Dr. Joseph M. Jasinski is currently the Program Director for Healthcare and Life Sciences Research at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Centerin Hawthorne NY.  In this role he is responsible for developing strategies and coordinating research efforts across IBM's Research Division in areas ranging from the use of information technology in payer/provider healthcare to computational studies in molecular biology.

Prior to his current position, Dr. Jasinski was world wide operations manager for IBM Life Sciences, responsible for day to day operations and strategy for one of IBM's fastest growing new businesses. He has also served as the Senior Manager of the Computational Biology Centerat IBM Research and managed and carried out research in nanotechnology, materials chemistry and chemical kinetics in his career with IBM.

Dr. Jasinski graduated from Dartmouth Collegein 1976 with an A.B. in mathematics and chemistry.  He received a Ph.D. in chemistry from Stanford Universityin 1980. Following post-doctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley, he joined the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Centeras a Research Staff Member in 1982.

He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.  He has authored or co-authored over 50 scientific papers and holds two patents.