Ricardo Bianchini

Ricardo Bianchini is a computer scientist specializing in server and data center power and energy management. He currently serves as a Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President at Microsoft Azure, where he leads the Azure Compute Capacity and Efficiency group. His work focuses on enhancing the efficiency and sustainability of Microsoft's online services and datacenters.

Bianchini was named an IEEE Fellow in 2015 for contributions to server and data center energy management. He was named an ACM Fellow in 2016 for contributions to power, energy and thermal management of servers and datacenters. He has published fourteen award papers and received the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation.

Education Bianchini received a PhD from the University of Rochester in the Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences in 1995.

From 1995 to 1999, he was a Research Associate and Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

Professional contributions Bianchini was a Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers University from 2000 for many academic conferences including ASPLOS, Eurosys, and ICDS.

Awards and honors 2014: Chief Efficiency Strategist, Microsoft Eduardo Pinheiro, Ricardo Bianchini, Enrique V Carrera, Taliver Heath "Load balancing and unbalancing for power and performance in cluster-based systems" (2001) Eli Cortez, Anand Bonde, Alexandre Muzio, Mark Russinovich, Marcus Fontoura, Ricardo Bianchini "Resource central: Understanding and predicting workloads for improved resource management in large cloud platforms" (2017) Pratyush Patel, Esha Choukse, Chaojie Zhang, Íñigo Goiri, Brijesh Warrier, Nithish Mahalingam, Ricardo Bianchini "Characterizing Power Management Opportunities for LLMs in the Cloud" (2024)