Dr. Chekuri S. Choudary is a technical consultant with IBM Systems Lab Services. He has a doctorate degree in computer science and engineering, an application-oriented research background, and experience in multiple areas of computing including multimedia processing and retrieval, high performance computing, hardware design and development. His current efforts at IBM involve educating the customers on cognitive computing, conducting training programs on foundations of deep learning, implementing POCs, and optimizing the compute performance of deep learning workloads.