Dr. Kaoutar El Maghraoui is a Principal Research Scientist at IBM Research and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. Her work focuses on AI systems, accelerator architectures, hardware-software co-design, and efficient inference for large language models. At IBM, she has led and contributed to research spanning AI accelerators, compiler and runtime systems, model enablement, and performance optimization for emerging hardware platforms. She has extensive experience in distributed systems, high-performance computing, machine learning systems, and computer architecture, and has led research projects across both digital and analog AI hardware. At Columbia, she teaches graduate courses on high-performance machine learning, scalable LLM systems, and AI acceleration. Her work has been recognized through awards including Best of IBM and the IEEE TCSVC Women in Service Computing Award. She is also an ACM Distinguished Speaker and a frequent invited speaker on AI systems and emerging computing architectures.