Arun Venkataramani is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He completed his PhD in Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin in 2004 and subsequently joined UMass Amherst by way of a Visiting Faculty appointment at the University of Washington. He received his bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay in 1999. His research interests are in networked and distributed systems and his current research focuses on mobile and wireless systems, content distribition, Internet architecture, and network security. He is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award and his work has received several best paper awards at venues including USENIX NSDI and ACM CoNEXT.