Hari Balakrishnan

Hari Balakrishnan is the Fujitsu Professor of Computer Science at MIT. His research is in networked computer systems, with current interests in networking, sensing, and perception for sensor-equipped mobile devices connected to cloud or edge services. In 2010, Balakrishnan co-founded Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT) to make the world's roads and drivers safer. Today, CMT is the world's leading telematics and analytics provider, serving many millions of users in 25 countries by partnering with insurers, car makers, commercial mobility providers, and the public sector. Balakrishnan was an advisor to Meraki from its inception in 2006 to its acquisition by Cisco in 2012. In 2003, Balakrishnan co-founded StreamBase Systems (acquired by TIBCO), the first high-performance commercial stream processing engine. Between 2000 and 2003, he helped devise the key network QoS algorithms for Sandburst (acquired by Broadcom). Balakrishnan received his PhD in 1998 from the EECS Department at UC Berkeley, and a BTech in Computer Science in 1993 from IIT Madras, which named him a Distinguished Alumnus in 2013.