George Varghese

George Varghese is the Jonathan B. Postel Chair in Networking at the Samueli School of Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles. A computer scientist with experience in industry and academia, much of Varghese’s career has been devoted to developing a faster internet. He is known for naming and pioneering the fields of network algorithmics, which primarily seeks to improve the speed of network routers and servers, and network design automation, which develops tools for operating and debugging networks. With colleagues, he has many patents in network algorithmics, and several algorithms he helped to develop appear in commercial systems like Linux, Cisco GSR and Microsoft Windows.

Varghese has served on the faculties of Washington University in St. Louis and University of California, San Diego, as a principal researcher and partner at Microsoft Research, and as President and CTO of NetSift Inc. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the Internet Hall of Fame, and is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. He won the IEEE Kobayashi Award for Computers and Communications and the SIGCOMM Lifetime Achievement Award for networking. His Ph.D. is from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.