Contact

Magdalena Balazinska
CSE 584
206-616-1069
magdacs.washington.edu
Data Science, Data Management & Visualization
Areas of interest: 

Databases, cloud computing, big-data analytics, scientific data management, machine learning and data management, image and video analytics, data management for VR/AR

Awards and Honors

  • Best Paper Candidate at VLDB 2017. Invited to VLDB 2017 special issue in VLDB Journal.

  • ACM SIGMOD's Test of Time Award (2017)
  • VLDB Women in Database Research Award (2016)

  • Jean Loup Baer Career Development Professorship in Computer Science and Engineering, 2014-2017.

  • UW CSE ACM Teaching Award 2012-2013.
  • Best lightning talk at XLDB (2012).
  • 2nd place in the Best Paper Award Competition for the Challenges and Visions track (2011).
  • The 5th International Open Cirrus Summit: Best student paper award (2011).
  • Google Research Awards 2011 and 2018
  • 10-year most influential paper award at WCRE 2010.

  • HaLoop paper invited to the Best of VLDB 2010 issue of VLDB Journal, VLDB 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).