Krishna Gummadi
SAB member
Scientific director at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), Germany. He also holds a professorship at the University of Saarland. He received his Ph.D. (2005) and B.Tech. (2000) degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington and the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, respectively.
Krishna’s research interests are in the measurement, analysis, design, and evaluation of complex Internet-scale systems. His current projects focus on understanding and building social computing systems. His work has been widely cited and his papers have received numerous awards, including Test of Time Awards at ACM SIGCOMM and AAAI ICWSM. He received an ERC Advanced Grant in 2017 to investigate “Foundations for Fair Social Computing”.