The EECS Department welcomes Prof. Magdalena Balazinska, Jean Loup Baer Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Washington.

Balazinska will present a talk entitled "TBA", on Wednesday, October 4 at 2:00 PM in the Ford ITW Room.

Abstract: TBA.

Bio: Prof. Magdalena Balazinska is the Jean Loup Baer Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. She's the director of the IGERT PhD Program in Big Data and Data Science and the director of the associated Advanced Data Science PhD Option. She's also a Senior Data Science Fellow of the University of Washington eScience Institute. Magdalena's research interests are in the field of database management systems. Her current research focuses on data management for data science, big data systems, and cloud computing. Magdalena holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2006). She is a Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellow (2007), received the inaugural VLDB Women in Database Research Award (2016), an NSF CAREER Award (2009), a 10-year most influential paper award (2010), a Google Research Award (2011), an HP Labs Research Innovation Award (2009 and 2010), a Rogel Faculty Support Award (2006), a Microsoft Research Graduate Fellowship (2003-2005), and multiple best-paper awards.

Hosted by: EECS Prof. Jennie Rogers