Mendel Rosenblum

Mendel Rosenblum (born 1962) is a professor of computer science at Stanford University and co-founder of VMware.

Early life Mendel Rosenblum was born in 1962. He attended the University of Virginia, where he received a degree in mathematics. While at UVA, he was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa.

He graduated with a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, where he met his future wife and co-founder of VMware, Diane Greene.

Career Rosenblum is a professor of computer science at Stanford University. His research group developed SimOS.

Rosenblum is a co-founder of VMware.

Since 2008, Rosenblum is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to reinventing virtual machines", and had previously received the ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award (2002).

In 2009, he was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering for fundamental contributions to computer operating systems and virtual machines.