K. Mani Chandy is the Simon Ramo Professor at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. He received his Bachelors degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering and Operations Research in 1969. He was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin from 1970 to 1987, and has been at Caltech since then. Chandy has received numerous awards including the CMG Michelson Award, the IEEE Kobayashi award, the Babbage Award and several teaching awards. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. His research is on distributed systems, event processing, and performance analysis with an emphasis on smart systems and sense & respond systems.