Krishna Gummadi leads the Networked Systems research group at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) in Germany. He received his Ph.D. (2005) and M.S. (2002) degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle under the guidance of Professors Steven D. Gribble and Henry M. Levy. He also holds a B.Tech (2000) degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Krishna's research interests are in the measurement, analysis, design, and evaluation of complex Internet-scale systems. His current projects focus on (a) making Internet access infrastructures more transparent, (b) enabling efficient and cost-effective bulk content delivery in the Internet, (c) understanding the evolution of online social network structures and the dynamics of information flows over them, (d) leveraging social networks to design better information sharing systems, and (e) building more trustworthy cloud computing infrastructures.

Krishna's work on Internet access networks, online social networks, and peer-to-peer systems has led to a number of widely cited papers. He also received best paper awards at OSDI, SIGCOMM IMW, and MMCN for his work on Internet measurements and peer-to-peer systems.