Patrick’s area of expertise lies in the intersection of programming languages and distributed systems. Some of Patrick’s recent publications appear in ECOOP'12, ICDCS'12, DSN'12, Sensys'11, OOPSLA’11, and Middleware'11. He was PC co-chair for DEBS'12. He has served on several PCs for conferences like ECOOP, ICDCS, and Middleware. Patrick is a recipient of a NSF CAREER award among others. His work has been supported by NSF, DARPA, Northrop Grumman, Purdue Research Foundation, Google, and Amazon. He served as workshop (co-)chair of ECOOP'08 and '12. Patrick co-organized a successful SPLASH'10 workshop on Programming Support Innovations for Emerging Distributed Applications.