Magdalena Balazinska
Selected Professional Activities
Conference and workshop organization:
- SSDBM 2013 pc chair
- 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).
- Program committee area chair: ICDE 2011 and ICDE 2013
- 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.
- Frequent program committee member at SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, CIDR, and various workshops.
Other community service:
- NSF Panelist.
- Associate Editor for the Systems and Prototypes Column, SIGMOD Record (June 2007 - August 2012).
- 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
- - 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
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