Ganesh Ananthanarayanan is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft. His research interests are broadly in systems & networking, with recent focus on live video analytics, cloud computing & large scale data analytics systems, and Internet performance. He has published over 30 papers in systems & networking conferences such as USENIX OSDI, ACM SIGCOMM and USENIX NSDI, which have been recognized with the Best Paper Award at ACM Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC) 2020, CSAW 2020 Applied Research Competition Award (runner-up), ACM MobiSys 2019 Best Demo Award (runner-up), and highest-rated paper at ACM Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC) 2018. His work on “Video Analytics for Vision Zero” on analyzing traffic camera feeds won the Institute of Transportation Engineers 2017 Achievement Award as well as the “Safer Cities, Safer People” US Department of Transportation Award. He has collaborated with and shipped technology to Microsoft’s cloud and online products like the Azure Cloud, Cosmos (Microsoft’s big data system), Azure Live Video Analytics, and Skype.