He joined Northwestern in 2002, after receiving his Ph.D. from the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. Fabián is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award. He is the head of the AquaLab group at Northwestern, which researches systems issues in large-scale distributed computing. Fabián's research has been funded from various sources, including the NSF, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and Motorola. He frequently serves as part of program committees in leading conferences including ICDCS, ICAC and WWW, and is the founder and co-chair for the new Workshop on Hot-Topics in Autonomic Computing Systems. For a list of publications and more detailed information, please visit: http://www.aqualab.cs.northwestern.edu.