George Candea heads the Dependable Systems Lab, where he conducts research on the principles and practice of achieving predictable performance and energy efficiency in computer systems. His main focus is on real-world systems — both large- and small-scale — that face fundamental challenges lying beyond the reach of classic techniques.

In the recent past, George also served as CEO and later Chief Scientist of Cyberhaven, a cybersecurity company he co-founded in 2016 with four of his PhD students. Earlier, he was CTO and then Chief Scientist of Aster Data Systems (now Teradata Vantage), a big-data company he co-founded in 2005 with two Stanford colleagues. Before that, he held positions at Oracle, Microsoft Research, and IBM Research.

George is a recipient of the Mark Weiser Award (2024), the inaugural Eurosys Jochen Liedtke Young Researcher Award (2014), the MIT TR35 Young Innovators award (2005), and several Best Paper awards. He received an ERC Grant in 2011. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science (2005) from Stanford University and a B.S. (1997) and M.Eng. (1998) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.