Dr. Hubertus Franke is a Distinguished Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J.Watson Research Center since 1993. His area of current work and interests are the area of operating systems, virtualization, processor architectures, cloud runtimes and security. Some time back he has also worked in the area of HPC middleware, compilers and robotics. He was active in the Linux kernel in the first decade of this millennium, working on scalable schedulers, NUMA memory management and introduced futexes and precursors of today's namespaces and cgroups. He graduated with a Diplom Informatik degree (computer science) from the University of Karlsruhe (now KIT), Germany in 1987. He obtained a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University in 1992. He authored / co-authored over 130 publications and holds over 150 patents. He is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and an IBM Master Inventor. He is an ACM Distinguished Engineer. Since 2011 he has also been an Adjunct Professor at the New York University, year round teaching graduate operating system classes.