Mihai Budiu is chief scientist at Feldera. He has a Ph.D. in CS from Carnegie Mellon University. He was previously employed at VMware Research, Barefoot Networks, and Microsoft Research. Mihai has worked on reconfigurable hardware, computer architecture, compilers, security, distributed systems, big data platforms, large-scale machine learning, programmable networks and P4, data visualization, and databases; four of his papers have received “test of time” awards. He has also received two technology transfer awards.