George Varghese Author

George Varghese is a widely recognized authority on the art of network protocol implementation. Currently a Principal Researcher and Partner at Microsoft Research, he has served as a professor in the Department of Computer Science at UC-San Diego, he has previously taught at Washington University and Stanford University. Elected a Fellow of the ACM in 2002, he holds (with colleagues) 22 patents in the general field of network algorithmics. Several algorithms that he helped develop have found their way into commercial systems, including Linux (timing wheels), the Cisco GSR (DRR), and MS Windows (IP lookups). Varghese has written more than 100 papers on networking, computer architecture, genomics, and databases.