Nick McKeown (PhD/MS UC Berkeley ’95/’92; B.E Univ. of Leeds, ’86) is
Faculty Director of the Open Networking Research Center. From 1986-1989
he worked for Hewlett-Packard Labs in Bristol, England. In 1995, he
helped architect Cisco's GSR 12000 router. Nick was co-founder and CTO
at Abrizio (acquired by PMC-Sierra, 1998), co-founder and CEO of Nemo
(“Network Memory”),acquired by Cisco, 2005. In 2007 he co-founded Nicira
(acquired by VMware) with Martin Casado and Scott Shenker. Nick is
chairman of Barefoot Networks which he co-founded with Pat Bosshart and
Martin Izzard in 2013. In 2011, he co-founded the Open Networking
Foundation (ONF) with Scott Shenker; and the Open Networking Lab
(ON.Lab) with Guru Parulkar and Scott Shenker.

Nick is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of
Engineering (UK), the IEEE and the ACM. He received the British Computer
Society Lovelace Medal (2005), the IEEE Kobayashi Computer and
Communications Award (2009), the ACM Sigcomm Lifetime Achievement Award
(2012), the IEEE Rice communications theory award (1999). Nick has an
Honorary Doctorate from ETH (Zurich, 2014). Nick's current research
interests include software defined networks (SDN), network verification,
video streaming, how to enable more rapid improvements to the Internet
infrastructure, and tools and platforms for networking research and
teaching.