Ratul Mahajan

Ratul Mahajan is an Indian American computer systems researcher and academic. He is an associate professor at the University of Washington, where he also co-directs the Center for the Future of Cloud Infrastructure, and works as an Amazon Scholar with Amazon Web Services. His research focuses on improving cloud computing and large-scale computer systems through new architectures, tools, and network management approaches.

Mahajan's work has received multiple awards, including the 2005 IEEE William R. Bennett Prize, the 2009 Rising Star Award from the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communications (SIGCOMM), the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) Honorable Mention Award in 2011, the ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Award in 2014, the Microsoft Significant Contribution Award in 2016, the Best Dataset Award at the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) in 2016, and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)'s Applied Networking Research Prize in 2024. He was named as an ACM Fellow in the 2025 class of fellows.