Prior to his appointment at USC, he gained significant industrial experience working first at Intel research on hardware design and then at Nokia research on mobile phone technologies for a total of 6 years. His work on Energy-Per- Instruction throttling at Intel is implemented in Intel Core i7 processor to turbo boost performance at a fixed power budget. His work on Virtual-Trip-Lines at Nokia formed the foundation for Nokia Traffic Works product that provides real time traffic sensing using mobile phones. Murali's research at USC spans energy efficiency in mobile devices and reliability in server architectures (more info on his website http://www.usc.edu/dept/ee/scip/). Murali is a recipient of NSF CAREER award in 2010. His passion is a combination of teaching, working with his graduate students and traveling. Murali received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.