Richard Draves, Jr., PhD

Richard Draves is a partner architect on the Cosmos big data platform team at Microsoft, contributing to one of the world’s largest distributed data processing systems supporting analytics across Microsoft’s cloud and enterprise products. He spent the bulk of his career at Microsoft Research after joining as one of its first 20 researchers in 1991, working on operating systems, networking, and IPv6—co-authoring widely adopted IETF standards including RFC 3484 (default address selection for IPv6) and RFC 4941 (privacy extensions for stateless address autoconfiguration). He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1994, where he worked under Rick Rashid on the Mach kernel; his dissertation was titled “Control Transfer in Operating System Kernels.”