He received his PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University in 2004. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2005 and the Xerox Award for Faculty Research (UIUC) in 2008. Indranil is involved in the Cloud Computing Testbed at UIUC, with funding from NSF, Yahoo!, HP and Intel. Indranil's research group DPRG works on distributed protocols and systems, with applications to large-scale distributed systems. DPRG research is funded by several NSF grants, including multi-disciplinary ones. For more information on DPRG, visit http://dprg.cs.uiuc.edu.