Abhishek Chandra is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. His research interests are in the areas of Operating Systems and Distributed Systems, with current focus on performance, energy, and resource management in Cloud and Edge computing, Data analytics, and Mobile/IoT systems. He received his B.Tech. from IIT Kanpur, India, and M.S. and PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, IBM Faculty Award, Cisco Research Award, and ACM Dissertation Award nomination. He is also a co-author on multiple Best Paper/Poster Awards. Prof. Chandra has been on the Editorial Boards for IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, Springer Cluster Computing Journal, and IEEE Transactions on Computers. He is serving on the Steering Committees for IEEE IC2E (as co-chair) and ACM HPDC conferences. In addition, he has served in organizing roles for several conferences: as General co-chair for ACM HPDC 2022; as Program co-chair for ACM/USENIX/IFIP Middleware 2026, IEEE ICDCS 2021, ACM HPDC 2018 and IEEE IC2E 2018; and as TPC Vice Chair for ICDCS 2016, 2018, 2020.