Dr. Avi Sil is a Research Scientist and the team lead for Question Answering algorithms for research and products in association with IBM Watson. He is also the Chair of the NLP professional community of IBM.

His research also includes Information Extraction: entity recognition and linking and relation extraction. He is a senior program committee member for major Computational Linguistics conferences including being an Area Chair several times. He has more than 12 US patents filed all in the area of Artificial Intelligence and its applications in various spheres.