Mahesh Marina is a Professor in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh and a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute in London. Before joining Edinburgh, he had a two-year postdoctoral stint at the UCLA Computer Science Department. He earned his PhD in Computer Science in 2004 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has previously held visiting researcher positions at ETH Zurich and Ofcom London. He is a Distinguished Member of the ACM and a Senior Member of the IEEE.