David Cadigan
Senior Technical Staff Member and Master Inventor, IBM
David Cadigan (BS '08) is a Senior Technical Staff Member and Master Inventor at IBM in Poughkeepsie, NY focused on memory development and memory system architecture. Cadigan drives the definition, test, and delivery of the memory subsystem for IBM’s POWER and Z Mainframe brands. He also represents IBM in standards bodies, such as JEDEC, developing next generation technologies and advocating for features and functions which best serve IBM designs. Cadigan has spent 18 years at IBM focused on the memory development space, having held several prior product delivery leadership responsibilities across Infrastructure brands. He holds over 20 patents issued globally.
Cadigan has been a board member of the UBEAA since 2022. He was a founding member and former chair of the SEAS Young Alumni Board. He was also named the SEAS Outstanding Young Alumnus in 2017.
He earned a BS degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University at Buffalo in 2008 and an MS in electrical engineering from Columbia University in 2015.
Cadigan served as a DAC member from 2017–20 and returned as a member in 2026.