Dr. Galen Hunt founded and leads the Microsoft team responsible for Azure Sphere. The mission of his team is to ensure that every IoT device on the planet is secure and trustworthy. Previously, Dr. Hunt lead the Operating Systems Group at Microsoft Research and pioneered technologies ranging from confidential cloud computing to light-weight container virtualization, type-safe operating systems, and video streaming. Dr. Hunt was a member of Microsoft's founding cloud computing team and helped build Microsoft's first cloud operating system. Dr. Hunt holds 98 U.S. patents, a B.S. degree in Physics from the University of Utah, and Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Rochester.