Prof. Vishal Misra is a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (CS and EE) at Columbia University and a Visiting Scientist at Google. He obtained his B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1992, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Umass Amherst in 1996 and 2000, respectively.nnAfter completing his Ph.D., Prof. Misra joined the Computer Science Department at Columbia University in 2001 and is a (full) Professor of CS and EE. He also co-founded (ESPN) Cricinfo as a graduate student in the early 90s. In 2011, Prof. Misra founded a data center company called Infinio, and have held visiting professorships at INRIA (Sophia Antipolis, 2009), Technicolor (Paris, 2009), Telefonica (Barcelona, 2009) and Google (2017-18). He continues as a visiting scientist at Google.