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).