Ashish Sharma co-founded and leads the Volta Team in Android that makes batteries last longer. His work on Android battery life improvements has been featured extensively in the press including TechCrunch, Time, Fortune, The Verge, and Engadget. Previously at Google, he developed the per-application monitoring and controls for network data in Android, and also worked on the Google Cloud Messaging infrastructure. Ashish received his B.Tech degree in Computer Science and Engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati and his M.S. and Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara.