Kristi Morton (née DiBennardo) I am currently a third 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 FlexMin: A Flexible Tool for Automatic Bug Isolation in DBMS Software In DBTest 2011: 4th International Workshop on Testing Database Systems, Athens, Greece, June 2011. Kristi Morton and Nicolas Bruno The Case for Being Lazy: How to Leverage Lazy Evaluation in MapReduce In ScienceCloud 2011: 2nd Workshop on Scientific Cloud Computing, San Jose, CA, June, 2011. Kristi Morton, Magdalena Balazinska, Dan Grossman, Christopher Olston ParaTimer: A Progress Indicator for MapReduce DAGs In ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), Indianapolis, IN, June, 2010. Experimental results fully verified by SIGMOD repeatability and workability review committee: here. Kristi Morton, Magdalena Balazinska, and Dan Grossman Estimating the Progress of MapReduce Pipelines 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 (pdf)      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.