Mike Swift started as an assistant processor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2006. His research focuses on the hardware/operating system boundary, including transactional memory, devices drivers, and new memory technology. He grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts and received a B.A. from Cornell University in 1992. After college, he worked at Microsoft in the Windows group, where he implemented authentication and access control functionality in Windows Cairo, Windows NT, and Windows 2000. From 1998 to 2006 he was been a graduate student at the University of Washington, studying large-scale clusters, simultaneous multithreading and operating system reliability.