George Varghese worked at DEC for several years designing DECNET
protocols and products (bridge architecture, Gigaswitch) before
obtaining his Ph.D in 1992 from MIT.  He worked from 1993-1999 at
Washington University.  He joined UCSD in 1999, where he currently is
a professor of computer science.  He won the ONR Young Investigator
Award in 1996, and was elected to be a Fellow of the Association for
Computing Machinery (ACM) in 2002.   

Together with colleagues, he has 16 patents awarded in the general
field of Network Algorithmics.  Several of the algorithms he has
helped develop have found their way into commercial systems including
Linux (timing wheels), the Cisco GSR (DRR), and Microsoft Windows (IP
lookups).  He also helped design the lookup engine for
Procket's 40 Gbps forwarding engine.  He has written a book on
building fast router and endnode implementations called "Network
Algorithmics", which was published in December 2004 by Morgan-Kaufman.
In May 2004, he co-founded NetSift Inc., where he was the 
President and CTO.  NetSift was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2005.  
For the 2010-2011 academic year, he was the Distinguished Visitor in
the Computer Science department at Stanford University.  He is spending
the 2011-2012 year on leave at Yahoo Research in Santa Clara.