Magdalena Balazinska

Assistant Professor;-)

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Washington

Office: 550 Paul G. Allen Center (detailed mail and street addresses).
Phone: 206-616-1069
Fax: 206-543-2969
email: magda at cs dot washington dot edu

I am a member of the database group at UW and the co-founder of the Northwest Database Society (NWDS).


Short bio

Magdalena Balazinska is an assistant Professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. Magdalena's research interests are broadly in the fields of databases and distributed systems. Her current research focuses on distributed stream processing, sensor and scientific data management, and cloud computing. Magdalena holds a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2006). She is a Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellow (2007), received the Rogel Faculty Support Award (2006), and a Microsoft Research Graduate Fellowship (2003-2005).


Research

My interests are broadly in the fields of databases and distributed systems. My current work focuses on stream processing, RFID data management (graphical event specification, probabilistic event extraction, event management, applications), and scientific data management in cloud computing environments.

Current Projects

Past Projects


Students


Publications

Here's the complete list.


Teaching

If you are looking for our regular database group meetings and talks, they are under CSE 591D

Hosted talks at the Northwest Database Symposium (NWDS)


Professional Activities


Outreach Activities


Honors

  1. Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellow (2007).
  2. Rogel Faculty Support Award (2006).
  3. Microsoft Research Graduate Fellowship (2003-2005).
  4. USENIX Security Symposium: Best student paper award (2002).
  5. NSERC scholarship for graduate studies (2000-2002).
  6. FCAR scholarship for graduate studies (2000-2001).
  7. NSERC scholarship for graduate studies (1998-99).
  8. Fessenden-Trott scholarship (1995-1998).
  9. Canada Scholars (scholarship from Canadian government) (1994-1998).
  10. Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal scholarship (1994-1997).