Stefan Saroiu

Short Bio

Stefan Saroiu is a researcher in the Networking Research Group at Microsoft Research in Redmond. Stefan's research interests span large-scale distributed systems, mobile systems, and computer security. Before coming to MSR in 2008, Stefan spent three years writing papers, teaching, and advising students, which is pretty much what the job of an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto is. Before that, Stefan spent four months at Amazon.com measuring their workload and participating in the early stages of the design of their new shopping cart service (aka Dynamo). He is the author of four award papers, two of which being among the most cited articles in Computer Science published in 2002 and 2003. Stefan has co-chaired two workshops, has served on several program committees, and he is the current Information Director of the ACM SIGOPS. Stefan finished his Ph.D. in 2004 at the University of Washington where he was advised by Steve Gribble and Hank Levy.