IBM · Software Engineer Aug 2025 – Present
AI product engineering and open-source contributions, with a focus on Langflow core, backend components, and enterprise-scale use cases.
Edwin Jose
AI product & solution architecture
Software Engineer at IBM with a PhD in Computer Science from Western Michigan University. My work connects AI product and solution architecture, open-source engineering, and research in explainable quantum machine learning.
Experience
DataStax · AI Engineering Co-op Sep 2024 – Aug 2025
Langflow backend development, platform functionality, performance, and testing.
DataStax · AI Engineering Intern May – Aug 2024
Generative AI toolkit and browser-extension development using React and Plasmo.
Western Michigan University · Doctoral research & teaching From 2022
Quantum machine learning, optimization, and information retrieval research. Teaching assistance in programming, AI, machine learning, and NLP. PhD completed in 2026.
IIT Palakkad · Research Scholar Jan – Jul 2022
Natural language processing research with TensorFlow and BERT, including text classification and image-to-text generation.
HAILabs.ai · Co-founder & CTO Founded 2021
AI tutoring-system architecture and cloud platform development for personalized learning.
Cochin University of Science and Technology · Research appointments Oct 2020 – Dec 2021
Junior Research Fellow, Oct 2020 – Aug 2021: power-consumption anomaly detection. Research Fellow, Aug – Dec 2021: machine learning for underwater sound classification.
MyWays Life Layouts · Machine Learning Developer Intern Dec 2019 – Jul 2020
Natural language processing and machine learning for career recommendations, with deep-learning deployment on AWS EC2.
Selected open-source work
Langflow · Contributor
Agent systems, MCP integrations, backend components, testing, and contributor collaboration.
OpenRAG · Core contributor
Retrieval and orchestration, configuration, reproducible environments, and developer documentation.
Quoptuna · Founder & first-author researcher
Explainable quantum machine learning, hyperparameter optimization, backend and interface development, and documentation.
Education
PhD, Computer Science · Western Michigan University 2022 – 2026
Completed 2026.
MSc, Electronic Science · Cochin University of Science and Technology 2018 – 2020
First rank.
BSc, Physics, Mathematics & Electronics · Christ University 2015 – 2018
Selected publications
- Edwin Jose and A. C. Fong. Quoptuna: An Open-Source Framework for Explainable Quantum Machine Learning. IEEE INTCEC, 2025.
- Edwin Jose and A. C. Fong. Design and Development of an Open-Source Toolkit for Quantum Machine Learning. IEEE RASSE, 2025.
- Irene Kahvazadeh, Edwin Jose, et al. Development and evaluation of a modular experiential learning curriculum for promoting AI readiness. Education and Information Technologies, 2024 (first published online 2023).
Technical toolkit
Python · Langflow · LangChain · MCP · Hugging Face · Transformers · FastAPI · Flask · Docker · AWS · MongoDB · scikit-learn · TensorFlow · Keras · Optuna · Hyperopt · PennyLane · Qiskit
Recognition
IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (2026) · IBM TCAP Leader Award (2026) · IBM Open Source Strategic Committer credential · ICACCS Best Paper Award · IIT Delhi Social Innovation Challenge runner-up, Argus project.