Dr. Ricardo Bianchini is a Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President at Microsoft Azure, where he leads the team responsible for managing Azure’s compute workload, server capacity, and datacenter infrastructure with a strong focus on efficiency and sustainability.  Before joining Azure, Ricardo led the Systems Research Group and the Cloud Efficiency team at Microsoft Research (MSR). He created research projects in power efficiency and intelligent resource management that resulted in large-scale production systems across Microsoft. Prior to Microsoft, he was a Professor at Rutgers University, where he conducted research in datacenter power and energy management, cluster-based systems, and other cloud-related topics. Ricardo is a Fellow of both the ACM and IEEE.