Primary Job Title Chief Scientist and Co-Founder Primary Organization IP Blox
Location Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Regions Great Lakes Gender Male
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Bruce is chief scientist at IP Blox – providing pattern recognition, algorithmic, and AI solutions for cybersecurity. He also holds a professorship at Stellenbosch University (Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research). Watson’s first Ph.D is in computing science and engineering from Eindhoven, after studying discrete mathematics and computer
science in Waterloo (Canada). He later returned to Eindhoven as chair of Software Construction. Watson’s second Ph.D is from the University of Pretoria. Parallel to his academic career, he worked as a compiler engineer at several companies (e.g. Microsoft), followed by engineering and architecture work on pattern recognition for security (e.g. for Cisco). Watson has been a presenter, participant and reviewer at several CyCons, mostly recently moderating the Quantum Computing panel at CyCon 2018.
