Babak Falsafi is a computer scientist specializing in computer architecture and digital platform design. He is the founding director of EcoCloud at EPFL, an industrial/academic consortium investigating efficient and intelligent data-centric technologies. He is a Professor in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL. Prior to that he was a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, and an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He holds a Bachelor's in Computer Science, a Bachelor's in Electrical and Computer Engineering both (Summa Cum Laude) with distinctions from SUNY Buffalo, and a Master's and PhD in Computer Science from University Wisconsin - Madison.