Aditya Akella is a Regents Chair professor of Computer Science at UT Austin. He obtained his Ph.D. from CMU and B. Tech. from IIT Madras. Prior to joining UT Austin, he spent fifteen years as a professor at UW-Madison. Prof. Akella works on improving the performance, reliability, and correctness of Cloud and Internet infrastructure. His research straddles the boundary between computer networking and adjacent areas such as operating systems, databases, and formal methods. Prof. Akella has won numerous awards for his research, teaching, and service contributions. Akella's research has impacted production systems run by some of the world’s largest tech companies.