Ethan Katz-Bassett completed his PhD in 2012 at the University of Washington, advised by Tom Anderson and Arvind Krishnamurthy, and then worked at Google as part of a great team tasked with making the mobile web fast. He has earned awards including NSDI Best Paper Awards, an Applied Networking Research Award, an NSF CAREER Award, and Google Faculty Research Awards. His research goal is to make Internet services reliable and fast.