Mike Dahlin's research interests include Internet- and large-scale services, fault tolerance and security, operating systems, distributed systems, and file systems. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1995 under the supervision of professors Tom Anderson and Dave Patterson, and he joined the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin in 1996. He received the NSF CAREER award in 1998, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 2000, a departmental Faculty Fellowship in Computer Science in 1999-2002 and 2004-2007, a Cisco University Research Award in 2000, and IBM Faculty Partnership Awards in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, and 2005.

• SDIMS: A Scalable Distributed Information Management System for monitoring and control of large-scale distributed systems
• Unified Replication Architecture -- Develop a single set of mechanisms on which a broad range of data replication systems can be built for wide area, enterprise, grid, web, and mobile data systems.
• Byzantine Fault Tolerance and Beyond improve security and robustness by building distributed services that tolerate buggy, selfish, or malicious nodes

• WebOS and reliable wide area network services
• TRIPS: Tera-op Reliable Intelligently adaptive Processing System
• Shangri-La: Programming Environment for Next-Generation Network Systems
• xFS: Serverless Network File Systems and Cooperative Caching

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