Aditya Akella
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Aditya Akella is a Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he leads the Wisconsin Internet and Systems Research (WISR) Lab, and a Visiting Scientist at Google. Aditya has also been a Visiting Researcher at Microsoft (2014), a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Washington (2013), and a Postdoc at Stanford University (2005-2006). Aditya has received numerous awards, including a Finalist for the Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists (2020), an H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship (2018), SACM Student Choice Professor of the Year (COW) Award (2017, 2019), the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Applied Networking Research Prize (2015), and the ACM SIGCOMM Rising Star Award (2014). Aditya received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University (2005) and a B.Tech. in Computer Science from Indian Insitute of Technology, Madras (2000).