinouts from R&D incubated at the lab

Supported Spin-ins, in turn helping growth/expansion of Ireland Lab Team and our reputation WW

Consecutive year to yeat Full Time job offers to PhDs & MSCs at the end of projects (which we see as important to the lab’s continued growth, expansion and competitiveness)

750+ patent filings – several jointly filed with University partners that we collaborate with

Dozens of peer reviewed journal and conference papers demonstrating scientific excellence

Stong & positive partnerships with Universities and Industries across Ireland

Active support for Ireland SMEs through leveraging IBM’s Partner World Program



To see Science with Excellence and Impact IBM emphasise 5 key areas :

a) Spend time in identifying the “right” project and “right” industry and academic leaders

b) Set and agree start & end TRL expectations up front (next slide)

c) Set off on a joint IP agreement, in turn making sure that work is truly collaborative with deep and meaningful collaborative contributions from both Industry and Academia

d) Guide a responsible balance between student time in the office and in the lab (for applied MSc and PhD projects we like to see 70% of time in the lab)

e) Implement a quarterly governance program that encapsulates all stakeholders, and measure “what we said we would do” against “what we are doing” and map to “what we plan to do” in the next quarter

Albeit this represents a large cost for Industry, this formula has consistently delivered both execellence and impact results from the lab


Commercial Impact

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Outset Calibration of TRL start/end goals is pivotal to expectation setting

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• Observation – very few research projects in Europe start out with the start and end TRL levels set/understood/agreed/promised

• We start with this basic Q in collaborative IBM/SFI/EI/University projects – key to setting expectations and laying a foundation for measuring concrete results


Innovation Project Office – IBM SWG/University Collaborations

Team Leaders - Led by MBA (team manager) & supported by IBM Lab PhDs

Successful Collaborations over the last 10 years :

20+ Applied Small, Medium & Large R&D Projects – e.g. EI, SFI, LERO, FAME, CVTR, Connect etc

Several spin-ins – in all cases the IP that we jointly develop with our Unversity colleagues is leveraged internally in some way(s) at the lab (and indeed externally by the University)

University Spinout Companies – 2 recent examples LogEntries, Qualisense

Patents – Circa 1,250 successful Ireland Lab patent filings, with several jointly owned/filed with Universities (in places where we jointly develop/collaborate we jointly file)

Published Papers - Dozens of journal papers, conference papers, technical white papers

IAB Involvement – Dozens, principaly on IRL, UK, EU, Gov, University, Industry & Academic boards

MSc, PhD, Post Docs – offered FT jobs at the lab


We measure yr/yr patent outputs at the Lab

In lots of cases patents are jointy filed with University Partners, in turn protecting commercial exploitation for Universities, Clients and New SMEs that we help and support

Filed Patents


Some past & present examples of University “Applied Innovation” projects at the Lab

Log Analytics – Log Correlation Solution to analyse TB logs in Multi-Tenancy Cloud solutions IBM, UCD, DCU – EI & SFI sponsored partnership Led to several published papers in peer review Led to 3 successful PhDs Led to Logentries private spinout company (core team was incubated at the IBM lab)

Voice/Video QOS – Tooling to instrument Voice/Video for Unified Telephony products IBM, TSSG & Maynooth - SFI sponsored partnership Led to 20+ patent filings Led to several published papers in peer review Led to 4 applied MSc graduates Led to Qualisense spinout opportunity that is currently being explored with Enterprise Ireland

Asset Utilization and Efficiency– instrumenting IBM X/P/Z/I capital assets on utilization and efficiency axes to save IBM $0.5B in capital purchases per annum

IBM, University of Limerick, UCD – EI & SFI sponsored partnership Led to 20+ patent filings Led to several published papers in peer review Led to 2 successful PhDs Aspirations for a commercial industry solution further down the road


Closing comments (ref: EU) on Science with Excellence & Impact

Our EU Leaders are now recalibrating EU funding programs to see Impact in H2020 General view is that Framework 5,6,7 was a “Large R” and “Small D” in R&D

We learned that an EU Commission led study highlighted that the value to exchequer & EU taxpayer from FP7’s multi billion Euro spend was not what was hoped

Owed to this, H2020 is now configured to be far more applied, and impact focused/measured

To see Impact the EU have recognized that consortiums/partnerships need to have a far larger percentage of projects Industry led & driven, with a discernible focus on dissemination and impact

The key buzz words in EU funded projects today is “Impact” and “Dessimination”

Enterprise Ireland and Science Foundation Ireland continue to measuring excellence and impact imperatives in support of demonstrating value to exchequer/taxpayer for €€€ spent

IRL Gov have also been espousing industry led R&D for some time –positive !! IBM see continuity of this leadership as key to meeting indigenous excellent & impact goals


Dr. Pat O’SullivanChief Scientist & IBM STSM, Innovation Project Office, IBM Ireland Lab [email protected] - +353-86-6092002

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