His research interests are in the areas of Operating Systems and Distributed Systems, with current focus on performance and resource management in Cloud computing, Data-intensive computing, and Mobile computing platforms. He received his B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kanpur, India, and M.S. and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He currently serves on the Editorial Boards of IEEE TCC and Springer Cluster Computing journals. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and IBM Faculty Award, an ACM Dissertation Award nominee, and a co-author on multiple Best Paper/Poster Awards.