Recipient of NSF CAREER Award, ACM SIGPLAN Most Influential PLDI Paper Award, ACM SIGCOMM Networking Systems Award, IEEE Micro Top Picks selection, Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award (for junior faculty) and Eon Instrumentation Inc. Excellence in Teaching Award (for senior faculty) from UCLA Engineering, best-paper awards from PLDI, OOPSLA, and SIGCOMM, Microsoft Research Outstanding Collaborator Award, Okawa Foundation Research Grant, IBM Faculty Award, and Facebook Research Award.
Research Experience
Professor at UCLA Computer Science Department (since 2003), served as Department Chair (2022-2025). Amazon Scholar. Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Intentionet (team now at AWS). Visiting Fellow at Princeton, Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Research, Academic Visitor at Oxford.
Education
Ph.D.: University of Washington, Department of Computer Science, Advisor: Craig Chambers; B.S.: Brown University, Advisors: Paris Kanellakis and Pascal Van Hentenryck.
Background
Research Interests: software system reliability, applying programming languages techniques to address reliability challenges in other domains. Professional Field: Computer Science. Brief Introduction: Todd Millstein is a professor at the UCLA Computer Science Department, focusing on developing technology to make software systems more reliable and using programming language techniques to solve reliability issues in other areas.