Theodore L. Willke

Head of Vector Search, watsonx, International Business Machines

  • Joined July 2019

Names

Theodore L. Willke (Preferred)
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Ted Willke

Emails

****@intel.com (Confirmed)
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****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
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****@datastax.com (Confirmed)
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****@ibm.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Head of Vector Search
watsonx, International Business Machines (ibm.com)
2025 – Present
 
Head of Vector Search
Engineering, DataStax (datastax.com)
2024 – 2025
 
Senior Principal Engineer
Intel Labs, Intel Corporation (intel.com)
1998 – 2024
 
PhD student
Electrical Engineering, Columbia University (columbia.edu)
2001 – 2010
 

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor
2000 – 2010
 

Expertise

vector search
2020 – Present
 
deep learning
2013 – Present
 
graph learning
2011 – Present
 
parallel and distributed computing
2010 – Present