Mike Dahlin is an Engineering Fellow at Google where he works as the technical lead for Google Compute Engine. In over a decade working on the Google Cloud Platform, he worked with teams launching several generations of GCE’s products, improving reliability and efficiency across GCP, and leveraging cross-layer optimizations for scaling ML data centers.

Before joining Google, Mike was a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin, where his research focused on distributed systems, data replication, and fault tolerance. He also co-authored the textbook, Operating Systems: Principles and Practice.

Mike has been recognized for advances in distributed systems and operating systems research and development with numerous best paper awards and as an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. He is a past recipient of an NSF CAREER award, Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and University of Texas at Austin Faculty Fellowship in Computer Science.