Anil K Goel is a Chief Architect at SAP where he works with the globally
distributed HANA Platform engineering team to drive forward looking
architectures, vision, strategy and execution for all SAP data 
management products and technologies. He oversees data platform related
co-innovation projects with hardware and software partners as well as
collaborative research and internship programs with many universities in
North America and Europe. His interests include database system
architecture, in-memory and large scale distributed computing, self-
management of software systems and cost modelling.

Anil earned a PhD in CS from University of Waterloo. He also holds
M.Tech. (CS) from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and B.E. 
(Electronics and Communications Engineering) from University of Delhi.