Dr. Gschwind is currently the Manager of System Architecture in IBM's Systems and Technology Group. The System Architecture team is responsible for Mainframe, Power and I/O architecture for IBM's products.

Previously, Dr. Gschwind has been a research scientist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and team lead for several teams which contributed numerous innovations in IBM's current and future product offerings. Dr. Gschwind's work has been focused on the on the design and implementation of novel high-performance architectures exploiting parallelism at all levels, and their compiler and tools support. Recognizing the importance of his vision for exploiting parallelism at multiple levels to drive the design of future computing systems, Dr. Gschwind was honored by InformationWeek as an IT Innovator and Influencer.

Dr. Gschwind was one of the lead architects for the Cell Broadband Engine, having contributed to the definition of both the Cell Synergistic Processor Element, and the Cell system architecture with coherent DMA from a shared system memory address space. In the course of the project, Dr. Gschwind served as a technical leader for architecture definition and as a member of the inter-company technical company team representing IBM (jointly with Jim Kahle, Chuck Moore, Marty Hopkins, Peter Hofstee). Dr. Gschwind also developed the first Cell BE compiler targeting the SPE to demonstrate key optimization techniques, and helped define the ABIs, integrated executable strategy, libraries and programming environment for the Cell BE.

Dr. Gschwind has contributed to numerous IBM products as design lead and member of the technical leadership team for several next generation microprocessors, as the leader for architecture definition for several IBM SIMD programming extensions (including extensions to the VMX instruction set in OEM systems, such as Microsoft's Xbox360), as architecture lead for the IBM PERCS project, and the evaluation of future microarchitectures for the IBM Power Architecture and mainframe systems and lead architect for the next-generation VSX architecture.

Most recently, Dr. Gschwind has served as Floating Point Architect and Lead for the BlueGene/Q system. In his current role, Dr. Gschwind is responsible for both the definition of a high-efficiency next-generation compiled SIMD architecture, and its implementation with previously unseen implementation efficiency in terms of area and power consumption, as well as a novel high-productivity industry leadership design flow.

In addition to his contributions to future IBM products, Dr. Gschwind served as a technical leader for IBM's dynamic compilation and very long instruction word architecture projects, and for the evaluation of power/performance efficiency as a leader of the low FO4 architecture project and working with the power-aware microarchitecture team.

Dr. Gschwind's contributions to IBM's technology leadership have been recognized with the honorary title of IBM Master Inventor and his contributions to several projects have been classified as Research Division Accomplishments. Dr. Gschwind is the recipient of 24 IBM Invention Plateaus, an IBM Best Research Paper award, and a variety of other corporate awards in recognition to IBM's technical and business success.

Dr. Gschwind is the Chairman of the IBM Research Computer Architecture Professional Interest Community. Dr. Gschwind will be General Co-Chair of the 2009 International Conference on Supercomputing to be held at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY and co-organizer of the 2010 Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT 2010) to be held in Vienna, Austria. Dr. Gschwind is also serving as Systems Design Track Co-Chair of the International Conference on Computer Design in 2009, jointly with Prof. Greg Byrd of North Carolina State University, and as Industrial Session Co-Chair of HPCA-2010, jointly with Dr. Ravi Iyer of Intel Corp.

Dr. Gschwind has served as Program Co-Chair for the ACM Computing Frontiers 2008, jointly with Prof. Gianfranco Bilardi of the Università di Padova, and as Processor Architecture Track Co-Chair of the International Conference on Computer Design in 2005 and 2006, jointly with Prof. David Brooks of Harvard University. In addition, Dr. Gschwind has served as a program committee member for ISCA 2008 (with Yale Patt, climbing the Great Wall), ISPASS 2008, MuCoCos 2008, PACT 2007 (at Bran Castle), IISWC 2007, dasCMP 2007, dasCMP 2006 and ISPASS 2004.

Dr. Gschwind was a keynote speaker at the ACM Computing Frontiers 2006 conference, at the PACT 2007 Workshop on Operating System support for Heterogeneous Multicore Architectures, the First Workshop on General Purpose Processing on Graphics Processing Units, and 8th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing.

Dr. Gschwind is currently serving as Guest Co-Editor of an upcoming Topical Issue on Hybrid Computing of the IBM Journal of Research and Development, jointly with Dr. Michael Perrone. Dr. Gschwind has also served as Guest Co-Editor of a Special Double Issue of Scientific Programming on High Performance Computing on the Cell Broadband Engine, jointly with Dr. r. Fred Gustavsson and Prof. Jan Prins.

In addition to his corporate contributions, Dr. Gschwind has taught ELE475: Advanced Computer Architecture at the Electrical Engineering Department of Princeton University.

Before joining IBM, Dr. Gschwind was Assistant Professor at Technische Universität Wien in Vienna, Austria where he conducted research on application specific processors, CAD support for architecture evaluation and implementation, FPGA-based rapid prototyping of microprocessors, and compilation techniques.