Arun Venkataramani is currently a Professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He completed his PhD in Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin in 2004 and subsequently joined UMass Amherst by way of a Visiting Faculty appointment at the University of Washington. He received his bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay in 1999. His research interests are in networked and distributed systems and his current research focuses on mobile and wireless systems, distributed systems, Internet architecture, and network security. He is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award and his work has received several best paper awards including USENIX NSDI 2007, USENIX NSD 2008, and ACM Sigcomm CoNEXT 2009.