Prior to joining the faculty at Michigan in 1993, he was a Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He received both the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1987 and 1989, respectively. His research interests include fault-tolerant distributed computing, and network protocols and architectures. (http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~farnam)