Tom Anderson

Tom Anderson is a Professor and the Warren Francis and Wilma Kolm Bradley Chair holder at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington. His research focuses on Software & Hardware Systems with expertise in Cloud Computing, Computer Networking, and distributed systems.

• Key Research Areas: Distributed systems, Operating systems, Computer networks, Multiprocessors, Security
• Awards: USENIX Lifetime Achievement, ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser, IEEE Koji Kobayashi, and others

As an ACM Fellow and former program chair of SIGCOMM and SOSP, Anderson has co-authored 21 award-winning papers in systems research. He leads the Computer Systems Lab and contributes to the UW Center for the Future of Cloud Infrastructure (FOCI).