Stefan Saroiu

Short Bio

Stefan Saroiu is a researcher in the Mobility and Networking Research group at Microsoft Research (MSR) in Redmond. Stefan's research interests span mobile systems, distributed systems, and computer security. For the past year, Stefan has also worked on building support for trusted computing in the ARM firmware. This firmware is required by Windows 8 in order to offer any trusted services, such as BitLocker or virtual smart cards. Before coming to MSR in 2008, Stefan spent three years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, and four months at Amazon.com as a visiting researcher where he worked on the early designs of their new shopping card system (aka Dynamo). Stefan finished his Ph.D. at the University of Washington where he was co-advised by Steve Gribble and Hank Levy. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his children who have recently started to correct his English with a Romanian accent.