Aranyak Mehta is a distinguished research scientist at Google, where tenured since July 2007. Prior to this role, Aranyak served as a visiting scientist during a postdoctoral appointment at IBM from July 2005 to July 2007. Aranyak holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, completed in 2005, and a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, obtained in 2000.