Magda Balazinska

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 big-data analytics, 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 an NSF CAREER Award (2009), a 10-year most influential paper award (2010), an HP Labs Research Innovation Award (2009-2011), a Rogel Faculty Support Award (2006), a Microsoft Research Graduate Fellowship (2003-2005), and several best-paper awards (2002, 2010, and 2011).

Research

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My interests are broadly in the fields of databases and distributed systems. My current work focuses on data intensive scalable computing, scientific data management, cloud computing, and stream processing.

Publications:

To see a list of publications, please see Publications.

Current Projects:

• Nuage: Data management in the cloud.

  In this project, we are developing new data management systems and techniques for handling large volumes of data using cloud-computing environments, with a special emphasis on scientific applications.

  As part of Nuage, we are also collaborating on the SciDB project, which aims at building an array-based, parallel database management system for scientific research. The UW-local part of SciDB is described here.

• CQMS: Collaborative query management.

  As scientists (and others) store, analyze, and share increasingly large volumes of data in data centers, they need tools to help them author, annotate, share, and reuse their data analysis queries. The goal of this project is to enable such support, which is lacking in commercial database management systems.

• Data Eco$y$tem: Data Management and Pricing in the Cloud.

  We study problems at the intersection of pricing and data management in emerging cloud-computing environments.

Past Projects:

• RFID Ecosystem: Experimenting with a pervasive RFID-based infrastructure.
• Lahar: Markovian Stream Processing.
• Moirae: Exploiting history in monitoring applications.
• PEEX: Probabilistic Event EXtractor for RFID data.
• FlowDB: Using relational databases in network forensic analysis.
• StreamClean: Making sense of a noisy world.
• HomeViews: Helping home users organize and share their data.
• Distributed stream processing with Borealis and Medusa.
• Study of user mobility patterns and network utilization in a corporate WLAN.
• Twine: s calable resource discovery system for pervasive computing environments.
• Infranet: Internet censorship circumvention system.

Students

• Nodira Khoussainova
• YongChul Kwon
• Kristi Morton
• Prasang Upadhyaya
• Emad Soroush
• Shengliang Xu
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Former Graduate Students

• Julie Letchner, Microsoft Bing Mobile
• Evan Welbourne, Nokia Research Palo Alto

Teaching

If you are looking for our regular database group meetings and talks, they are under CSE 591D.
The database reading seminar is CSE590Q

• CSE444 : Database Systems Internals (Spring 2012). NEW.
• CSE344: Introduction to Data Management (Fall 2011). NEW.
• CSE444: Introduction to Database Systems (Fall 2010).
• CSE599c:Scientific Data Management (Spring 2010).
• CSE303: Concepts and Tools for Software Development (Winter 2010).
• CSE544: Principles of Database Systems (Fall 2009).
• CSE444: Introduction to Database Systems (Spring 2009).
• CSE544: Principles of Database Systems (Winter 2009).
• CSE490R: Broader Impacts of Computer Science and Computer Science Research (Fall 2008).
• CSE544: Principles of Database Systems (Fall 2007).
• CSE303: Concepts and Tools for Software Development (Winter 2007).
• CSE544: Principles of Database Systems (Fall 2006).
• CSE303: Concepts and Tools for Software Development (Spring 2006).
• CSE599C: Hot Topics in Data Management Systems (Winter 2006).
• Hosted talks at the Northwest Database Symposium (NWDS).

Selected Professional Activities

Conference and workshop organization:

• SIGMOD 2012 demonstration chair
• Honorary treasurer for VLDB 2011.
• Co-organizer of the UW/MSR Summer Institute on Cloud Computing (August 2010).
• Co-organizer of XLDB4, the 4th Extremely Large Databases Conference and affiliated workshop (October 2010).
• Founder and co-chair of the Int. Workshop on RFID Data Management -- RFDM'08 (with ICDE 2008).
• General co-chair of the 5th Int. Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks -- DMSN'08 (with VLDB 2008).
• Program co-chair of the 4th Int. Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks -- DMSN'07 (with VLDB 2007).
• Steering committee of the 6th Int. Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks -- DMSN'09 (with VLDB 2009).
• Advisory board member for the SIGMOD 2010 Programming Contest.
• Program committee area chair: ICDE 2011.
• Program committee member: SIGMOD 2010, 2009, and 2007.
• Program committee member: VLDB 2012 and 2007.
• Program committee member: ICDE 2012 (demonstrations), ICDE 2010, 2009, 2008, and 2007.
• Program committee member: CIDR 2011 and 2009.
• Program committee member for workshops: HotCloud'10, DMSN 2011 and 2010. MobiDE 2009, 2008, and 2006, and NetDB 2006.
• Publicity co-chair for MDM 2009.
• Publicity chair for MobiDE 2006 and 2007.
• Program committee member for the SIGMOD'07 undergraduate scholarship program.

Other community service:

• NSF Panelist.
• Associate Editor for the Systems and Prototypes Column, SIGMOD Record (June 2007 - Present).
• Co-chair of the ACM SIGMOD New Researcher Symposium (at SIGMOD 2007).
• Co-chair of the ACM SIGMOD Life After Graduation Symposium (at SIGMOD 2006).
• Co-founder of the Northwest Database Society (NWDS). January 2006.

Outreach Activities

• Panelist at Grace Hopper conference in November 2011.
• Panelist at the 16th, 18th, and 19th Annual Women in Science and Engineering Conference.
• Speaker at the 2009 Engineering Lecture Series. UW College of Engineering. Title ``The Cyberspace Data Explosion: Boon or Black Hole''.
• Speaker at the Seattle Girl Geek dinner at the University of Washington. December 2009.
• Faculty speaker at the undergraduate research night in April 2009.
• Panelist at a Microsoft Research event on future careers for women who interned at MSR (Summer 2010).
• UW - CSE Direct Admits Seminar Lecture. October 2008.
• Microsoft Interns Talk advertising our Professional Master's program - June 2008
• Intel Research Experience for Undergraduates - 2008 and 2009
• CRA-W Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU) - Summer 2008 and 2009
• Engineering Open House 2007 and 2008. Demonstrating the RFID Ecosystem project.
• Direct Admission Visit Day 2008 demo of the RFID Ecosystem.
• 5th year anniversary of the Paul Allen Center. Demonstrated the RFID Ecosystem (October 2008).
• Travel Scholarship Reviewer for the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2007 and 2008.
• Program committee member for the SIGMOD'07 undergraduate scholarship program.
• Address to approximately 200 incoming freshmen potentially interested in engineering

Honors

• 2nd place in the VLDB Best Paper Award Competition for the Challenges and Visions track (2011).
• The 5th International Open Cirrus Summit: Best student paper award (2011).
• 10-year most influential paper award at WCRE 2010.
• NSF CAREER Award (2009).
• HP Labs Innovation Research Award (2009 and 2010).
• Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellow (2007).
• Rogel Faculty Support Award (2006).
• Microsoft Research Graduate Fellowship (2003-2005).
• USENIX Security Symposium: Best student paper award (2002).
• NSERC scholarship for graduate studies (2000-2002).
• FCAR scholarship for graduate studies (2000-2001).
• NSERC scholarship for graduate studies (1998-99).
• Fessenden-Trott scholarship (1995-1998).
• Canada Scholars (scholarship from Canadian government) (1994-1998).
• Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal scholarship (1994-1997).

Contact Information

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