Mendel Rosenblum (born 1962) is an American computer scientist who is a professor of computer science at Stanford University and a co-founder of VMware, the company that pioneered virtualization technology for commodity x86 hardware. He earned a mathematics degree from the University of Virginia and a PhD in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, where he met his future wife and VMware co-founder Diane Greene. His research group developed SimOS, a computer simulation system, before he co-founded VMware and served as its chief scientist until 2008. He has been an ACM Fellow since 2008 for contributions to reinventing virtual machines, received the ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award in 2002, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009 for fundamental contributions to operating systems and virtual machines.
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