Jaime Puente
AI Segment Manager, Data Center Group
Lenovo
Jaime Puente is the artificial intelligence (AI) segment manager at Lenovo, responsible for developing and managing research collaborations with universities and business partnerships with AI independent software vendors worldwide, bridging research and industry. Prior to joining Lenovo, Jaime spent 14 years as director of academic outreach at Microsoft Research, working on strategic research initiatives in Latin America and the United States. Before Microsoft, Jaime worked for Commerce One, a pioneering e commerce company, and before that he was a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral (ESPOL) in Ecuador. Jaime was a Fulbright Scholar for his early engagement with academia. His academic background includes an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University, an MBA and an Electronics Engineering degree from ESPOL, and an Educational Specialist post masters degree from Nova Southeastern University (NSU) in Florida. He holds a Ph.D. in Computing Technology in Education from NSU. His main research interests concern the use of artificial intelligence in academia and industry, statistical data analysis and high performance computing.
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