Bhuvan Urgaonkar is an associate professor of computer science and engineering at Penn State, where he has worked since 2005. He earned the M.S. (2002) and the Ph.D. (2005) degrees in computer science at the University of Massachusetts, and the B.Tech (honors) degree in computer science and engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (1999). His research involves applying ideas from distributed computing, resource management, scheduling, performance evaluation, and analytical modeling to the design and evaluation of data centers, networked systems, operating systems, virtualization techniques, and storage systems.

Urgaonkar is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2010), a research award from Cisco (2007), and has co-authored best student papers at IEEE MASCOTS 2008 and ICAC 2005 conferences. He is the co-chair of the performance track of the World Wide Web 2012 conference. Previously, he was a co-organizer of the First Workshop on Integrating Solid-State Memory in the Storage Hierarchy (WISH 2009), co-located with ACM ASPLOS 2009. He was the Web and Publicity Chair for the Third IEEE International Conference on Workload Characterization (IISWC 2007). He is a senior member of the ACM, a senior member of the IEEE, and a member of USENIX.