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The Marist College Board of Trustees elected Donna Dillenberger to the board during its February meeting. She will participate in her first meeting as a trustee in May.

Dillenberger has had a distinguished career at IBM, currently serving as IBM Fellow at the company’s Research Center in Yorktown Heights and chief technical officer of systems research for Hybrid Cloud. Her focus is on machine learning, counterfeit detection, cloud security and availability, and enterprise systems. In the past, Dillenberger has worked on machine learning models for financial, insurance, retail, and healthcare industries, and has designed new features for systems scalability and availability. She is the author of numerous research publications and holds multiple patents, becoming a Master Inventor at IBM. In recognition of Dillenberger’s work, IBM’s chief executive officer appointed her an IBM Fellow, the highest technical honor at the company. IBM Fellows are given broad latitude to identify and pursue projects. In the history of IBM, only 317 people have received such a distinction.

Dillenberger received her bachelor of science degree in mathematics from New York University and a master of science degree in computer science from Columbia University. She was an adjunct professor at Columbia’s Graduate School of Engineering, and was a lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Stanford University

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