Dr. Manish Bhide is the Distinguished Engineer and CTO for watsonx.governance -- a product that helps build trust and transparency in traditional ML, Generative AI as well as Agentic AI. Manish has a passion for innovation and is credited with conceptualising several technological innovations which have made an impact on IBM’s products and offerings. Manish is a prolific inventor and has filed more than 100 patents and has published more than 25 research papers in IEEE/ACM conferences. He has a PhD in Computer Science where his PhD thesis dealt with applying Machine Learning to solve problems of streaming data.


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