Jason Nieh is Professor of Computer Science and Co-Director of the Software Systems Laboratory at Columbia University. He is Chief Scientist of CertiK. He has also served as a consultant to both government and industry, including as a technical advisor on the Microsoft Antitrust Settlement and as an expert witness before the US International Trade Commission. Nieh has authored over a hundred peer-reviewed papers across a broad range of areas, including operating systems, virtualization, computer architecture, thin-client computing, cloud computing, mobile computing, computer security, formal verification, multimedia, web technologies, and performance evaluation. Technologies he developed are widely used in major operating system platforms, including Android and Linux, the largest cloud infrastructure providers, including Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud, and ubiquitous Arm processors, billions of which ship each year. Nieh is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, IEEE, and John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Other honors for his research work include a Sigma Xi Young Investigator Award, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, a Department of Energy Early Career Award, numerous industry research awards, including those from Amazon, Google, and IBM, and various best paper and test of time awards, including those from MobiCom, OSDI, SIGCSE, SIGMETRICS, and SOSP. A dedicated teacher, he received the Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award for his innovations in teaching operating systems and for introducing virtualization as a pedagogical tool, which has become common practice at universities around the world. Nieh earned his B.S. from MIT and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University, all in Electrical Engineering. He is married to Belinda Nieh and they have four children, Joanna, Caleb, Emma, and Zachary. They live in New York City.