Geeth de Mel

Geeth de Mel is a Senior Research Scientist and Manager at IBM Research Europe (UK), working at the intersection of AI, scientific computing, and sustainability. His work focuses on building AI systems that can understand, reason, and collaborate with scientific solvers to accelerate discovery. Geeth leads strategic research efforts on algorithmic innovations for knowledge-intensive discovery challenges in sectors such as Earth and space, materials, and climate resilience, working closely with NASA, STFC, and industry partners.

He earned his PhD from the University of Aberdeen in knowledge representation, semantics, and reasoning under uncertainty, followed by postdoctoral research at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL), where he led work on decision support and fusion reasoning. In 2013, he joined the IBM T. J. Watson Research Cente, contributing to semantically aware IoT systems, stream information interpretation, and policy automation.

At IBM Research Europe (UK), he now leads teams in Earth and space informatics, scientific foundation models, and knowledge-centric AI. His current research includes natural-language grounding for scientific problems, agentic workflows, scientific model orchestration, solver-aware AI, and domain adaptation for complex scientific and environmental systems.