kristi-sandboarding Kristi Morton (née DiBennardo)


I am currently a second year computer science PhD student at the University of Washington. My general research interests are in databases and programming languages.  I work with Magdalena Balazinska and Dan Grossman. Check out our research site.

I am an AT&T Labs Fellowship recipient and interned at AT&T's Shannon Laboratory over the summer of 2006, where I worked on a distributed extension of XQuery.  I had the pleasure of doing this research with Trevor Jim and Mary Fernandez.

I am an alumna of Rice University in Houston, Texas, and the University of Texas at Austin, and a former employee of Motorola/Freescale Semiconductor in Austin, Texas.  At Freescale, I worked on the GNU C Compiler (GCC), where I added backend support and optimizations for various embedded PowerPC architectures.


Photo of me sandboarding in Oregon

Publications
Estimating the Progress of MapReduce Pipelines
To Appear in 26th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Long Beach, CA, March, 2010.
Kristi Morton, Abram Friesen, Magdalena Balazinska, and Dan Grossman

DXQ: A Distributed XQuery Scripting Language
International Workshop on XQuery Implementation, Experience, and Perspectives (XIME-P), 2007
Mary F. Fernandez, Trevor Jim, Kristi Morton, Nicola Onose, Jerome Simeon

Highly Distributed XQuery with DXQ
International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2007
Mary F. Fernandez, Trevor Jim, Kristi Morton, Nicola Onose, Jerome Simeon

Technical Reports
Orc-X: Combining Orchestrations and XQuery
The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences, December 2007, Report# TR-07-63. 
Kristi Morton, David Kitchin, William Cook

Master's Thesis
Orc-X: Combining Orchestrations and XQuery
The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences, May 2008.

CV
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Other interests
    Percussion & cacophony
    During my undergrad days at Rice, I played bass drum in the Marching Owl Band (MOB). I moonlight as a drummer in the University of Washington CSE Band.  Check out our videos: full, YouTube.