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Researcher

Jaroslaw Cwiklik

Jaroslaw Cwiklik's work spans AI and distributed software, from Apache UIMA and IBM Watson to fault-tolerant cloud systems. He submitted UIMA-AS patches in 2008 and joined the initial membership of the Apache UIMA Project in 2010. He also worked with IBM's team on Watson and its DeepQA architecture in 2010; the team received AAAI's Feigenbaum Prize in 2013. He was named on a patent for distributed UIMA cluster computing in 2016 and reported a UIMA-AS logging and exception-handling defect. The Apache Software Foundation elected him as a member in 2017, and he coauthored a paper on fault-tolerant cloud actors while affiliated with IBM in 2023.

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Timeline

  1. 2008

    UIMA-AS FindBugs patches

    He submits patches for UIMA-AS problems that FindBugs reports in 2008.

  2. 2010

    Initial Apache UIMA membership

    The board appoints him as one of the initial members of the Apache UIMA Project in 2010.

  3. 2010

    IBM's Watson DeepQA team

    He is part of IBM's team of researchers and engineers responsible for work on Watson and the DeepQA architecture in 2010.

  4. 2013

    AAAI Feigenbaum Prize

    The IBM Watson team that includes him receives AAAI’s Feigenbaum Prize in 2013 for showing that a synthesis of symbolic knowledge representation, natural language understanding, and statistical machine learning can achieve human-level performance in real-time factual question-answering.

  5. 2016

    A distributed UIMA patent

    The 2016 patent names him as an inventor of the Distributed UIMA Cluster Computing facility.

  6. 2016

    UIMA-AS logging defect

    He reports a UIMA-AS defect in 2016: the dd2spring converter should log misconfiguration exceptions at INFO and rethrow them. The issue closes as fixed in October 2016.

  7. 2017

    Apache Foundation membership

    The Apache Software Foundation elects him as one of its new members in 2017.

  8. 2023

    Retry orchestration for cloud actors

    He coauthors Reliable Actors with Retry Orchestration in 2023, a paper that proposes a fault-tolerant cloud programming model based on actors, retry orchestration, and tail calls. He is affiliated with IBM when the paper appears in 2023.

Career

  1. From 2017Apache Software FoundationMember
  2. 2013–2023IBM

From the biography.

  1. 23% of people shaping AI who left a university for a company later returned to a universityIncludes IBM. We estimate that 468 of the 2,011 people shaping AI who left a university for a company (23%) later returned to a university after a median of 5 years, and 163 of 829 (20%) made the reverse round trip.
  2. Google alumni have founded or led 133 other organizations, more than any other AI labIncludes IBM. We estimate that alumni of 17 major AI labs went on to found or lead 350 other organizations, including 226 they founded, and we trace 472 career moves directly between 23 labs since 2010.
  3. Universities keep AI researchers for a median of 6 years, compared with 2 years at frontier labsIncludes IBM. Across 15,811 dated work stays (6,529 people), median role tenure runs from 6 years at universities to 2 years at frontier labs. We compare all five organization types, starting decades from the 1970s to the 2020s, and the organizations that keep people longest.
  4. People shaping AI work at a median of 3 organizations over a career: 3 for university starters and institute and lab starters, versus 2 for company startersIncludes IBM. Across 6,853 people shaping AI with a dated work role, we estimate a median of 3 parent organizations over a career (mean 3.6), comparing role groups, starting sectors and starting decades from the 1950s to 2020–2026.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. [UIMA-1056] Fix some of the UIMA-AS problems reported by FindBugs - ASF Jira issues.apache.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Board minutes, 2010-03-17 | Apache Software Foundation apache.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. The AI Behind Watson - The Technical Article - AAAI aaai.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. AAAI Feigenbaum Prize - AAAI aaai.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. US9396031B2 - Distributed UIMA cluster computing (DUCC) facility - Google Patents patents.google.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. [UIMA-5117] UIMA-AS: dd2spring should log at INFO - ASF Jira issues.apache.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. The Apache Software Foundation Welcomes 64 New Members - The ASF Blog news.apache.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  8. Reliable Actors with Retry Orchestration for PLDI 2023 - IBM Research research.ibm.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  9. Reliable Actors with Retry Orchestration (PLDI 2023 - PLDI Research Papers) - PLDI 2023 pldi23.sigplan.org. Checked 21 October 2026.