Published extensively (including co-authoring the popular 'Datacenter as a Computer' textbook) and is a co-inventor on more than 100 patents. Recipient of the ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes award, Rice University's Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni award, and the IIT Madras distinguished alumni award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM, and currently on the board of directors for OpenCompute.
Research Experience
Worked at Google and HP, leading the design of hardware and datacenters, and has been involved in multiple impactful interdisciplinary systems projects.
Background
Currently an Engineering Fellow/VP at Google, where he is the area technical lead for hardware and datacenters, designing systems at scale. Prior to this, he was a HP Fellow and Chief Technologist at Hewlett Packard Labs where he led their research on systems and data centers. His work spans several interdisciplinary systems projects with broad impact on both academia and industry, including innovations in energy-aware user interfaces, heterogeneous multi-cores, power-efficient servers, accelerators, and disaggregated and data-centric data centers.
Miscellany
Active in teaching (most recently at Stanford) and mentoring (e.g., Google TechAdvisors), and is active in the broader community (most recently serving on the executive team for ACM SIGARCH and his local school district foundation).