James Mickens

Mickens worked as a member of the Distributed Systems group at Microsoft Research from 2009 through 2015.^[9][10] He spent one semester at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) through the MLK Visiting Professors program becoming a professor at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in 2015, where he was awarded tenure in 2019.^{[8][10][9][11]} In 2016, he was one of the researchers working on Polaris, a new system designed at MIT to decrease the loading time for webpages.^[12]

In 2020, Mickens was appointed to the board of directors of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.^[13] In 2021, he and Jonathan Zittrain began the Institute for Rebooting Social Media, a three-year-long BKC project to research and create new ideas to improve social media.^[14]

• Mickens, James W.; Noble, Brian D. (May 2006). "Exploiting Availability Prediction in Distributed Systems". NSDI'06: Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Networked Systems Design & Implementation. 3. EECS Department, University of Michigan. Berkeley, California: USENIX Association: 73–86 – via ACM Digital Library, Association for Computing Machinery.
• Netravali, Ravi; Goyal, Ameesh; Mickens, James; Balakrishnan, Hari (March 2016). "Polaris: Faster Page Loads Using Fine-grained Dependency Tracking". NSDI'16: Proceedings of the 13th Usenix Conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation. Berkeley, California: USENIX Association: 123–136. ISBN 978-1-931971-29-4 – via ACM Digital Library, Association for Computing Machinery.